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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2015 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals from |
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| 6 | 6 | | taking into account vaccination status in selecting organ recipients. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH10, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | TEUBEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com- |
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| 11 | 11 | | mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy |
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| 12 | 12 | | and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak- |
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| 13 | 13 | | er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju- |
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| 14 | 14 | | risdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit |
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| 17 | 17 | | hospitals from taking into account vaccination status |
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| 18 | 18 | | in selecting organ recipients. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Guaranteeing Indi-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | vidual Fairness in Transplants Act of 2025’’ or the 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ‘‘GIFT Act of 2025’’. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:06 Mar 21, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2015.IH H2015 |
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| 26 | 26 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 2015 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITING HOSPITALS FROM TAKING INTO AC-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | COUNT VACCINATION STATUS IN SELECTING 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ORGAN RECIPIENTS. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 1866(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | U.S.C. 1395cc(a)(1)) is amended— 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) in subparagraph (X), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the end; 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) in subparagraph (Y), by striking the period 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | at the end and inserting ‘‘, and’’; and 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (3) by inserting after subparagraph (Y) the fol-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | lowing new subparagraph: 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(Z) in the case of a hospital, critical access 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | hospital, or rural emergency hospital, to not take 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | into account the vaccination status of an individual 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | when determining which individual should receive an 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | organ transplant.’’. 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Æ |
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