Title: REVERSE OSHA Mandates Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Reversing Every Vaccine Emergency Requirement and Stopping Employee OSHA Mandates Act or the REVERSE OSHA Mandates Act
This bill limits the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to regulate workplace safety and health matters.
Specifically, the bill repeals OSHA's authority to issue emergency temporary standards related to workplace safety and health. The bill further specifies that OSHA may not, under its authority to regulate workplace safety and health, require the administration of any drug, vaccine, or other biological product to an employee.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7281 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7281

 To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to repeal the 
 Secretary's authority to issue emergency temporary standards, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2022

Mr. Clyde (for himself, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. Norman, Mr. Donalds, 
    Mr. Duncan, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Mooney, Mr. Davidson, Mrs. Miller of 
Illinois, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, 
Mr. Harris, Mr. Rosendale, Mr. Massie, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Biggs, 
  Mrs. Greene of Georgia, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Meuser, Mr. 
Tiffany, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Grothman, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Babin, Mr. Mann, 
   Mr. Johnson of Louisiana, Mr. Allen, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Hice of 
   Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to repeal the 
 Secretary's authority to issue emergency temporary standards, 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 ``Reversing Every Vaccine Emergency 
Requirement and Stopping Employee OSHA Mandates Act'' or the ``REVERSE 
OSHA Mandates Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EMERGENCY TEMPORARY STANDARD.

    Section 6 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 655) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (c); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (d) through (g) as 
        subsections (c) through (f), respectively.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON STANDARDS SUBJECTING WORKERS TO MEDICAL 
              TREATMENTS.

    Section 6 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 655) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Nothing in this section may be construed to provide authority 
to require any drug (as defined in section 201(g)(1) of the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) or vaccine or other biological product 
(as defined in section 351(i)(1) of the Public Health Service Act) to 
be administered to any employee.''.
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