[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7225 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7225

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals 
    from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on 
                          vaccination status.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2022

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 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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