# Plain Language Summary: COVID Relief Funding and Vaccine Mandate Restrictions

This bill would prevent any organization that received federal money from the COVID relief packages from requiring their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. If an organization that got this federal money does mandate vaccines anyway, they would have to return all the money they received to the government.

The bill applies to a broad range of federal COVID relief funding distributed between 2020 and 2021, including money from programs like the CARES Act, the Paycheck Protection Program, and the American Rescue Plan. This means hospitals, schools, businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations that received any of these federal funds would be restricted from implementing vaccine requirements for their workers.

In practical terms, this could affect millions of workers across the country. If you work for a hospital, nursing home, school, or business that received COVID relief funds and previously had or was considering a vaccine mandate, this bill would prevent that requirement. However, the bill doesn't prevent employers from requiring vaccines if they didn't receive any of these specific federal funds. The main consequence for organizations that violate this rule would be having to repay potentially millions of dollars in federal assistance they received during the pandemic.

To prohibit any entity that receives Federal funds from the COVID relief packages from mandating employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine, and for other purposes.

Biggs, Andy

 <p>This bill prohibits any entity that receives specified COVID-19 relief funds from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for its employees. An entity that violates this prohibition must return the funding it received.</p>