Title: Freedom to Fly Maskless Act of 2022
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Freedom to Fly Maskless Act of 2022
This bill restricts the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations or safety standards that apply to interstate travelers for preventing the spread of communicable diseases. Specifically, the bill prohibits regulations or safety standards that require an interstate traveler to (1) undergo screening, testing, or treatment (e.g., vaccination); (2) quarantine or isolate; or (3) wear a face covering.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6829 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6829

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to limit the authority of the 
Department of Health and Human Services to regulate interstate commerce 
  relating to communicable diseases, to amend title 49, United States 
Code, to limit the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
regulate air commerce relating to communicable diseases, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2022

 Mr. Brooks (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Perry, 
  Mr. Mast, Mr. Babin, Mr. Tiffany, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, and Mr. 
   Donalds) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 amend the Public Health Service Act to limit the authority of the 
Department of Health and Human Services to regulate interstate commerce 
  relating to communicable diseases, to amend title 49, United States 
Code, to limit the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
regulate air commerce relating to communicable diseases, 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 ``Freedom to Fly Maskless Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

    Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``Except as provided in 
        subsection (d), regulations prescribed'' and inserting 
        ``Regulations prescribed'';
            (2) by striking subsection (d);
            (3) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d); and
            (4) after making such redesignation, by adding at the end 
        the following:
    ``(e) Notwithstanding subsection (a), and subject to subsection 
(c), nothing in this section authorizes requiring individuals--
            ``(1) to undergo screening, testing, or treatment, 
        including vaccination;
            ``(2) to quarantine or isolate; or
            ``(3) to wear face coverings.''.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON AIR COMMERCE SAFETY REGULATIONS.

    Section 44701 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(g) Prohibition on Regulations Relating to Certain Health 
Requirements.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding subsection (a)(5), the 
        Administrator may not prescribe any regulations or minimum 
        standards for safety in air commerce that require an individual 
        to--
                    ``(A) undergo screening, testing, or treatment, 
                including vaccination, for any communicable disease;
                    ``(B) quarantine or isolate as a result of 
                exposure, or potential exposure, to a communicable 
                disease; or
                    ``(C) wear a face covering.
            ``(2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `air 
        commerce' has the meaning given such term in section 40102 but 
        does not include foreign air commerce.''.
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