Last progress January 3, 2025 (11 months ago)
Introduced on January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, 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.
This bill would end federal COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates described in the text. It cancels two executive orders: one that set safety rules for federal contractors and one that required COVID-19 vaccination for federal employees. It also blocks the Department of Labor from issuing any rule that makes employers require COVID-19 shots or testing for unvaccinated workers. In addition, it stops Health and Human Services from making Medicare or Medicaid health care providers require staff COVID-19 shots or testing, and from penalizing providers that don’t do so.
What this means in daily life: the federal government could not enforce COVID-19 vaccine or testing rules on federal workers, federal contractors, private workplaces through Labor rules, or Medicare/Medicaid-participating health facilities, as laid out in the bill’s text.