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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 14.","date":"2023-02-13"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[{"number":"H.Amdt. 80","sponsor":"Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]","purpose":"An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 118-3 to clarify that this legislation will not affect the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to mandate vaccination requirements against any other disease in the future for noncitizens who are nonimmigrants entering the U.S.","result":"Failed","date":"2023-02-08","yea":210,"nay":222,"present":0,"not_voting":8,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll110.xml"},{"number":"H.Amdt. 81","sponsor":"Rep. 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[R-TN-6]","purpose":"Amendment clarifies that nothing in the underlying bill impacts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order requiring negative COVID-19 tests for proof of recovery from COVID-19 for travelers coming from the People's Republic of China.","result":"Agreed to","date":"2023-02-08","yea":426,"nay":8,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll113.xml"},{"number":"H.Amdt. 84","sponsor":"Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-CA-35]","purpose":"Amendment sought to delay termination of the COVID-19 vaccination air travel requirement until the Secretary of Health and Human Services submits a certification that COVID-19 hospitalizations will not increase as a result.","result":"Failed","date":"2023-02-08","yea":209,"nay":224,"present":0,"not_voting":7,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll114.xml"}],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-02-08","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Failed","yea":210,"nay":222,"present":0,"not_voting":8,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll110.xml"},{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-02-08","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Agreed to","yea":253,"nay":168,"present":0,"not_voting":19,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll111.xml"},{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-02-08","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Failed","yea":207,"nay":220,"present":0,"not_voting":13,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll112.xml"},{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-02-08","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Agreed to","yea":426,"nay":8,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll113.xml"},{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-02-08","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Failed","yea":209,"nay":224,"present":0,"not_voting":7,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll114.xml"},{"chamber":"house","date":"2023-02-08","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes","result":"Failed","yea":208,"nay":220,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll115.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-02-08","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"p","t":"This bill nullifies the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) titled Amended Order Implementing Presidential Proclamation on Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic and published on April 7, 2022. (The order restricts the entry of noncitizens who are not immigrants into the United States by air travel unless they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or otherwise attest that they will take public health measures to prevent the spread of the disease.)"},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also nullifies any successor or subsequent orders that require foreign persons traveling by air to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of entry and prohibits the use of federal funds to administer or enforce such a requirement. However, the bill does not affect the CDC order published on January 5, 2023, that governs COVID-19 testing or documentation of COVID-19 recovery for certain individuals traveling from China to the United States by aircraft."},{"k":"p","t":"In addition, the CDC must report to Congress about the number of visitors who were denied entry into the United States from April 7, 2022, until the date of the bill's enactment."}],"words":190},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Ends the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's requirement that foreign air travelers show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter the United States, and bars federal funds for administering or enforcing it.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#H9F0D6062EE6847D7B1D81E5F47A185DD"}]},"core_areas":["CDC proof-of-vaccination requirement for foreign air travelers"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Provides that, beginning on the date of enactment, the air travel vaccination requirement for foreign travelers has no force or effect.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#H9F0D6062EE6847D7B1D81E5F47A185DD"}},{"text":"Bars the use of Federal funds, beginning on the date of enactment, to administer, implement, or enforce the air travel vaccination requirement for foreign travelers.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#H9F0D6062EE6847D7B1D81E5F47A185DD"}},{"text":"Defines the requirement as the CDC order published in the Federal Register on April 7, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 20405 et seq.), and any successor or subsequent CDC order requiring foreign persons traveling by air to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter the United States.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#H9F0D6062EE6847D7B1D81E5F47A185DD"}},{"text":"Requires the CDC Director to report to Congress, within 90 days of enactment, on the number of visitors denied entry under the April 7, 2022 order from that date through the date of enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#HC9BA043087144C98AF9E2CCF067D7FE5"}},{"text":"States that the Act is not to be construed to affect the CDC order published January 5, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 864) on pre-departure COVID-19 test results or documentation of recovery for air passengers from the People's Republic of China.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#H8F4BCB9ED8324DBD8EB43208A198C728"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"off_subject","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh#H8F4BCB9ED8324DBD8EB43208A198C728"},"heading":"Rule of construction","effect":"States that Section 1 is not to be read as affecting a separate CDC order requiring negative pre-departure COVID-19 test results or proof of recovery for air passengers from the People's Republic of China.","amount":null,"quote":"for proof of negative pre-departure COVID–19 test results or documentation of recovery from COVID–19 for aircraft passengers traveling to the United States from the People’s Republic of China"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2023-02-08","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/185/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-185.png","v":"72a0b4134317","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 185, 118th Congress: To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes. House: 227 Yea, 201 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 8 Feb 2023."}}