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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 3184 

To prohibit certain COVID–19 vaccination mandates for minors, and to 

require parental consent for COVID–19 vaccination of minors. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 4, 2021 

Mr. CRUZ introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to 

the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To prohibit certain COVID–19 vaccination mandates for minors, and to require parental consent for COVID–19 

vaccination of minors. 

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 ‘‘Parental Rights Pro5 tection Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS AGAINST COVID–19 VACCINATION 

7 MANDATES FOR MINORS. 

8 (a) PROHIBITION AGAINST MANDATES.—Neither the 

9 Federal Government, nor any agency, grantee, payee, or 

10 recipient, including any State, local, Tribal, or territorial 


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1 governmental entity (including any local educational agen2 cy, as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec3 ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)), that 

4 receives any Federal funds from the Department of Edu5 cation or the Department of Health and Human Services 

6 may require or otherwise mandate that any individual age 

7 18 or younger receive a COVID–19 vaccine. 

8 (b) PROHIBITION AGAINST SCHOOL MANDATES.— 

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—A local educational agency 

10 (as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and 

11 Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) 

12 that imposes a mandate requiring any students age 

13 18 or younger to receive a COVID–19 vaccine shall 

14 be subject to the penalty described in paragraph (2). 

15 (2) PENALTY.—A local educational agency that 

16 imposes a mandate described in paragraph (1) shall 

17 not be eligible to receive funding under part A of 

18 title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education 

19 Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) or under part 

20 A of title II of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6611 et seq.) 

21 beginning on the later of— 

22 (A) the date of enactment of this Act; or 

23 (B) the date on which such mandate be24 comes effective. 


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1 (3) RESUMED ELIGIBILITY.—If a local edu2 cational agency ends the mandate described in para3 graph (1) that local educational agency shall become 

4 eligible to receive the funding described in paragraph 

5 (2) as of the date on which that mandate is no 

6 longer effective. 

7 SEC. 3. PARENTAL CONSENT FOR VACCINATION OF MI8 NORS. 

9 No COVID–19 vaccine may be administered to any 

10 individual age 18 or younger unless a parent, guardian, 

11 conservator, or attorney-in-fact of the minor provides 

12 prior, written, informed consent for the minor to receive 

13 such vaccine. 

14 SEC. 4. APPLICABLE VACCINES. 

15 For purposes of sections 2 and 3, the term ‘‘COVID– 

16 19 vaccine’’ means any vaccine against COVID–19 that 

17 only received authorization by the Food and Drug Admin18 istration through an emergency use authorization pursu19 ant to section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos20 metic Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb–3), or that has received such 

21 authorization prior to receiving full approval or licensure 

22 under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos23 metic Act (21 U.S.C. 355) or section 351 of the Public 

24 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262). 

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