Bill > H0308

This bill adds a new chapter to existing Idaho law to enact the Medical Ethics Defense Act. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. It protects the right of conscience for medical practitioners, health care institutions, and health care payers, allowing them to decline to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service that violates their conscience, whether based on religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. 2. It prohibits discrimination against medical practitioners, health care institutions, or health care payers for exercising their right of conscience, and provides civil remedies and whistleblower protections for those who report violations. 3. It includes specific provisions for religious medical practitioners, institutions, and payers to make employment, staffing, and other decisions consistent with their religious beliefs. 4. It repeals an existing section of Idaho law and declares an emergency, allowing the new law to take effect immediately upon passage and approval.

Health and Social Services

Health and Welfare Committee (House)

https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/H0308/