Bill Details
HR.2015 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-10 - 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.
Introduced Date
2025-03-10
Policy Area
Health
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This bill would stop hospitals from using a person’s vaccination status when deciding who should receive an organ transplant. It would apply to hospitals, critical access hospitals, and rural emergency hospitals. In simple terms, the bill says that whether someone is vaccinated or not should not be part of the decision about which patient gets an available organ.
- It changes federal health law to add this rule to hospital requirements.
- The rule would cover hospitals, critical access hospitals, and rural emergency hospitals.
- Hospitals would be barred from considering vaccination status when choosing between transplant candidates.
Official Summaries
Guaranteeing Individual Fairness in Transplants Act of 2025 or the GIFT Act of 2025
This bill requires, as a condition of Medicare participation, hospitals, critical access hospitals, and rural emergency hospitals to disregard an individual's vaccination status when determining which individual should receive an organ transplant.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2015 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2015
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals
from taking into account vaccination status in selecting organ
recipients.
_______________________________________________________________________
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.''.
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