3.0.0 3974 2023-03-08T20:12:35Z 2023-03-08T20:12:35Z Senate S 2022-03-31 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-03-31T18:28:54Z 2022-03-31 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2022-03-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001098 Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] Ted Cruz R TX N Health Disability and health-based discrimination Drug therapy Immunology and vaccination Infectious and parasitic diseases State and local government operations Health 00 2022-03-31 Introduced in Senate 2022-07-18T18:52:46Z Ending Discrimination in COVID-19 Treatments Act

This bill prohibits consideration of certain factors, including vaccination status, in decisions about an individual's access to federally provided monoclonal antibody therapies to treat COVID-19.

As a condition of receiving the therapies from the federal government, states must ensure that providers do not consider specified demographic characteristics, veteran status, or political ideology or speech when determining a patient's eligibility for such therapies.

]]> Ending Discrimination in COVID–19 Treatments Act Display Title Ending Discrimination in COVID–19 Treatments Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Ending Discrimination in COVID–19 Treatments Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit the consideration of patients' race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, vaccination status, veteran status, or political ideology or speech in determining eligibility for monoclonal antibody doses distributed by the Federal Government. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s3974is/xml/BILLS-117s3974is.xml 2022-03-31 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.