Wear Your Mask Act

Bill: 117-hr-348
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2021-01-19
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Health promotion and preventive care

Health technology, devices, supplies

Infectious and parasitic diseases

U.S. Capitol
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-01-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Wear Your Mask Act</b></p> <p>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).</p> <p>Each agency shall make face masks available at each entrance to a federal facility at which such agency maintains a presence.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 348 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. Velázquez , Ms. Escobar , Ms. Norton , Mr. Cárdenas , 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 A BILL To require face masks in Federal facilities to prevent the transmission of SARS–CoV–2, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Wear Your Mask Act . 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.