Alabama state Rep. Ernie Yarbrough, R-Trinity, has filed a bill that would prohibit health care providers from conditioning the donation or receipt of an organ on a person’s vaccine status.

The bill HB519, is also known as The Adaline Deal Act, named for a 12-year-old Indiana girl who is distantly related to Vice President JD Vance, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Deal has been barred from a spot on the heart transplant list because she has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and the flu, her parents say.

Deal’s mother, Jeneen, told the publication that she and her husband believe the vaccines are unsafe.

She said they made the decision not to vaccinate their daughter after “the Holy Spirit put it on our hearts.”

The couple adopted Adaline from China when she was 4 years old.

She was born with two heart conditions, and they adopted Adaline knowing she would one day need a heart transplant, according to a GoFundMe the family started.

They are now planning to use the funds to take Adaline to a different transplant center that won’t require her to be vaccinated.

So far, the page has raised over $65,000.

Transplant centers set their own vaccine requirements, according to the American Journal of Transplantation.

And Cincinatti Children’s vaccine requirement follows guidelines from the National Institutes of Health, according to its website.

Guidelines published by the American Journal of Transplantation and Stanford Health Care also recommend COVID and flu vaccines, among others, not only for organ recipients, but for any of their immediate family members.

This is because organ transplant recipients are severely immunocompromised and at a much higher risk for infections, the texts state.

“The first year after transplant is when they’re at highest risk for infection, but they do have a lifelong risk of severe disease and transplant patients are still dying because of COVID-19,” Dr. Camille Kotton, the clinical director of transplant and immunocompromised host infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the New York Post.

But Janeen told the publication she was confident that her family, including their 11 other children, also unvaccinated, would not have any problems with COVID-19 after the transplant.

“We’ll take it as we can if it happens,” she said.

“But I know I cannot put this (vaccine) in her body knowing what we know and how we feel about it.”

Under HB519, Alabama’s Attorney General would be authorized to levy a $50,000 fine against any party that denied an organ donation or receipt based on someone’s vaccination status.

The bill is currently pending action in the House Committee on Health.

Yarbrough and representatives for the Alabama Hospital Association did not respond to requests for comment from AL.com.

U.S. Reps. Erin Houchin, R- Ind., and Mike Rulli, R-Ohio, last month introduced a similar bill, the COVID-19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act, in the House of Representatives.