[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2846 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2846

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 23, 2021

    Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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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