Freedom from Mandates Act

Subjects: Labor and Employment

Summary:  <p><strong>Freedom from Mandates Act</strong></p> <p>This bill nullifies certain executive orders regarding COVID-19 safety and prohibits the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (HHS) from taking specified actions with respect to vaccination against COVID-19.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill nullifies Executive Order 14042 (relating to ensuring adequate COVID-19 safety protocols for federal contractors) and Executive Order 14043 (requiring COVID-19 vaccination for federal employees).</p> <p>Labor may not issue any rule requiring employers to mandate vaccination of employees against COVID-19 or requiring testing of employees who are unvaccinated.</p> <p>HHS may not (1) require a health care provider, as a condition of participation in the Medicare or Medicaid program, to mandate vaccination of employees against COVID-19 or require testing of employees who are unvaccinated; or (2) otherwise penalize such a provider for failure to mandate such vaccination or require such testing.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 119 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 119

To nullify certain Executive orders regarding COVID-19 vaccine mandates 
 and to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from issuing a rule mandating 
         vaccination against COVID-19, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2023

  Mr. Biggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the 
  Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, 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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                                 A BILL


 
To nullify certain Executive orders regarding COVID-19 vaccine mandates 
 and to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from issuing a rule mandating 
         vaccination against COVID-19, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Freedom from Mandates Act''.

SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION OF CERTAIN EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

    (a) Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors.--Executive Order 
14042 (86 Fed. Reg. 50985, relating to ensuring adequate COVID-19 
safety protocols for Federal contractors) shall have no force or 
effect.
    (b) COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement.--Executive Order 14043 (86 Fed. 
Reg. 50989, relating to requiring COVID-19 vaccination for Federal 
employees) shall have no force or effect.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF RULES MANDATING VACCINATION.

    The Secretary of Labor may not issue any rule requiring employers 
to mandate vaccination of employees against COVID-19 or requiring 
testing of employees who are unvaccinated against COVID-19.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON MEDICARE AND MEDICAID COVID-19 VACCINATION 
              MANDATES.

    Notwithstanding any provision of title XI, XVIII, or XIX of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1301 et seq., 1395 et seq., 1396 et 
seq.), the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not require a 
health care provider, as a condition of participation in the Medicare 
or Medicaid program, to mandate vaccination of employees against COVID-
19 or require testing of employees who are unvaccinated against COVID-
19, and may not otherwise penalize such a provider for such provider's 
failure to so mandate such vaccination or so require such testing.
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