Protect medical vaccine exemptions for school
Relates to the protection of medical exemptions from immunizations required for school attendance. Children with medical reasons to skip a vaccine should keep their place in school.
Medical freedom
Protect medical freedom
Relates to mandating or compelling individuals to undergo medical procedures, including vaccination. No one should be compelled to undergo a medical procedure against their will.
Right to try individualized treatments
Enacts the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments Act, allowing a manufacturer to make an individualized investigational treatment available to eligible patients. Patients and their doctors, not the state, should decide which treatments to try.
Ban required medical interventions
Provides that no person may require an individual to undergo a medical intervention as a condition of employment, entrance, admission, compensation, benefits, or participation, or punish someone who refuses. Also prohibits adding a chemical to a public water supply in certain circumstances. No one should lose a job, schooling, or access to public life for declining a medical intervention.
Protect workers who refuse vaccines
Provides that an employer may require an immunization only if it respects the employee’s right to refuse. It protects employees from coercion or adverse action for refusing, with a $5,000 civil penalty per violation. Workers should never have to choose between their livelihood and their own medical decisions.
End fluoride in public water
Would prohibit the use of fluoride additives in public water supplies. People should choose for themselves whether to take fluoride, not receive it through the tap.
Stop local bans on public gatherings
Removes the authority of county or joint boards of health and local health officers to prohibit public gatherings to control infectious disease. Health officials should not be able to shut down worship, meetings and family gatherings by order.
Vaccine exemptions for clinical students
Addresses vaccination exemptions for students in clinical rotations and which postsecondary schools qualify for Iowa tuition grants, with civil penalties. CODR supports protecting exemptions for students and is watching the details of how this bill treats them.
Idaho Medical Freedom Act
Establishes the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. No one should be forced into a medical intervention to work, learn, or take part in public life.
Medical mandates provisions
Would establish provisions regarding medical mandates. CODR is watching how these changes would affect protections against medical mandates.