Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Maintaining Objectionable Orders Narrows the Sick’s Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022” or the “MOONSHOT Act of 2022”.
Maintaining Objectionable Orders Narrows the Sick’s Hope for Organ Transplants Act of 2022
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit hospitals from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on vaccination status.
Sec. 2 Prohibiting hospitals from removing individuals from organ transplant lists based on vaccination status
Section 1866(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395cc(a)(1)) is amended—
in subparagraph (X), by striking “and” at the end;
in subparagraph (Y)(ii)(V), by striking the period and inserting “, and”; and
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
“(Z) in the case of a hospital or critical access hospital, to refrain from removing an individual from an organ transplant list maintained by such hospital or critical access hospital, from refusing to add an individual to such a list, or from otherwise adjusting an individual’s status on such a list, based on whether such individual has been vaccinated against COVID–19.”