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Freedom for Health Care Workers Act
This bill nullifies the rule titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on November 5, 2021, and prohibits the issuance of any substantially similar rule. The rule requires health care providers, as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation, to ensure that staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 497 as passed House on Jan 31, 2023. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jan 31, 2023Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJan 31, 2023
House Jan 31, 2023 · the primary vote
Freedom for Health Care Workers Act
Passed
227 Yea 203 Nay 4 not voting
Party-line vote 7 of 430 voting members broke with their own party: 7 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
434 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 497 and vote against it. 59 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 497 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
19 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-04. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.