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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2317 

To provide that United States citizens may not be discriminated against 

based on their COVID–19 vaccination status, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 1, 2021 

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on 

Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs, 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 

A BILL 

To provide that United States citizens may not be discriminated against based on their COVID–19 vaccination status, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘We Will Not Comply 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. 

2 No entity that is subject to title II of the Civil Rights 

3 Act of 1964 may discriminate against any person because 

4 such person has or has not received a COVID–19 vaccine. 

5 SEC. 3. FUNDING RIDERS. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—No Federal funds may be used 

7 to require any individual to receive a COVID–19 vaccine, 

8 or to enforce any such requirement. 

9 (b) NO CONDITIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITU10 TIONS.— 

11 (1) IN GENERAL.—No Federal funds may be 

12 made available to any elementary school, secondary 

13 school, or institution of higher education if such 

14 school or institution requires an individual to receive 

15 a COVID–19 vaccine as a condition for attendance 

16 or participation in any academic or extra-curricular 

17 activity, including sports teams, athletic clubs, or 

18 any other voluntary organization. 

19 (2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

20 (A) The terms ‘‘elementary school’’ and 

21 ‘‘secondary school’’ have the meanings given 

22 those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary 

23 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 

24 U.S.C. 7801). 

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1 tion 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 

2 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 

3 (c) CLARIFICATION.—No Federal funds may be used 

4 to compel an individual who has a religious objection to 

5 a vaccine or to vaccination to receive such vaccine or vac6 cination. 

7 SEC. 4. PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION. 

8 An individual who has been discriminated against on 

9 the basis of the individual’s COVID–19 vaccine status, or 

10 the individual’s failure to comply with a requirement to 

11 wear a face covering, may bring an action in the appro12 priate United States district court seeking damages. 

13 SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON VACCINE REQUIREMENTS TO OB14 TAIN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 

15 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an indi16 vidual may not be required to have received a COVID– 

17 19 vaccine as a condition for obtaining a United States 

18 passport. 

19 SEC. 6. INTERSTATE TRAVEL UNDER THE PRIVILEGES AND 

20 IMMUNITIES CLAUSE. 

21 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation, 

22 acting through the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 

23 Administration, shall prohibit air carriers and foreign air 

24 carriers (as such terms are defined in section 40102(a) 

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1 vidual air transportation solely because such individual 

2 has not been vaccinated against COVID–19. 

3 (b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This section does not 

4 prohibit the United States Government from requiring 

5 that aliens receive a COVID–19 vaccine before entering 

6 the United States. 

7 SEC. 7. CIVIL RIGHTS AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—No public school or public college 

9 (as such terms are defined in section 401 of the Civil 

10 Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000c) may deny an indi11 vidual access to the school or college based on whether 

12 the individual has received a vaccine, including a vaccine 

13 for COVID–19. 

14 (b) ENFORCEMENT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.— 

15 The Attorney General may enforce this section in the same 

16 manner as title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 

17 U.S.C. 2000c et seq.). 

18 SEC. 8. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

19 It is the sense of Congress that Jacobson v. Massa20 chusetts (197 U.S. 11; 1905) should be overturned. 

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