[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 171 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 171

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 COVID-19 
     treatments and vaccines distributed by the Federal Government.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 31, 2023

   Mr. Cruz 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 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 COVID-19 
     treatments and vaccines distributed by the Federal Government.

    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 ``Ending Discrimination in COVID-19 
Treatments Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE COVID-19 TREATMENTS AND VACCINES.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require States, 
local governmental entities, and private entities, as a condition for 
receipt from the Federal Government of any COVID-19 treatment or 
vaccine, or any funding or other items related to any such treatment or 
vaccine, to ensure that determinations of patient eligibility for such 
treatment or vaccine do not take into consideration the race, color, 
religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, vaccination status, 
veteran status, or political ideology or speech of a patient.
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