H.R. 81
Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2025
In Plain Language
This bill prevents federal agencies from requiring people to wear face masks on planes, trains, buses, and in transportation hubs. It also officially cancels the 2021 CDC mask order for transportation that had already stopped being enforced in 2022, and the TSA orders related to it. The COVID-19 public health emergency already ended in 2023, so this bill makes that change permanent in law.
Official Congressional Research Service summary
Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2025This bill prohibits federal agencies from imposing a mandate related to COVID-19 that requires the use of face masks on conveyances (e.g., planes, trains, and buses) and at transportation hubs.Further, the bill nullifies (1) the emergency order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 29, 2021, that mandates such use of face masks on public and commercial conveyances and at transportation hubs, and (2) orders and directives of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that relate to the CDC order.As background, the CDC and TSA ceased enforcement of the emergency order following an April 18, 2022, court order. Further, the COVID-19 public health emergency expired on May 11, 2023.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Jan 4, 2025
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