United States HR 6017: Parental Rights Protection Act

Bill Text

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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 6017
To prohibit certain COVID–19 vaccination mandates for minors, and to
require parental consent for COVID–19 vaccination of minors.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Mr. BANKS (for himself, Mr. GOOD of Virginia, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mrs. MILLER
of Illinois, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. FALLON, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. MURPHY of
North Carolina, Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina, Mr. JACKSON, Mr.
ALLEN, Mr. BABIN, Mr. PERRY, Mr. POSEY, Mr. CAWTHORN, Mr. JOYCE
of Pennsylvania, Mr. CLINE, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. TIMMONS,
Mr. MAST, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. GUEST, and Mr. SMITH
of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee
on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To prohibit certain COVID–19 vaccination mandates for mi-
nors, and to require parental consent for COVID–19
vaccination of minors.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Parental Rights Pro-4
tection Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS AGAINST COVID–19 VACCINATION 1
MANDATES FOR MINORS. 2
(a) PROHIBITION AGAINST MANDATES.—Neither the 3
Federal Government, nor any agency, grantee, payee, or 4
recipient, including any State, local, Tribal, or territorial 5
governmental entity (including any local educational agen-6
cy, as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-7
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)), that 8
receives any Federal funds from the Department of Edu-9
cation or the Department of Health and Human Services 10
may require or otherwise mandate that any individual age 11
18 or younger receive a COVID–19 vaccine. 12
(b) PROHIBITION AGAINST SCHOOL MANDATES.— 13
(1) IN GENERAL.—A local educational agency 14
(as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and 15
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) 16
that imposes a mandate requiring any students age 17
18 or younger to receive a COVID–19 vaccine shall 18
be subject to the penalty described in paragraph (2). 19
(2) PENALTY.—A local educational agency that 20
imposes a mandate described in paragraph (1) shall 21
not be eligible to receive funding under part A of 22
title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education 23
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) or under part 24
A of title II of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6611 et seq.) 25
beginning on the later of— 26
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(A) the date of enactment of this Act; or 1
(B) the date on which such mandate be-2
comes effective. 3
(3) RESUMED ELIGIBILITY.—If a local edu-4
cational agency ends the mandate described in para-5
graph (1) that local educational agency shall become 6
eligible to receive the funding described in paragraph 7
(2) as of the date on which that mandate is no 8
longer effective. 9
SEC. 3. PARENTAL CONSENT FOR VACCINATION OF MI-10
NORS. 11
No COVID–19 vaccine may be administered to any 12
individual age 18 or younger unless a parent, guardian, 13
conservator, or attorney-in-fact of the minor provides 14
prior, written, informed consent for the minor to receive 15
such vaccine. 16
SEC. 4. APPLICABLE VACCINES. 17
For purposes of sections 2 and 3, the term ‘‘COVID– 18
19 vaccine’’ means any vaccine against COVID–19 that 19
only received authorization by the Food and Drug Admin-20
istration through an emergency use authorization pursu-21
ant to section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-22
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb–3), or that has received such 23
authorization prior to receiving full approval or licensure 24
under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-25
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metic Act (21 U.S.C. 355) or section 351 of the Public 1
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262). 2
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