Senate Bill 1430 Summary

• Changes language from "declared" to "proclaimed" when describing the governor's authority to establish a state of emergency or state of war emergency for public health purposes.

• Modifies mandatory medical examinations and treatment orders to "encourage, when appropriate" rather than mandate medical examinations, treatment, and vaccination during applicable emergencies.

• Adds requirement that isolation and quarantine orders specify a maximum duration of thirty days while persons are infected and contagious.

• Establishes new threshold criteria requiring at least 3.5% of a county's population to be confirmed infected and a death rate greater than 3.5% before measures for highly contagious and highly fatal diseases can be applied to that county.

• Defines "highly contagious and highly fatal disease" as a virus infecting at least 3.5% of the state's population in the preceding six months with a death rate of at least 3.5%.