GIFT Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2015 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2015

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals 
    from taking into account vaccination status in selecting organ 
                              recipients.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2025

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, 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 amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals 
    from taking into account vaccination status in selecting organ 
                              recipients.

    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 ``Guaranteeing Individual Fairness in 
Transplants Act of 2025'' or the ``GIFT Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING HOSPITALS FROM TAKING INTO ACCOUNT VACCINATION 
              STATUS IN SELECTING ORGAN RECIPIENTS.

    Section 1866(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395cc(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (X), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (Y), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``, and''; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (Y) the following new 
        subparagraph:
            ``(Z) in the case of a hospital, critical access hospital, 
        or rural emergency hospital, to not take into account the 
        vaccination status of an individual when determining which 
        individual should receive an organ transplant.''.
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