[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5590 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5590

   To require Federal agencies to acknowledge, accept, and agree to 
truthfully present, natural immunity pertaining to COVID-19 pursuant to 
                   promulgating certain regulations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2021

 Mrs. Harshbarger (for herself, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mrs. Miller of 
Illinois, Mr. Posey, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, Mr. Van 
   Drew, Mr. Cawthorn, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Stewart, and Mr. Roy) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require Federal agencies to acknowledge, accept, and agree to 
truthfully present, natural immunity pertaining to COVID-19 pursuant to 
                   promulgating certain regulations.

    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 ``Natural Immunity Is Real Act''.

SEC. 2. NATURAL IMMUNITY TO COVID-19.

    (a) In General.--Pursuant to any regulation promulgated by a 
Federal agency and related to the public health emergency declared by 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) with respect to COVID-19, 
the applicable agency shall acknowledge, accept, agree to truthfully 
present, and incorporate, the consideration of natural immunity as it 
pertains to COVID-19 with respect to the individuals subject to the 
applicable regulations.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``natural 
immunity'' means immunity that is naturally existing.
    (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to allow for, or authorize, a Federal vaccination mandate.
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