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Idaho Legislature – VOTE YES on H0574 - Medical mandates (Posted: 02/13/26)

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Summary (ai assisted)

H0574 creates true health and medical freedom in Idaho – no mandates for anyone, without exception. This amazing bill restores medical freedom for all Idahoans (and serves as a model for the rest of America) by:

  1. Adding definitions and explicit preemption of medical intervention mandates (details below).

  2. Repealing school and daycare vaccine mandate language.

  3. Changing the immunization reminder information system back to opt in, as it was when the reminder system was created.

  4. Makes important updates and improvements to the Medical Freedom Act (S1210, passed in 2025), including:

    • Adds a private right of action for a person whose rights are violated.

    • Removes several restrictive references to federal law.

    • Removes references to travel, medicare, and medicaid exemptions.

    • Removes requirements to submit personal medical data for school attendance, enrollment, entry, or employment.

H0574 has no fiscal impact on Idaho’s budget.

Details of new sections 39-4801 and 39-4802

Definitions (Section 39-4801)

  • Daycare: Refers to a daycare center or facility under Chapter 11, Title 39, Idaho Code, or any regulated by a state political subdivision.

  • Medical intervention: Includes medical procedures, treatments, devices, drugs, injections, vaccines, immunizations, medications, or actions to diagnose, prevent, or cure disease or alter health or biological function.

  • Political subdivision: Encompasses any county, city, district, department, agency, board, or other state political entity.

  • School: Covers public, private, or parochial preschools; kindergartens, elementary, or secondary schools; postsecondary institutes such as trade schools, colleges, and universities; or other primary, secondary, or higher learning institutes in Idaho, including governing bodies or administrators.

Preemption of Medical Intervention Mandates (Section 39-4802)

The legislature finds that uniform laws prohibiting medical intervention mandates are necessary to preserve medical freedom for individuals and for parents and guardians of minor children, consistent with Section 1, Article I of the Idaho state constitution. The legislature intends to wholly occupy the field of medical intervention laws within Idaho.

Key points:

  1. Except as authorized by state statute, no political subdivision or school may adopt or enforce laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, or policies that:

    • Require, mandate, advise, recommend, or encourage medical interventions.

    • Limit or restrict access to facilities or services, including schools or daycares, based on declining or not receiving a medical intervention.

  1. Null and Void: Any violating law, rule, regulation, ordinance, or policy is null, void, and without effect.

  2. Enforcement: Includes injunctive relief by the attorney general or county prosecuting attorney.

  3. Violations: If a political subdivision violates this chapter, the attorney general or prosecuting attorney receives attorney's fees and costs for enforcement.

Reason for Recommendation to VOTE YES

First, our Constitutions securing our unalienable rights…

Article I, Section 1, Idaho Constitution

SECTION 1. INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF MAN. All men are by nature free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property; pursuing happiness and securing safety. tinyurl.com/3fn43565

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United States Declaration of Independence, Paragraph 2

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. tinyurl.com/3wmnx6pr

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United States Constitution, Tenth Amendment

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. tinyurl.com/n7fmrjf2

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Second, everything else…

COVID was a wake-up call for all about how totalitarian, utilitarian approaches to “public health” can destroy a country and an entire world. Mandates for masks, “vaccine” shots (which harmed and killed many) and other medical interventions, along with discrimination, job and business losses, denial of life-saving drugs, early treatments, and medical procedures, harmful “standard of care” hospital procedures (e.g., remdesivir and ventilators, often administered for financial incentives and against a patient or family’s wishes), and even jail time were the rule, not the exception. Unbelievably, these mandates still continue in many parts of the country.

Over decades and even centuries, many mandated or generally enforced public-health medical interventions have turned out to be flat wrong.

Examples from the past:

  • Lobotomies to cure mental illness.

  • Blood letting and tobacco to cure what ails you.

  • Denial of need for medical professionals to wash their hands before touching patients (many patients ended up dying of sepsis on maternity wards).

All the above examples were considered “standard of care” at one time. Those who opposed or questioned them were denigrated, persecuted, and even killed. But the skeptics were proven right, often decades after speaking out against the practices.

Another example from our time is the widely-held belief that vaccines (and often vaccines alone) are required for public and individual health and safety. Yet our country’s citizens – including its children – are among the sickest in the world. The truth is that most diseases were eradicated or on the wane before their targeted vaccines were in widespread use, some became worse or more prevalent after vaccine release, many had successful early and even late-stage treatments, and some had no vaccines but were reduced or eliminated by such measures as clean water, clean air, better food and nutrition, reduced pesticide spraying, vermin control, and less crowded living conditions.

As time and research continue, we now know that forcing people – including children – to take vaccines or other medical interventions for access to school, employment, travel, and more leads to loss of trust in public health, financial and medical suffering, chronic disease, and loss of individual autonomy. Often these medical interventions are administered without proper informed consent, are coerced, and are tracked and traced.

No one should be mandated to take any medical intervention whatsoever; every individual or parent must have the right to choose for themselves what goes into their own bodies. No elected or unelected official, and no medical licensing or advocacy group has the right to make these choices for us. Finally, no one should monitor or share our use of medical interventions without our express permission.

S1210 (2025) was the groundbreaking medical freedom bill that set Idaho front and center for America in re-establishing our right to choose what medical interventions they undergo. S1210 had some limitations, but was an earth shattering first step.

Now, H0574, carried by Rep. Rob Beiswenger and based on work by Leslie Manookian from Health Freedom Defense Fund and others, takes medical freedom to the ultimate level. In fact, H0574 is now a model for legislation in other states whose people treasure their rights to bodily autonomy.

Did you Know?

A large Medical Freedom Act Coalition – led by Leslie Manookian’s Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) – has formed to end vaccine and medical mandates in America (tinyurl.com/b2t7rw7a).The coalition’s goal is “no mandates for everyone, without exception.” And this coalition is using Idaho’s bill as its model for other bills in legislatures throughout the country.

By working together across organizations and states, we are supporting state-led efforts to ensure medical decisions remain between individuals, families, and their healthcare providers—free from coercion. No American should fear that their medical choices will impact their right to live a normal life – Leslie Manookian, Founder of HFDF.

Please VOTE YES on H574. By doing so, you will ensure that Idaho and Idahoans will be forever free to choose medical interventions for themselves and not have their private information retained or shared without their permission.

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