Health mandates-CDC and WHO jurisdiction in Wyoming.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about what happens if there is another disease outbreak after July 1, 2024.

Health Mandates: CDC and WHO Jurisdiction

The bill prohibits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) from making health mandates or requirements related to masks, vaccines, or medical testing for COVID-19 in Wyoming.

What This Bill Does

• Prohibits the CDC and WHO from having jurisdiction over health mandates or requirements related to masks, vaccines, or medical testing for COVID-19 in Wyoming.
• Specifies that any guidance or recommendations provided by these organizations regarding mask, vaccine, or medical testing requirements for COVID-19 shall not be binding in Wyoming.

Who It Names or Affects

• People and businesses in Wyoming who might follow health advice from the CDC or WHO.
• The CDC and WHO when they try to give health guidance related to masks, vaccines, or medical testing for COVID-19 in Wyoming.

Terms To Know

Health mandates

Rules that require people to do certain things, like getting vaccinated or wearing masks, to protect public health.

Jurisdiction

The authority of a government body to make and enforce rules in a specific area.

Limits and Unknowns

• This bill only affects the CDC and WHO; other organizations might still be able to give health advice.
• It does not specify what happens if there is another disease outbreak after July 1, 2024.
• The bill did not pass in its session.

Current Bill Text

24LSO-0485
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0485
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0091

Health mandates-CDC and WHO jurisdiction in Wyoming.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Ward, Allemand, Angelos, Bear, Haroldson, Hornok, Jennings, Locke, Pendergraft, Penn and Rodriguez-Williams and Senator(s) Bouchard, Hutchings, Ide, McKeown and Steinmetz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting health mandates and requirements by specified federal and nongovernmental health organizations; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 35
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1001 is created to read:

ARTICLE 10
PROHIBITED HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS

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Consideration and compliance with specified health organizations; limitations.

The United States centers for disease control and prevention and the World Health Organization shall have no jurisdiction in Wyoming and any requirements, mandates, recommendations, instructions or guidance provided by either organization shall not be binding in this state to justify any mask, vaccine or medical testing requirements for COVID
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19 and any variant thereof and shall have no force or effect in Wyoming.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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(END)

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