The bill #2006 in legislative session 2021 is a general emergency management bill. Yes there is a paragraph in there for the state health officer to take action against people who are "a danger to public health".
They can order an idividual to get vaccinated. If the individual is unwilling to get vaccinated then they can be quarantined. If there is no means to quarantine the individual then the health officer can use any means to vaccinate or treat them. This authority only applies under a declared Public Health Emergency.
This was likely already drafted up from previous years emergency management bills and the wordering was already in there (I have no proof of that other than the generic sounding wording and it would make no sense to not have an emergency management bill prior to march 2021). It seems like this bill already existed in some form and this year was ammended to include wording to ban vaccine passports or other variations of proof and DeSantis quickly signed it.
It does seem to track that at some point some one struck out the word vaccine in that paragraph but the bill could not get passed in a lesser chamber. So when it got to DeSantis it was not up to him to add or remove that terminology, he could only sign or veto the bill.
However, notice the terminology used. MAY and not SHALL there is a difference.
The bill #2006 in legislative session 2021 is a general emergency management bill. Yes there is a paragraph in there for the state health officer to take action against people who are "a danger to public health".
They can order an idividual to get vaccinated. If the individual is unwilling to get vaccinated then they can be quarantined. If there is no means to quarantine the individual then the health officer can use any means to vaccinate or treat them. This authority only applies under a declared Public Health Emergency.
This was likely already drafted up from previous years emergency management bills and the wordering was already in there (I have no proof of that other than the generic sounding wording and it would make no sense to not have an emergency management bill prior to march 2021). It seems like this bill already existed in some form and this year was ammended to include wording to ban vaccine passports or other variations of proof and DeSantis quickly signed it.
It does seem to track that at some point some one struck out the word vaccine in that paragraph but the bill could not get passed in a lesser chamber. So when it got to DeSantis it was not up to him to add or remove that terminology, he could only sign or veto the bill.
However, notice the terminology used. MAY and not SHALL there is a difference.