Image: Wikimedia Commons (National Park Service photo by Mark Lellouch) On Monday, the Arizona State House put forward and passed a propos...
On Monday, the Arizona State House put forward and passed a proposed amendment to the Arizona Constitution that could soon introduce a section solidifying an individual’s right to refuse medical mandates, products, or treatments.
Only one ballot measure of this kind has ever passed through a single committee in any chamber of a legislature anywhere in the nation. None has made it through both the House and Senate.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to the author of the potentially historic amendment. Nick Kupper (R-AZ), a retired Master Sergeant from the Air Force and a representative in the Arizona State House, expressed his immense satisfaction with the successful passage of House Concurrent Resolution 2056 through the Arizona House yesterday.
In the next step, the proposal would need approval in the Senate, after which the amendment will be placed on the November ballot for the people of Arizona to decide its fate.
If enacted, the legislation states that “a government may not mandate, require, coerce or compel any individual to accept, receive or administer any medical product or treatment that involves invasion of or affixing any item or article to the body for any reason or purpose, including as a condition of employment, education, entry or access to any facility or space, participation in services or the exercise of any right, privilege or benefit.”
Kupper explained, it doesn’t prevent private companies from running their businesses as they see fit, but it does clarify that it’s not the state government’ s responsibility to impose conditions regarding product acceptance in these situations.
If this proposal advances out of the Senate—and Kupper is optimistic that it will—citizens of The Grand Canyon State will essentially be asked the question on their ballot: Do you want your Constitution to state that the Arizona state government cannot mandate you to take medical products?
As Kupper wrote on X, “Every NO vote on this bill is a representative who does not want the people of AZ to have that opportunity.”
The AZ House of Reps just did something no state has ever done, we passed a bill which lets AZ voters decide if they want the state mandating their medical decisions.
Every NO vote on this bill is a representative who does not want the people of AZ to have that opportunity. pic.twitter.com/ch64dHJZTF
— Nick Kupper (@realnickkupper) March 3, 2026
Despite the 23 Arizona representatives who voted against the bill in the House yesterday, Kupper said, “The people of Arizona will have the opportunity in November to determine this for themselves.”
“If it doesn’t pass [on the November ballot], it doesn’t go into the Constitution,” he explained. “If that happens, voters are saying they want the state to mandate what they do to their bodies, and I’ll accept the result.”
“No voter in the country has ever been given this option,” and for Kupper, this is what politics should be about: individual liberty. “This is why I became a politician,” he said, concluding the interview with remarkable enthusiasm.
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