[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7868]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4329. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle B of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 821. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACT CLAUSES REQUIRING COVID-19 
                   VACCINE.

       Notwithstanding Executive Order No. 14042 (86 Fed. Reg. 
     50985; relating to ensuring adequate COVID safety protocols 
     for Federal contractors) and the Safer Federal Worker Task 
     Force order dated September 24, 2021, and entitled ``COVID-19 
     Workplace Safety: Guidance for Federal Contractors and 
     Subcontractors'', the Department of Defense may not require 
     any contractor or subcontractor at any tier to impose a 
     workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of entering 
     into a Federal contract or subcontract, including by 
     including a contract clause to such effect in a Department of 
     Defense contract.
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