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Pandemic Community Reserve and Public Health Response Act

Introduced: July 30, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Jul 28, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Jul 27, 2020
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jul 27, 2020
Introduced in House
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Pandemic Community Reserve and Public Health Response Act

This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants and otherwise expand the federal public health reserve corps, including by reactivating retired personnel, to assist with COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) response efforts. This corps includes, among others, the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, the Medical Reserve Corps, and certain personnel of the Federal Emergency Management Agency appointed to respond to disasters and emergencies.

Specifically, HHS must award grants to governmental health departments to recruit and train personnel to serve in the federal public health reserve corps and assist with COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and treatment. To carry out these grants, health departments may establish partnerships with institutions that offer medical training and public health programs, giving priority to partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions. HHS must also develop a training program, in consultation with the Department of Defense, that addresses activation and surge capacity of the reserve corps to respond to COVID-19.

In addition, HHS must award grants, in consultation with the Department of Labor, to local workforce development boards to develop career plans and other activities to facilitate the transition of reserve corps personnel to other health-related occupations.

What's happening now July 28, 2020

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2
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Carson, André
Indiana · Aug 7, 2020
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Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · Aug 7, 2020
ROYBAL-ALLARD, LUCILLE
· Jul 30, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7801: Pandemic Community Reserve and Public Health Response Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7801/
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