Eliminating the Head Start Vaccine Mandate Act

Eliminating the Head Start Vaccine Mandate 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 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1019 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1019

 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

                           February 14, 2023

 Mrs. McClain introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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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 ``Eliminating the Head Start Vaccine 
Mandate 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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