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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals from taking into account vaccination status in selecting organ recipients.
Summary
This bill amends Medicare conditions of participation to prohibit hospitals, critical access hospitals, and rural emergency hospitals from considering an individual's vaccination status when determining organ transplant eligibility. The bill adds a requirement that participating hospitals must not take vaccination status into account in organ recipient selection. Hospitals that violate this requirement would risk losing their Medicare provider status.
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Sponsor (1)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to W. Gregory Steube’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- CHENEY BROTHERS $7,800
- NEXTGEN MANAGEMENT $6,600
- STEPHENS, INC. $6,600
- NEPTUNE WELLNESS SOLUTIONS $6,600
- COOLTODAY $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for W. Gregory Steube → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Mar 10, 2025 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. · house
- Mar 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 10, 2025
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
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals from taking into account vaccination status in selecting organ recipients.
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 “Guaranteeing Individual Fairness in Transplants Act of 2025” or the “GIFT Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITING HOSPITALS FROM TAKING INTO ACCOUNT VACCINATION STATUS IN SELECTING ORGAN RECIPIENTS.
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), by striking the period at the end and inserting “, and”; and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (Y) the following new subparagraph:
“(Z) in the case of a hospital, critical access hospital, or rural emergency hospital, to not take into account the vaccination status of an individual when determining which individual should receive an organ transplant.”. <all>
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