End the Vaccine Carveout Act
Sponsored By: Representative Gosar
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Summary
The End the Vaccine Carveout Act would create a new civil right to sue vaccine manufacturers and administrators while reshaping the federal vaccine compensation system. It shifts the United States away from an exclusive reliance on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and removes COVID-19 vaccines from the federal "covered countermeasure" category.
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- Families and injured people would be able to bring state or federal lawsuits for vaccine-related injury or death. A court award or settlement would bar filing for the same injury under the federal compensation program and vice versa.
- Vaccine manufacturers and vaccine administrators would face ordinary civil liability for covered injuries and deaths. COVID-19 vaccines are explicitly excluded from the federal covered-countermeasure definition, narrowing that federal protection.
- The bill repeals parts of the existing election and trial rules under the compensation program and changes attorneys fee and payment provisions. It includes retroactivity and other conforming edits so the new civil-rights regime and the compensation program operate together.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Pick court or vaccine injury program
If enacted, you could sue a vaccine maker or administrator in state or federal court for an injury or death. You would have to choose: if you get money in court, you could not also get money from the vaccine compensation program for the same injury, and vice versa. You could file a vaccine program claim at any time, unless the new choice rule blocks it, and this timing change would apply retroactively. The bill would remove older “election to sue” rules, some trial standards, and limits that blocked program payments after suing or when funds were short. It also makes small edits to attorney-fee and program termination language.
No special legal shield for COVID vaccines
The bill would say COVID-19 vaccines are not a covered countermeasure under federal emergency rules. If enacted, this could change legal protections and liability for those vaccines and may affect market rules. The change would take effect on enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Gosar
AZ • R
Cosponsors
Biggs (AZ)
AZ • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Boebert
CO • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Brecheen
OK • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Burchett
TN • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Burlison
MO • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Davidson
OH • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Donalds
FL • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Greene (GA)
GA • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Hageman
WY • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Harris (MD)
MD • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Higgins (LA)
LA • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Jackson (TX)
TX • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Luna
FL • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Mace
SC • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Massie
KY • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Miller (IL)
IL • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Mills
FL • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Moore (AL)
AL • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Nehls
TX • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Norman
SC • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Ogles
TN • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Roy
TX • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Self
TX • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Spartz
IN • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Steube
FL • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Weber (TX)
TX • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Timmons
SC • R
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Collins
GA • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Crane
AZ • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
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