S.Amdt. 1782

SA 1782. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. ___. STUDY AND REPORT ON SURGE CAPACITY OF DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE TO ESTABLISH NEGATIVE AIR ROOM
CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS IN MILITARY MEDICAL
TREATMENT FACILITIES.

(a) Study.--The Director of the Defense Health Agency shall
conduct a study on the use, scalability, and military
requirements for commercial off the shelf negative air
pressure room containment systems in order to improve
pandemic preparedness at military medical treatment
facilities worldwide, to include an assessment of whether
such systems would improve the readiness of the Department of
Defense to expand capability and capacity to evaluate and
treat patients at such facilities during a pandemic.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense Health
Agency shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the
findings of the study conducted under subsection (a).
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