COVID Community Care Act
Latest action · Dec 1, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedDec 1, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
COVID Community Care Act
This bill provides FY2020 supplemental funding for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Indian Health Service to implement programs to prevent and respond to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) in medically underserved areas and among tribal populations, respectively. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Dec 1, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 1, 2020Introduced in Senate
- Dec 1, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 8192 | Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes. | Identical bill | Sep 8, 2020 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- COVID Community Care Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Appropriations
- Blood and blood diseases
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Community life and organization
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Education programs funding
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Health
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Higher education
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Minority health
- Right of privacy
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Unemployment
- Worker safety and health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 1, 2020Introduced in Senate
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