| 1 | 1 | | I |
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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 117 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit any entity that receives Federal funds from the COVID relief |
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| 6 | 6 | | packages from mandating employees receive a COVID–19 vaccine, and |
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| 7 | 7 | | for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY9, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | IGGSintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 12 | 12 | | on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on |
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| 13 | 13 | | Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within |
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| 15 | 15 | | the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To prohibit any entity that receives Federal funds from |
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| 18 | 18 | | the COVID relief packages from mandating employees |
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| 19 | 19 | | receive a COVID–19 vaccine, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. COVID RELIEF PACKAGE FUNDING RESTRIC-3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | TION. 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) F |
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| 25 | 25 | | UNDINGRESTRICTION.—Any entity that re-5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ceives Federal funds from a COVID relief package may 6 |
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| 27 | 27 | | not mandate that any employee of such entity receives a 7 |
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| 28 | 28 | | COVID–19 vaccine. 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | •HR 117 IH |
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| 32 | 32 | | (b) RETURN OFFUNDS.—Any entity that is in viola-1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | tion of subsection (a) shall return any funds received from 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the COVID relief package to the Federal Government. 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (c) COVID R |
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| 36 | 36 | | ELIEFPACKAGEDEFINED.—In this 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | section, the term ‘‘COVID relief package’’ means any of 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | the following: 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) CARES Act (Public Law 116–136). 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (2) Coronavirus Preparedness and Response 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 116–123). 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (3) Families First Coronavirus Response Act 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (Public Law 116–127). 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (4) Paycheck Protection Program and Health 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Care Enhancement Act (Public Law 116–139). 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (5) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (Public Law 116–260). 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (6) American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Law 117–2). 18 |
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