Title: To prohibit the withholding of Federal education funds on the basis of vaccination requirements, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Education

Summary:
This bill prohibits withholding federal education funds from an otherwise eligible recipient (e.g., educational agencies, schools, and institutions of higher education) because the recipient does not require students or employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5864 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5864

To prohibit the withholding of Federal education funds on the basis of 
           vaccination requirements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2021

Mr. Gooden of Texas (for himself, Mr. Roy, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. 
  Duncan, Mrs. Boebert, and Mr. Cloud) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the withholding of Federal education funds on the basis of 
           vaccination requirements, 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. PROHIBITION ON WITHHOLDING FEDERAL EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF 
              VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Prohibition.--No Federal education funds may be withheld from 
an otherwise eligible recipient because such recipient does not require 
students or employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``eligible reciepient'' means--
                    (A) a State;
                    (B) a State educational agency;
                    (C) a local educational agency;
                    (D) an elementary school or secondary school;
                    (E) an institution of higher education; or
                    (F) any other individual or entity that is eligible 
                to receive Federal education funds.
            (2) The term ``Federal education funds'' means any funds 
        made available--
                    (A) under the Elementary and Secondary Education 
                Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.);
                    (B) under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
                U.S.C. 1001 et seq.); or
                    (C) for purposes relating to education under any 
                other provision of Federal law.
            (3) The term ``institution of higher education'' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 102 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002).
            (4) The terms ``elementary school'', ``local educational 
        agency'', ``secondary school'', ``State'', and ``State 
        educational agency'' have the meanings given those terms in 
        section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
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