Maintaining Objectionable Orders Narrows the Sick's Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022 or the MOONSHOT Act of 2022
This bill prohibits hospitals, as a condition of Medicare participation, from removing an individual from an organ transplant list, refusing to add an individual to a list, or otherwise adjusting the status of an individual on a list, based on whether the individual has been vaccinated against COVID-19.
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals 
    from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on 
                          vaccination status.

    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 ``Maintaining Objectionable Orders 
Narrows the Sick's Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022'' or the 
``MOONSHOT Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING HOSPITALS FROM REMOVING INDIVIDUALS FROM ORGAN 
              TRANSPLANT LISTS BASED ON VACCINATION STATUS.

    Section 1866(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395cc(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (X), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (Y)(ii)(V), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``, and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(Z) in the case of a hospital or critical access 
        hospital, to refrain from removing an individual from an organ 
        transplant list maintained by such hospital or critical access 
        hospital, from refusing to add an individual to such a list, or 
        from otherwise adjusting an individual's status on such a list, 
        based on whether such individual has been vaccinated against 
        COVID-19.''.
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MOONSHOT Act of 2022
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on vaccination status.
MOONSHOT Act of 2022
Maintaining Objectionable Orders Narrows the Sick’s Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022
Rep. Steube, W. Gregory