Nevada HIV Criminal Modernization Laws
a.k.a "Health Authority" isolation & quarantine laws and their ability to force testing and pharmaceutical treatment on Nevadans
11/2/22 UPDATE: The NAC update file LCB #R148-22 is moving forward with the small business impact survey now open and due to close on November 15, 2022. After which we expect them to schedule a Public Workshop followed quickly by a public hearing. I have not yet done a thorough analysis (beyond the cursory read back in January where I wrote the below article but never published it) of the changes proposed here by the health department. I will update this post soon.
SB275, which was sponsored by Senator Dallas Harris in the 2021 81st Legislative addresses communicable disease management. This bill was somehow unanimously passed by the Senate….for some reason the republicans there didn’t seem to notice that this bill severely restricts the freedom and rights of Nevadans and hands them over to pharma and their public health cartel. It also passed in the Assembly in a party line vote with all 15 Republicans voting against it in that house (they noticed) and promptly signed into law by the governor. Of course. Much of the language in this bill covers HIV and AIDS, but it also grants the public health authorities much more power than they have previously had in Nevada. It grants the Chief Medical Officer and/or any “health authority” to order quarantine, testing and medical treatment of citizens. It also grants the public health authority the power to hear and to decide citizens’ “appeals” of such orders. The same entity that makes the quarantine order gets to decide whether or not the order was justified in a tribunal of sorts in their own office. It reminds me of the 1986 NCVIA and the Vaccine Injury “court” system that came out of that federal act. Judge, jury and executioner. That ought to work out well for the people.
The Nevada Dept of Behavioral and Public Health (DBPH) has drafted the proposed NAC to accompany the new NRS law enacted by SB275. Originally they had scheduled a Public Workshop on June 1, 2022 but I see that has now been cancelled. I will keep watching this and will let my readers know when they reschedule this workshop. Following is my take on both documents and the details contained within them after careful review and dissection.