No Mandates for Healthcare Workers Act
This bill prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from requiring any drug or vaccine or other biological product to be administered to employees of health care providers as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation.
On November 5, 2021, the CMS 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 amend title XI of the Social Security Act to prohibit any conditions 
of participation under the Medicare or Medicaid programs that include a 
                        vaccine or drug mandate.

    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 ``No Mandates for Healthcare Workers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN MEDICARE AND 
              MEDICAID.

    Part A of title XI of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1301 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 1150D. PROHIBITION ON CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN MEDICARE 
              AND MEDICAID.

    ``The Secretary shall not have the authority to require any drug 
(as defined in section 201(g)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act) or vaccine or other biological product (as defined in 
section 351(i)(1) of the Public Health Service Act) be administered to 
employees of a provider of services as a condition of participation in 
the Medicare and Medicaid programs.''.
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No Mandates for Healthcare Workers Act
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to prohibit any conditions of participation under the Medicare or Medicaid programs that include a vaccine or drug mandate.
No Mandates for Healthcare Workers Act
Rep. Crenshaw, Dan