Bills 117hr4980ih
Bills 117hr4980ih
Bills 117hr4980ih
117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 4980
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual
traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside
the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated
against COVID–19, and for other purposes.
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure
that any individual traveling on a flight that departs
from or arrives to an airport inside the United States
or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated
against COVID–19, and for other purposes.
4 QUIREMENT.
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1 are necessary to ensure that any individual traveling on
2 a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside
3 the United States or a territory of the United States is
4 fully vaccinated against COVID–19.
5 (b) EXCEPTION.—In carrying out subsection (a), the
6 Secretary shall ensure there is an exception to the require-
7 ment described in such subsection for an individual who
8 is ineligible or medically unable to be fully vaccinated
9 against COVID–19.
10 (c) DEFINITION.—In this Act, the term ‘‘fully vac-
11 cinated against COVID–19’’ means receiving all rec-
12 ommended doses of a COVID–19 vaccine that is licensed
13 under section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (42
14 U.S.C. 262) or authorized for emergency use under sec-
15 tion 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
16 (21 U.S.C. 360bbb–3).
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