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ID HCR024
Concurrent Resolution
Status
11/15/2021
Primary Sponsor
Ways and Means Committee
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AI Summary
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Authorizes the Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives and President Pro Tempore of the Idaho Senate to engage counsel to sue the federal government to have federal courts declare COVID-19 vaccination mandates unlawful.
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Objects to President Biden's September 9, 2021 executive orders and OSHA directive requiring employers with 100 or more employees to ensure workforce vaccination or mandate weekly negative testing for unvaccinated workers or termination.
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Asserts that vaccination policy authority belongs to Idaho, the Department of Labor lacks legal authority to issue the mandates, and cooperative federalism principles require the federal government not to impose workplace vaccination mandates.
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Seeks to enjoin the federal vaccine mandates or prevent them from having any effect on Idaho employers and employees.
Legislative Description
Stating findings of the Legislature and authorizing the Speaker and the Pro Tempore to engage legal counsel to sue the Biden Administration in federal court to have the vaccine mandates invalidated.
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Last Action
Read second time; Filed for Third Reading
11/16/2021