I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5092 
To prohibit the Federal Government from requiring any citizen to be vac-
cinated, including Federal agencies from requiring its employees to take 
any vaccination, without the citizen being fully advised in writing of 
all known potential risks from the vaccine and consultation with a physi-
cian followed by the voluntary informed consent of the citizen, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 24, 2021 
Mr. GOHMERT (for himself, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. DUNCAN, and Mrs. 
MILLER of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Commit-
tees on the Judiciary, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit the Federal Government from requiring any cit-
izen to be vaccinated, including Federal agencies from 
requiring its employees to take any vaccination, without 
the citizen being fully advised in writing of all known 
potential risks from the vaccine and consultation with 
a physician followed by the voluntary informed consent 
of the citizen, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that: 
(1) The Constitution does not permit a vaccine 
mandate, including a mandate by the executive 
branch imposed on Federal employees as a condition 
to maintain the employment they need to feed their 
families. 
(2) It is unconscionable for any entity to use 
force or coercion to compel individuals to take a vac-
cine, and even more egregiously unconscionable for 
a vaccine to be administered under emergency use 
authorization (EUA) without adequate warnings of 
known potential risks. 
(3) Mandating vaccines, including experimental 
vaccines, does not fall within any of the executive 
authorities, according to article II, section 2 of the 
United States Constitution. 
(4) The Constitution reserves ‘‘police power’’, 
for the protection of health, safety, and morals, to 
the States. 
(5) Even though a State has police power, strict 
scrutiny is still applied when laws infringe on funda-
mental liberties, and in such instance, government 
action is only constitutional when it both achieves a 
compelling goal and is narrowly tailored or the least 
restrictive alternative to achieve that goal. 
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(6) Over the last year, the Federal agencies 
have not only encouraged telework, but have even 
mandated it, regardless of whether an individual em-
ployee assessed the office environment to present an 
unreasonable known risk to his or her health, and 
regardless of whether the conditions at home were 
suitable for productivity or work. In certain cases, 
States have done the same with their government 
workforces. Arbitrarily requiring an individual to get 
vaccinated or lose his or her employment cannot pos-
sibly be the least restrictive alternative to a public 
health goal at the Federal or State level. Individuals 
who object to taking a vaccine or an experimental 
vaccine, for any reason, do not impose an inordinate 
known risk to the workplace, when every individual 
has the liberty to make health decisions for them-
selves, including vaccination, masking, social dis-
tancing, or other possibly preventive measures. 
(7) In our constitutional republic, the Federal 
Government must exercise power only in keeping 
with the strict limits as enumerated in the Constitu-
tion. 
(8) The Government is never in a better posi-
tion to assess the wisdom and necessity of a par-
ticular medical intervention than the individual and 
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his or her own physician; failing to acknowledge this 
most self-evident of truths is anathema to the prin-
ciple of self-governance on which our Nation was 
founded. 
(9) This individual right has been steadfastly 
upheld by human rights advocates not only in our 
own Nation, but also around the world. 
(10) Even the United Nations Committee on 
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) 
states in no uncertain terms that health freedoms in-
clude the right to control one’s health and body and 
‘‘. . . the right to be free from interference, such as 
the right to be free from torture, non-consensual 
medical treatment and experimentation.’’. 
(11) Article 21 ‘‘Health-Informed Consent’’ 
prepared by the International Disability Caucus af-
firms this ancient truth based in the natural law as 
follows: ‘‘Thus, health is not a public good to be pur-
sued independent of the will of each individual, but 
requires respect for the will of the individual person 
with respect to his or her own well-being.’’. 
(12) Should the Biden administration, any 
agency of the Federal Government, or any State or 
locality of this union pursue the path of forced vac-
cination, they are choosing to intentionally disregard 
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the U.S. Constitution, natural law, human rights 
norms, and the will of the individual in making a de-
cision that most directly affects his or her own 
health and bodily integrity. 
(13) This discussion, necessitated by the dan-
gerous actions and rhetoric of the left in America, 
further compromises the long-enshrined legal re-
quirement of informed consent. 
(14) There is currently no Federal law requir-
ing informed consent because the decisions that 
would implicate it have correctly been understood as 
matters to be determined at the State and local 
level. 
(15) Left-wing extremists in the United States 
have threatened individuals in such a way that it is 
now necessary to pursue a Federal informed consent 
law to protect our citizens. 
(16) Informed consent must be voluntary. 
SEC. 2. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PROHIBITED FROM 
REQUIRING 
ANY 
CITIZENS 
TO 
BE 
VAC-
CINATED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Government, includ-
ing Federal agencies, are prohibited from requiring any 
citizen or employee to be vaccinated, without the citizen 
being fully advised in writing of all known potential risks 
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