Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1482

3E Relating to health; modifying certain provisions regulating the isolation and
quarantine of persons exposed to or infected with a communicable disease;
authorizing peace officers to apprehend, hold, transport, quarantine or isolate
persons subject to an isolation or quarantine order fleeing or forcibly
resisting the officer, requiring the commissioner of health or agents of local
boards of health to upon request advise peace officers of measures recommended
to protect against possible transmission of disease; clarifying the conditions
for commissioner issuance of temporary hold directives and requiring the
directives to specify the known period of incubation or communicability,
directive to remain in effect for the period specified and requiring immediate
application for an isolation or quarantine order, directive to expire after a
certain number of hours without court action, specifying certain notice
requirements of the commissioner relating to issuance of temporary hold
directives; requiring peace officers to enforce directives and health care
facilities holding persons under a directive to prevent the person from exposing
others to the disease; authorizing and providing for the court to appoint
counsel at the expense of the department of health or a local public health
board for unrepresented persons upon request; authorizing the court to conduct
certain hearings by electronic means to maintain isolation or quarantine
precautions and reduce the risk of spread of a communicable disease; providing
for administration of vaccines and dispensing of legend drugs in declared
emergencies; extending the expiration date of certain provisions of the
Minnesota emergency health powers act; sunset
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