Ending Mandates on Head Start Educators Act

Ending Mandates on Head Start Educators Act

This bill nullifies the rule titled Vaccine and Mask Requirements to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Head Start Programs, which was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services on November 30, 2021. The rule requires that (1) all individuals two years of age and older wear face masks (subject to some exceptions) when participating in Head Start programs, and (2) Head Start staff and others with direct contact with children be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The bill also prohibits the issuance of any substantially similar rule.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 794 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 794

 To eliminate the COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirement in Head Start 
                               Programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2023

 Mr. Joyce of Ohio (for himself, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Moolenaar, and 
 Mr. Rutherford) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
              the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To eliminate the COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirement in 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 ``Ending Mandates on Head Start 
Educators Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING THE COVID-19 VACCINE AND MASK REQUIREMENT IN HEAD 
              START PROGRAMS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services may not implement, 
enforce, or otherwise give effect to the rule entitled ``Vaccine and 
Mask Requirements To Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Head Start 
Programs'' published by the Department of Health and Human Services on 
November 30, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 68052), and may not promulgate any 
substantially similar rule.
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