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ID SJM106

JM

Status

Engrossed

3/29/2010

Primary Sponsor

Unknown

Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Idaho Legislature urges Congress to propose a Twenty-eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting Congress from requiring citizens to enroll in or purchase health care insurance.

  • Amendment language would prevent Congress from penalizing citizens who decline to purchase or participate in any health care insurance program.

  • Memorial argues that states, not the federal government, should primarily regulate health insurance markets and that federal health insurance regulation would be inefficient and costly.

  • Secretary of the Senate directed to forward copies of this memorial to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, Idaho's congressional delegation, and presiding officers of all state legislatures.

Legislative Description

Stating findings of the Legislature urging Congress to take action forthwith to amend the United States Constitution by adding a Twenty-eighth Amendment to provide that Congress shall make no law requiring citizens of the United States to enroll in, participate in or secure health care insurance or to penalize any citizen who declines to purchase or participate in any health care insurance program.

HEALTH INSURANCE

Last Action

To Secretary of State

3/29/2010

Committee Referrals

State Affairs3/29/2010

Full Bill Text

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