Title: Wear Your Mask Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Wear Your Mask Act
This bill requires each federal agency to take action to ensure that an individual is required to wear a face mask inside a federal facility under its jurisdiction if the individual is within six feet of another individual to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
Each agency shall make face masks available at each entrance to a federal facility at which such agency maintains a presence.
The bill terminates such requirements when the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases determines, and publishes in the Federal Register a notification, that the requirement to wear a mask is no longer necessary to prevent such transmission.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4610 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4610

To require face masks in Federal facilities to prevent the transmission 
                 of SARS-CoV-2, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 17, 2020

  Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Brown, and Ms. Hirono) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require face masks in Federal facilities to prevent the transmission 
                 of SARS-CoV-2, 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 ``Wear Your Mask Act''.

SEC. 2. MASKS REQUIRED IN FEDERAL FACILITIES.

    (a) Masks Required.--Each Federal agency shall take action to 
ensure that an individual is required to wear a face mask if such 
individual is--
            (1) inside a Federal facility under the jurisdiction of 
        such agency; and
            (2) within 6 feet of another individual.
    (b) Enforcement.--A Federal agency may remove or deny service to an 
individual who fails to wear a mask in accordance with subsection (a).
    (c) Provision of Masks.--Each Federal agency shall make face masks 
available at each entrance to a Federal facility at which such agency 
maintains a presence.
    (d) Funding.--A Federal agency shall use funds otherwise 
appropriated to such agency to carry out this section.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Capitol buildings.--The term ``Capitol Buildings'' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 5101 of title 40, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Face mask.--The term ``face mask'' means a mask 
        covering both the nose and mouth, or other protective face 
        covering, that reasonably can be expected to minimize the 
        transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
            (3) Federal agency.--The term ``Federal agency'' has the 
        meaning given such term in section 102 of title 40, United 
        States Code, except that with respect to Capitol Buildings the 
        Office of the Architect of the Capitol shall be treated as the 
        relevant Federal agency.
            (4) Federal facility.--The term ``Federal facility'' 
        means--
                    (A) a building or any part thereof owned or leased 
                by the Federal Government for use by a Federal agency; 
                and
                    (B) the Capitol Buildings or any part thereof.
    (f) Termination.--The requirements of this section shall cease to 
have effect on the date on which the Director of the National Institute 
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases determines, and publishes in the 
Federal Register a notification of such determination, that the 
requirement to wear a mask is no longer necessary to prevent 
transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
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