MOONSHOT Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7225
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2022-03-24
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health information and medical records

Immunology and vaccination

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Medicare

Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Latest action: action_date: 2022-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Maintaining Objectionable Orders Narrows the Sick's Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022 or the MOONSHOT Act of 2022</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits hospitals, as a condition of Medicare participation, from removing an individual from an organ transplant list, refusing to add an individual to a list, or otherwise adjusting the status of an individual on a list, based on whether the individual has been vaccinated against COVID-19.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7225 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 24, 2022 Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means , and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , 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 amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on vaccination status.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Maintaining Objectionable Orders Narrows the Sick’s Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022 or the MOONSHOT Act of 2022 . 2. Prohibiting hospitals from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on vaccination status Section 1866(a)(1) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395cc(a)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (X), by striking and at the end; (2) in subparagraph (Y)(ii)(V), by striking the period and inserting , and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (Z) in the case of a hospital or critical access hospital, to refrain from removing an individual from an organ transplant list maintained by such hospital or critical access hospital, from refusing to add an individual to such a list, or from otherwise adjusting an individual’s status on such a list, based on whether such individual has been vaccinated against COVID–19. .