Title: To prohibit the use of Federal funds to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to officers and employees of the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or certain Department of the Interior officers and employees or require that such officers and employees receive such a vaccine as a condition of employment.
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
This bill prohibits using federal funds to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to certain federal employees or require such federal employees to receive the vaccine as a condition of employment. Specifically, this bill shall apply to any officer or employee of (1) the U.S. Border Patrol, (2) the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or (3) the Department of the Interior or the Drug Enforcement Administration engaged in the construction or maintenance of a border barrier along the southern U.S. border.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6275 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6275

 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to administer a COVID-19 vaccine 
 to officers and employees of the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement, or certain Department of the Interior officers 
and employees or require that such officers and employees receive such 
                a vaccine as a condition of employment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2021

   Ms. Mace introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on 
 Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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 use of Federal funds to administer a COVID-19 vaccine 
 to officers and employees of the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement, or certain Department of the Interior officers 
and employees or require that such officers and employees receive such 
                a vaccine as a condition of employment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NO VACCINE MANDATE FOR U.S. BORDER PATROL, U.S. IMMIGRATION 
              AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, OR CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF THE 
              INTERIOR OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

    No Federal funds may be used to--
            (1) administer a COVID-19 vaccine to--
                    (A) any officer or employee of the U.S. Border 
                Patrol or the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; 
                or
                    (B) any officer or employee of the Department of 
                the Interior or the Drug Enforcement Agency who is 
                engaged in activities respecting the construction or 
                maintenance of a border barrier along the souther 
                border of the United States; or
            (2) require any such officer or employee to receive such a 
        vaccine as a condition of employment.
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