S.Amdt. 2517

SA 2517. Ms. McSALLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

TITLE __--

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

public health and social services emergency fund

(including transfer of funds)

For an additional amount for ``Public Health and Social
Services Emergency Fund'', $16,000,000,000, to remain
available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and
respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally,
which shall be for necessary expenses for testing, contact
tracing, surveillance, containment, and mitigation to monitor
and suppress COVID-19, including tests for both active
infection and prior exposure, including molecular, antigen,
and serological tests, the manufacturing, procurement and
distribution of tests, testing equipment and testing
supplies, including personal protective equipment needed for
administering tests, the development and validation of rapid,
molecular point-of-care tests, and other tests, support for
workforce, epidemiology, to scale up academic, commercial,
public health, and hospital laboratories, to conduct
surveillance and contact tracing, support development of
COVID-19 testing plans, and other related activities related
to COVID-19 testing:  Provided, That of the amount
appropriated under this paragraph in this Act, not less than
$15,000,000,000 shall be for States, localities, territories,
tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health
organizations, or health service providers to tribes for
necessary expenses for testing, contact tracing,
surveillance, containment, and mitigation, including support
for workforce, epidemiology, use by employers, elementary and
secondary schools, child care facilities, institutions of
higher education, long-term care facilities, or in other
settings, scale up of testing by public health, academic,
commercial, and hospital laboratories, and community-based
testing sites, health care facilities, and other entities
engaged in COVID-19 testing, and other related activities
related to COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, surveillance,
containment, and mitigation:  Provided further, That the
amount identified in the preceding proviso shall be allocated
to States, localities, and territories according to the
formula that applied to the Public Health Emergency
Preparedness cooperative agreement in fiscal year 2019:
Provided further, That not less than $500,000,000 shall be
allocated in coordination with the Director of the Indian
Health Service, to tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian
health organizations, or health service providers to tribes:
Provided further, That the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (referred to in this paragraph as the ``Secretary'')
may satisfy the funding thresholds outlined in the first and
third provisos under this paragraph in this Act by making
awards through other grant or cooperative agreement
mechanisms:  Provided further, That the Governor or designee
of each State, locality, territory, tribe, or tribal
organization receiving funds pursuant to this title shall
update their plans, as applicable, for COVID-19 testing and
contact tracing submitted to the Secretary pursuant to the
Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act
(Public Law 116-139) and submit such updates to the Secretary
not later than 60 days after funds appropriated in this
paragraph in this Act have been awarded to such recipient:
Provided further, That funds an entity receives from amounts
described in the first proviso in this paragraph may also be
used for the rent, lease, purchase, acquisition,
construction, alteration, renovation, or equipping of non-
federally owned facilities to improve coronavirus
preparedness and response capability at the State and local
level:  Provided further, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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