S.Amdt. 1699

SA 1699. Mr. VANCE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2882, to reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and
Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund, and for other purposes; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of division ___, add the following:
Sec. ___.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
division, none of the funds appropriated or made available by
this division for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention or any other agency of the Department of Health
and Human Services for fiscal year 2024 shall be used to
enforce a mask mandate in response to COVID-19.
Sec. ___.  Nothing in this division or any other division
of this Act may be construed to prevent a hospital, public
health center, outpatient medical facility, rehabilitation
facility, facility for long-term care, or medical facility,
as those terms are defined in section 1624 of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300s-3), from requiring
employees to wear masks in response to the COVID-19 virus.
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