Ending Discrimination in COVID–19 Treatments Act

Bill: 118-s-171
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-01-31
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-31
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Ending Discrimination in COVID-19 Treatments Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits consideration of certain factors in decisions about access to federally provided treatments or vaccines for COVID-19.</p> <p>As a condition of receiving the treatments or vaccines from the federal government, states, localities, and private entities must ensure that specified demographic characteristics (e.g., race, sex, and age) or other characteristics (e.g., vaccination status, veteran status, and political ideology or speech) are not taken into account when determining a patient's eligibility for treatments or vaccines.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 171 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 31, 2023 Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To prohibit the consideration of patients' race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, vaccination status, veteran status, or political ideology or speech in determining eligibility for COVID–19 treatments and vaccines distributed by the Federal Government.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ending Discrimination in COVID–19 Treatments Act . 2. Eligibility to receive COVID–19 treatments and vaccines The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require States, local governmental entities, and private entities, as a condition for receipt from the Federal Government of any COVID–19 treatment or vaccine, or any funding or other items related to any such treatment or vaccine, to ensure that determinations of patient eligibility for such treatment or vaccine do not take into consideration the race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, vaccination status, veteran status, or political ideology or speech of a patient.