Restore the Rights of Property Owners under the Eviction Moratorium Issued by the CDC Act of 2021

Restore the Rights of Property Owners under the Eviction Moratorium Issued by the CDC Act of 2021

This bill nullifies beginning on July 1, 2021, the emergency order (and any extensions of the order) issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on September 4, 2020, that restricted residential evictions during the COVID-19 emergency. It also prohibits the order from being reissued unless specifically authorized by law.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4196 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4196

  To nullify the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention titled ``Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent 
                   the Further Spread of COVID-19''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2021

  Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Keller, Mr. Norman, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. 
Steube, Mr. Budd, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Perry) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To nullify the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention titled ``Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent 
                   the Further Spread of COVID-19''.

    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 ``Restore the Rights of Property 
Owners under the Eviction Moratorium Issued by the CDC Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION OF ORDER HALTING RESIDENTIAL EVICTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Effective beginning on July 1, 2021, the order 
issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under section 
361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264), entitled 
``Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent the Further Spread 
of COVID-19'' (85 Fed. Reg. 55292 (September 4, 2020)), including the 
extension of such order issued on March 31, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 16731), 
and any other extensions thereto, shall have no force or effect.
    (b) No Reissued or New Order.--The order nullified by subsection 
(a) may not be reissued in substantially the same form, and a new order 
that is substantially the same as such order may not be issued, unless 
the reissued or new order is specifically authorized by a law enacted 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
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