access, and analysis or access to relevant ana-
lytics, with respect to— 
(i) the public; 
(ii) State, local, Tribal, and territorial 
health departments; 
(iii) hospitals; and 
(iv) Federal agency officials, including 
officials in the Department of Health and 
Human Services and Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention; and 
(B) any impact to, or interruptions in, de-
livery of supplies, including personal protective 
equipment, ventilators, and COVID–19 thera-
peutics, to States or other entities resulting 
from any changes or interruptions described in 
paragraph (1). 
(b) ACCESS TO REPORTING SYSTEM.—The Secretary 
shall, not later than 7 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, provide the Comptroller General with access 
to the information technology systems maintained by the 
Department of Health and Human Services to enable the 
Comptroller General to independently access, view, 
download, and retrieve data from such systems for the 
purpose of carrying out this section. 
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(c) ADDRESSING ISSUES.—Not later than 7 days 
after the Comptroller General submits the findings to Con-
gress pursuant to subsection (a)(2), the Secretary shall— 
(1) correct any decreases or delays identified by 
the Comptroller General in the findings; 
(2) address issues with respect to data quality, 
sharing, transparency, access, and analysis and ac-
cess to relevant analytics; and 
(3) ensure that such data quality, sharing, 
transparency, access, and analysis and access to rel-
evant analytics are equal to or better than they were 
as of July 12, 2020. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a 
report on the impact of changes or interruptions to 
COVID–19 hospital data reporting requirements described 
in subsection (a). In preparing such report, the Comp-
troller General shall collect information from relevant 
stakeholders, as appropriate. Such report shall— 
(1) detail any such changes or interruptions to 
data quality, sharing, transparency, access, and 
analysis, or access to relevant analytics, for the enti-
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ties described in subsection (a)(2)(A), including 
whether such changes or interruptions increased, de-
creased, expedited, or delayed such data or access to 
relevant analytics; 
(2) describe challenges faced by hospitals, 
States, localities, Indian Tribes (as defined in sec-
tion 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)), Urban In-
dian organizations (as defined in section 4 of the In-
dian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1603)), territories, Federal agencies, and the public 
resulting from such changes or interruptions; 
(3) describe the extent to which such changes 
or interruptions may allow for manipulation of such 
data in a manner that results in the entities de-
scribed in paragraph (2) receiving information that 
is different from information provided to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services; 
(4) assess the extent to which such changes or 
interruptions increased or decreased the number of 
hospitals reporting data and the completeness and 
quality of data reported by hospitals; 
(5) determine whether any States deployed the 
National Guard to assist in hospital data reporting 
(as suggested in communications from the White 
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House Coronavirus Task Force and the Department 
of Health and Human Services on July 13, 2020) 
and whether any such deployment had a measurable 
effect on the speed, content, or quality of such re-
porting; 
(6) describe the decision-making process within 
the Department of Health and Human Services that 
led to the changes initiated on July 13, 2020, in-
cluding— 
(A) the role of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention in such process; 
(B) any analysis conducted by the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services or the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
that assessed the quality and completeness of 
different data streams (including the National 
Healthcare Safety Network, TeleTracking, and 
data reported by States to the Protect System 
of the Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices), prior to July 13, 2020; 
(C) any external input into the decision- 
making process, including from other Federal 
agencies, States, localities, Indian Tribes (as 
defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 
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U.S.C. 5304)), Urban Indian organizations (as 
defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603)), terri-
tories, or hospitals; 
(D) the public health justification for the 
changes; and 
(E) any other justification for such 
changes; and 
(7) assess the process used to address— 
(A) decreases or delays identified under 
subsection (c)(1); and 
(B) issues described in subsection (c)(2). 
(e) INTERIM REPORT.—Not later than 6 months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comp-
troller General shall submit to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of 
the Senate an interim report on the initial findings with 
respect to information required to be in the report under 
subsection (d). 
SEC. 3. CORRECTING INACCURACIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, in 
coordination with the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention and reporting entities, develop a 
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process to correct inaccurate information collected, re-
ported, or distributed with respect to the COVID–19 pub-
lic health emergency declared pursuant to section 319 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d). 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The process under subsection 
(a) shall— 
(1) identify and correct inaccurate information 
in a timely manner; 
(2) consider data made available by— 
(A) the Department of Health and Human 
Services and the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention; and 
(B) reporting entities (including data pro-
vided to the Secretary in accordance with the 
State plans referred to in subsection (e)); 
(3) permit the public to report on inaccurate in-
formation described in subsection (a); and 
(4) include technical assistance, as necessary, 
for reporting entities. 
(c) PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall, in 
a manner that protects personally identifiable information 
from disclosure and complies with applicable Federal law 
on privacy— 
(1) in a timely manner, notify the public of— 
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(A) inaccurate information identified pur-
suant to the process developed under subsection 
(a); and 
(B) the steps used to correct the inac-
curate information; and 
(2) after notifying the public under paragraph 
(1), in a reasonable period of time, make a public 
certification that such inaccurate information has 
been corrected. 
(d) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue 
guidance to reporting entities with respect to identifying 
and correcting inaccurate information described in sub-
section (a) in the data collected, reported, or distributed 
by such agencies. Such guidance shall include a method— 
(1) to notify the Secretary when such inac-
curate information is identified; and 
(2) to collaborate with the Secretary to correct 
and notify the public of such inaccurate information 
in accordance with subsection (c). 
(e) STATE PLANS.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall re-
quire each State that submitted to the Secretary a 
COVID–19 testing plan under the heading ‘‘Public Health 
and Social Services Emergency Fund’’ in title I of division 
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B of the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care 
Enhancement Act (Public Law 116–139) to update the 
plan to include a process for correcting inaccurate infor-
mation described in subsection (a) based on the guidance 
issued under subsection (d). 
(f) REPORTS.— 
(1) PRELIMINARY REPORTS.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment this Act, and 
every 30 days thereafter, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Sen-
ate a preliminary report on— 
(A) the inaccurate information that is cor-
rected the most through the process developed 
under subsection (a); and 
(B) best practices for identifying, cor-
recting, and notifying the public of such inac-
curate information. 
(2) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 3 months 
after the end of the public health emergency de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit 
to the committees referred to in paragraph (1) a 
final report on— 
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(A) the inaccurate information described in 
paragraph (1)(A); and 
(B) the effectiveness of the process devel-
oped under subsection (a) to address such inac-
curate information. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
COMPTROLLER
GENERAL.—The 
term 
‘‘Comptroller General’’ means the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States. 
(2) REPORTING ENTITIES.—The term ‘‘report-
ing entities’’ means State, territorial, and local 
health departments, hospitals, and any other entity 
that either directly or indirectly reports information 
to the Secretary with respect to the COVID–19 pub-
lic health emergency declared pursuant to section 
319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
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