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Tighter Minn. Quarantine Law Sent To Pawlenty

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May 5, 2009 1:38 pm US/Central

Tighter Minn. Quarantine Law Sent To Pawlenty

ST. PAUL (AP) ― A bill that would make it easier to quarantine those who get sick in a disease outbreak is headed for Gov. Tim Pawlenty's desk.

The House passed the bill 122-8 on Tuesday, after the Senate approved it last week. The legislation was introduced in March, well before swine flu emerged.

The bill would allow law enforcement officers to quarantine and isolate an ill person subject to a court order. Current law allows them to take those steps only if the person flees or forcibly resists the officer.

The bill also establishes new ways of getting vaccines out during an outbreak.

Postal carriers could deliver the vaccines, households could send a designated person to pick them up, or they could be dispensed at a community church or business.

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