Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits medical mandates under certain conditions in Idaho, effective July 1, 2025.

Highlights:

• Prohibits businesses, governments, and schools from requiring medical interventions for employment, admission to venues, transportation, or providing products or services in Idaho (Sec. 1-4).

• Extends these provisions to schools in Idaho including private or public schools and colleges, universities, and trade schools to prohibit them from requiring medical interventions for school attendance, employment, or entrance into campus or school buildings (Sec. 1-4).

• Defines “medical interventions” to include a procedure, treatment, device, drug injection, medication, or action taken to diagnose, prevent, or cure a disease or alter the health or biological function of an individual (Sec. 1-4).

• Establishes language specifying that the bill wouldn’t overrule existing powers of school districts, or school board trustees as already granted in state law (Sec. 1-4).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill declare an emergency and shall take effect beginning July 1, 2025 (Sec. 5).

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