Respecting Our Frontline Workers Act
This bill prohibits federal agencies from requiring the staff of health care facilities or other settings to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to participate in Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
On November 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a rule titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination. The rule requires health care providers, as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation, to ensure that staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
To prohibit any Federal agency from requiring that staff in health care 
    facilities be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of the 
  facility participating in the Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP programs.

    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 ``Respecting Our Frontline Workers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REQUIRING COVID-19 VACCINATION FOR STAFF OF 
              HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AS A CONDITION OF PARTICIPATION IN 
              THE MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR CHIP PROGRAMS.

    Neither the head of any Federal agency nor any officer or employee 
of such an agency shall establish or enforce any requirement that the 
staff of any health care facility or other health care setting receive 
a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of participation in any of the 
following programs:
            (1) The Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.).
            (2) The Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).
            (3) The Children's Health Insurance Program under title XXI 
        of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397aa et seq.).
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Respecting Our Frontline Workers Act
A bill to prohibit any Federal agency from requiring that staff in health care facilities be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of the facility participating in the Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP programs.
Respecting Our Frontline Workers Act
Sen. Lee, Mike