Preventing Mandates on Toddlers Act

Preventing Mandates on Toddlers Act

This bill prohibits federal funds from being used to implement or enforce the Department of Health and Human Services' rule titled Vaccine and Mask Requirements To Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Head Start Programs, published on November 30, 2021, or any substantially similar rule, regulation, or agency statement.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6312 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6312

 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to enforce the rule submitted by 
   the Department of Health and Human Services relating to COVID-19 
         vaccine and mask requirements for Head Start programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2021

    Mrs. McClain (for herself, Mr. Allen, and Mr. Gooden of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to enforce the rule submitted by 
   the Department of Health and Human Services relating to COVID-19 
         vaccine and mask requirements for Head Start programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Mandates on Toddlers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING THE HHS RULE ON HEAD START COVID VACCINE 
              AND MASK REQUIREMENTS.

    Notwithstanding any other law, no funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Health and Human Services shall be 
obligated or expended to--
            (1) implement or enforce the rule submitted by the 
        Department of Health and Human Services relating to ``Vaccine 
        and Mask Requirements To Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in 
        Head Start Programs'' (86 Fed. Reg. 68052 (November 30, 2021)); 
        or
            (2) promulgate, implement, or enforce any rule, regulation, 
        or other agency statement, that is substantially similar to the 
        rule described in paragraph (1).
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