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 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 348 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 348

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 2021

Ms. Garcia of Texas (for herself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Wasserman 
   Schultz, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. 
  Escobar, Ms. Norton, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Scanlon, and Mr. Johnson of 
   Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
  Committee on House Administration, 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 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 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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