Mandating Responsibility Act
This bill establishes a private cause of action for employees who are harmed by their employer's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
An employee may bring an action against the employer for wrongful termination or other adverse employment actions for violating the mandate. An employee may also bring an action against the employer for wrongful death or serious injury related to the COVID-19 vaccine administration, if the employee received the vaccine solely to comply with the employer's mandate. An employee may recover damages (actual, compensatory, and punitive), injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs, and other appropriate relief.
To permit civil actions against employers for COVID-19 vaccination 
                   mandates, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Mandating Responsibility Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Covered employee.--The term ``covered employee'' means 
        an employee who is employed by an employer who imposes a COVID-
        19 vaccine mandate.
            (2) COVID-19 vaccine mandate.--The term ``COVID-19 
        vaccination mandate'' means a requirement of an employer that 
        an employee receives a COVID-19 vaccine.

SEC. 3. PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION FOR A COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 
covered employee may bring an action against an employer for--
            (1) wrongful termination or any adverse employment action 
        for violating a COVID-19 vaccination mandate of the employer; 
        and
            (2) wrongful death or serious physical injury caused by a 
        COVID-19 vaccination that such employee received for the sole 
        purpose of complying with the COVID-19 vaccination mandate of 
        the employer of such employee.
    (b) Relief.--A prevailing plaintiff under subsection (a) may 
recieve actual damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, 
injunctive relief, any combination of those, attorneys' fees and costs, 
and any other appropriate relief.
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Mandating Responsibility Act
To permit civil actions against employers for COVID-19 vaccination mandates, and for other purposes.
Mandating Responsibility Act
Rep. Mast, Brian J.