Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2025

# Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2025

This bill aims to prevent the federal government from requiring travelers to wear masks on public transportation. Specifically, it would prohibit federal agencies — such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Health and Human Services — from imposing mask mandates on passengers and workers using airplanes, buses, trains, subways, rideshare vehicles, and other forms of public transit. It would also likely apply to transportation hubs like airports and train stations.

The bill affects virtually anyone who uses public transportation in the United States, including daily commuters, airline passengers, transit workers, and rideshare users. If enacted, no federal agency could issue or enforce rules requiring face coverings as a condition of using these transportation services. This would apply regardless of public health circumstances, meaning that even during a future pandemic or health emergency, the federal government would be barred from implementing such requirements on transit systems.

It is worth noting that while there is currently no active federal mask mandate for transportation (a previous CDC order was struck down by a federal court in 2022), this bill would put a permanent statutory ban in place to ensure such a mandate cannot be reinstated in the future. The bill has been referred to several House committees — Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and Homeland Security — for review, but has not yet advanced beyond the committee stage.