A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard".

This joint resolution nullifies a Department of Labor emergency temporary standard for preventing the transmission of COVID-19 in employment settings.

Under the standard issued on November 5, 2021, employers with 100 or more employees must require their onsite employees to either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 29 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 29

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
 United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor 
  relating to ``COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary 
                              Standard''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2021

 Mr. Braun (for himself, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Marshall, Mr. 
Lee, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Paul, Ms. 
  Lummis, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. 
  Thune, Mr. Moran, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Burr, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. 
Toomey, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Risch, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Cotton, Ms. 
 Ernst, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Grassley, 
   Mr. Young, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Sasse, Mr. Daines, Mrs. 
    Fischer, Mr. Graham, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Scott of South 
   Carolina, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
  Portman, Ms. Collins, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Romney) introduced the 
 following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
 United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor 
  relating to ``COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary 
                              Standard''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to ``COVID-19 
Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard'' (86 Fed. Reg. 
61402 (November 5, 2021)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.
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