S.Amdt. 2526

SA 2526. Mr. TOOMEY 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:

SEC. __. PARTNERSHIPS WITH STATE ACADEMIC CENTERS AND PUBLIC
HEALTH DEPARTMENTS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services
(referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall
partner with State-based institutions of higher education (as
defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1001(a))) and public health departments to perform
statewide, regional seroprevalence studies in States with a
prevalence of COVID-19 that is greater than 1,000 per 100,000
people. Any such study shall involve, at minimum, the number
of State residents required to achieve statistical
significance to estimate seroprevalence across the State.
(b) Funding.--The Secretary shall allocate funds to carry
out this section from any unobligated amounts of the
additional amount of $25,000,000,000 appropriated to the
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, under the
heading ``Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund''
under the heading ``Office of the Secretary'' under the
heading ``Department of Health and Human Services'' under
title I of division B of the Paycheck Protection Program and
Health Care Enhancement Act (Public Law 116-139) for
necessary expenses to research, develop, validate,
manufacture, purchase, administer, and expand capacity for
COVID-19 tests to effectively monitor and suppress COVID-19.
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