No OSHA Authority to Mandate Vaccines Act

No OSHA Authority to Mandate Vaccines Act

This bill specifies that the Department of Labor may not, under its authority to regulate workplace safety and health, require the administration of any drug, vaccine, or other biological product to an employee.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7127 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7127

    To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act to prohibit the 
  Secretary from enforcing any drug or vaccine mandate, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2022

  Mrs. Hartzler (for herself, Mr. Carey, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. 
Gosar, Mr. Posey, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Bentz, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
   Mast, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. McKinley, and Mr. Weber of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act to prohibit the 
  Secretary from enforcing any drug or vaccine mandate, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``No OSHA Authority to Mandate 
Vaccines Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DRUG AND VACCINE MANDATES.

    Section 4(b) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. 
653(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to provide the 
        Secretary with the authority to require any drug (as defined in 
        section 201(g)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) 
        or vaccine or other biological product (as defined in section 
        351(i)(1) of the Public Health Service Act) to be administered 
        to any employee.''.
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