HR 5450 United States House · 117th Congress

Blocking Joseph Robinette Biden’s Overreaching Vaccine Mandates Act

Summary

Blocking Joseph Robinette Biden's Overreaching Vaccine Mandates Act This bill restricts implementation and enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services may not require, as a condition of participation in the programs, that providers mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, or otherwise penalize participating providers that do not mandate such vaccination. The bill also prohibits the use of federal funds to implement or enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Issues: ✗ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Sep 2021

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Introduced Sep 30, 2021 Last action Oct 1, 2021

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Committee

Oct 1, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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Sep 30, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Oversight and Reform, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Sep 30, 2021

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Introduced in House

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1 primary · 25 co-sponsors