S. 3095: HERD Act of 2021
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S. 3095: HERD Act of 2021
117th Congress · introduced 2021-10-28 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2021-10-28 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
HERD Act of 2021
Plain summary
Having Employees Return to Duty Act of 2021 or the HERD Act of 2021 This bill addresses federal employees who comply with Executive Order 14043 (requiring COVID-19 vaccination for federal employees). Specifically, the bill requires each federal agency, with respect to each agency employee who has complied with such order, to require the employee to work from that employee's duty station and to work the hours required as of February 15, 2020. If such an employee was not employed by the applicable agency as of that date, that requirement shall apply to the employee with respect to duty station and hours of the individual who occupied that position as of that date. An agency may implement different policies than, or supplemental policies to, those requirements, including by requiring social distancing at a particular work site, if the agency finds that (1) there is substantial transmission of COVID-19 within a community in which such requirements would otherwise be carried out, as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and (2) implementing those different or supplemental policies will not degrade the level of service that the agency provides to the public.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] · 7 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Roger Marshall (R-KS), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Rick Scott (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Barrasso (R-WY), Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] reported raising $1.5 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117s3095.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/s>
Record fed-us-cong117-s3095 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117