Relating to: local health officer authority to mandate business closure to control communicable disease.
AB 756 repeals a specific statute (252.03(2j)) that granted local health officers the authority to mandate business closures to control communicable diseases. This bill directly affects local health officials, removing their existing legal power to order such closures, and impacts businesses that could have been subject to these mandates. The key mechanism is simply the removal of this statutory provision, with no new requirements or processes added. As a procedural repeal, it does not create new obligations but eliminates a specific existing authority.
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Introduced Dec 17, 2025
Last action Mar 23, 2026
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Introduced by Representatives Bare, Udell, McCarville, Anderson, Arney, Palmeri, Roe, Subeck and Tenorio;
cosponsored by Senators Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer
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