This joint resolution nullifies the rule issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on February 3, 2021, that requires the use of face masks on planes, trains, buses, and other public conveyances and at transportation hubs to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 72

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by Centers for Disease 
 Control and Prevention relating to ``Requirement for Persons To Wear 
        Masks While on Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2022

Mr. Bishop of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Mast, Mr. Rosendale, Mr. 
 Biggs, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Perry, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Posey, Mr. Pfluger, 
Mr. Massie, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. 
  Norman, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. Hice of 
    Georgia, Mr. Gohmert, Ms. Tenney, and Mr. Duncan) submitted the 
  following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by Centers for Disease 
 Control and Prevention relating to ``Requirement for Persons To Wear 
        Masks While on Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
relating to ``Requirement for Persons To Wear Masks While on 
Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs'' (86 Fed. Reg. 8025 (February 
3, 2021); determined through a letter of opinion from the Government 
Accountability Office dated December 14, 2021, and printed in the 
Congressional Record on December 15, 2021, on pages S9206-S9208, that 
the order is a rule under the Congressional Review Act), and such rule 
shall have no force or effect.
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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relating to "Requirement for Persons To Wear Masks While on Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs".
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relating to "Requirement for Persons To Wear Masks While on Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs".
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relating to "Requirement for Persons To Wear Masks While on Conveyances and at Transportation Hubs".
Rep. Bishop, Dan