[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6534 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6534

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit transplant centers 
from discriminating against an individual seeking an organ on the basis 
of whether the individual is vaccinated against COVID-19, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2022

    Mr. Cline (for himself, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Good of 
   Virginia, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Roy) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit transplant centers 
from discriminating against an individual seeking an organ on the basis 
of whether the individual is vaccinated against COVID-19, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Stop Arduous Vaccine Enforcement Act 
of 2022'' or the ``SAVE Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. NO DISCRIMINATION IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION ON BASIS OF COVID-19 
              VACCINATION STATUS.

    Section 372(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
274(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (N), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (O), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``, and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(P) prohibit a transplant center from treating an 
        individual as ineligible to donate or receive an organ, assigns 
        a lower priority to an individual to receive an organ, or 
        otherwise discriminates against an individual seeking to donate 
        or receive an organ, on the basis of whether the individual is 
        vaccinated (partially or fully) against COVID-19.''.
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