Pandemic Community Reserve and Public Health Response Act
Latest action · Jul 28, 2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 27, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 30, 2020 to Aug 7, 2020.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Jul 30, 2020 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Aug 7, 2020 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Aug 7, 2020 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2020Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- Jul 27, 2020Introduced in House
- Jul 27, 2020Referred 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Allied health services
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Community life and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Homeland Security
- Education programs funding
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employment and training programs
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Health
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Higher education
- Hospital care
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Medical education
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Military personnel and dependents
- Minority employment
- Minority health
- National Guard and reserves
- Nursing
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Unemployment
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Youth employment and child labor
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 27, 2020Introduced in House
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