Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2021

Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2021

This bill prohibits federal agencies from mandating the use of masks or face coverings on planes, trains, buses, and other public conveyances and at transportation hubs to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.

Specifically, the bill nullifies (1) the rule issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 29, 2021, that mandates such use of masks or face coverings; and (2) orders and directives of the Transportation Security Administration that relate to the CDC rule.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4441 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4441

 To prohibit the imposition of mask mandates on public transportation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2021

Mr. Biggs (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. McClintock, 
 Mr. Roy, Mr. Clyde, Mr. Gooden of Texas, and Mr. Gohmert) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on 
    Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the imposition of mask mandates on public transportation.

    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 ``Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN MASK MANDATES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
Federal agency shall impose any Federal requirement related to COVID-19 
that an individual wear a face mask when utilizing any conveyance (as 
defined in section 70.1 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, or 
any successor regulation) or transportation hub.
    (b) Limitation on Existing Orders.--Effective on the date of 
enactment of this Act, the order issued on January 29, 2021, by the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under section 361 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264) establishing a requirement 
for persons to wear masks while on conveyances and at transportation 
hubs, as well as any other related order, directive, and emergency 
amendment of the Transportation Security Administration (including 
those described in EA 1546-21-01A, SD 1542-21-01A, SD 1544-21-02A, SD 
1582-84-21-01A, EA 1546-21-01, SD 1542-21-01, SD 1544-21-02, and SD 
1582/84-21-01) shall have no force or effect.
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