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handle is hein.crs/govefub0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ______ SResearch Servicea Inforrng the I gislative debate sin e 1914____________________ Status of Federal COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Litigation Updated May 17, 2022 In 2021, various federal, state, and private entities instituted Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination requirements to address the pandemic, particularly as the Delta variant-a highly contagious strain of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19)-spread in the United States. The federal COVID-19 vaccination requirements issued to date by the President or executive agencies include those directed at (1) federal executive agency civilian employees (federal employee mandate); (2) federal contractors for executive departments, agencies, and offices (federal contractor mandate); (3) most Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' [CMS's] Medicare/Medicaid provider mandate); (4) employers with 100 or more employees (Occupational Safety and Health Administration's [OSHA's] large employer vaccination and testing mandate); and (5) staff of the Head Start program, which provides comprehensive early childhood education and development services to low-income children (Head Start mandate). These employment- or workforce-based mandates-subject to accommodations required by federal law-either directly require certain employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations or direct certain employers to impose a vaccination or vaccination-and-testing requirement on their employees or staff. These federal vaccination mandates have generated numerous legal challenges that have moved quickly through the courts. To date, some of these mandates have been enjoined by courts either on a nationwide basis or only in certain states. Table 1 below provides a summary of the mandates and their statuses. (For more detailed analysis of these mandates and related litigation, see CRS Report R46745, State and Federal Authority to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccination, by Wen W. Shen.) Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10681 CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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