Title: To prohibit the Department of Transportation and other agencies from promulgating rules requiring a person to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination in order to engage in interstate commerce, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill prohibits certain departments and agencies from promulgating any rule to require a a person to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination in order to engage in interstate commerce. The prohibition applies to
The bill also limits the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to mandate vaccination against COVID-19 as a prerequisite for engaging in interstate commerce or travel.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5418 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5418

 To prohibit the Department of Transportation and other agencies from 
 promulgating rules requiring a person to provide proof of a COVID-19 
 vaccination in order to engage in interstate commerce, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2021

 Mr. Crenshaw introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and Homeland Security, 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 prohibit the Department of Transportation and other agencies from 
 promulgating rules requiring a person to provide proof of a COVID-19 
 vaccination in order to engage in interstate commerce, 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 PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an 
agency or department described in subsection (b) may not promulgate any 
rule to require a person to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination of 
any kind in order to engage in interstate commerce.
    (b) Agencies and Departments Described.--An agency or department 
referred to in subsection (a) is any of the following:
            (1) The Department of Transportation.
            (2) The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (commonly 
        referred to as ``Amtrak'').
            (3) The Surface Transportation Board.
            (4) The Transportation Security Administration.
            (5) The National Transportation Safety Board.
            (6) The Federal Maritime Commission.
            (7) The Department of Commerce.
    (c) Limitation on the Use of HHS Suspension of Entries and Imports 
Authority.--Section 361(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
264(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Nothing in 
this section shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services to mandate vaccination against COVID-19 as a 
prerequisite for engaging in interstate commerce or travel.''.
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