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istered by the applicable agency, including the estab-
lishment of disparity reduction standards to encom-
pass disparities in health and health care related to 
race, national origin, language, ethnicity, sex, age, 
disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. 
‘‘(2) The development and implementation of 
program-specific guidelines that interpret and apply 
Department of Health and Human Services guid-
ance under title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
and section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Af-
fordable Care Act to each Federal health program 
administered by the agency. 
‘‘(3) The development of a disparity-reduction 
impact analysis methodology that shall be applied to 
every rule issued by the agency and published as 
part of the formal rulemaking process under sections 
555, 556, and 557 of title 5, United States Code. 
‘‘(4) Oversight of data collection, analysis, and 
publication requirements for all recipients of Federal 
financial assistance under each Federal health pro-
gram administered by the agency; compliance with, 
at a minimum, the most recent version of the Office 
of Management and Budget statistical policy direc-
tive entitled ‘Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, 
and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Eth-
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nicity’; and consideration of available data and lan-
guage standards such as— 
‘‘(A) the standards for collecting and re-
porting data under section 3101; and 
‘‘(B) the National Standards on Culturally 
and Linguistically Appropriate Services of the 
Office of Minority Health. 
‘‘(5) The conduct of publicly available studies 
regarding discrimination within Federal health pro-
grams administered by the agency as well as dis-
parity reduction initiatives by recipients of Federal 
financial assistance under Federal health programs. 
‘‘(6) Annual reports to the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the 
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee 
on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives 
on the progress in reducing disparities in health and 
health care through the Federal programs adminis-
tered by the agency. 
‘‘(d) RELATIONSHIP TO OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.— 
‘‘(1) DEPARTMENT
OF
HEALTH
AND
HUMAN 
SERVICES.—The Office for Civil Rights of the De-
partment of Health and Human Services shall pro-
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vide standard-setting and compliance review inves-
tigation support services to the Civil Rights Compli-
ance Office for each agency described in subsection 
(a), subject to paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) DEPARTMENT
OF
JUSTICE.—The Office 
for Civil Rights of the Department of Justice may, 
as appropriate, institute formal proceedings when a 
civil rights compliance office established under sub-
section (a) determines that a recipient of Federal fi-
nancial assistance is not in compliance with the dis-
parity reduction standards of the applicable agency. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘Federal 
health programs’ mean programs— 
‘‘(1) under the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
301 et seq.) that pay for health care and services; 
and 
‘‘(2) under this Act that provide Federal finan-
cial assistance for health care, biomedical research, 
health services research, and programs designed to 
improve the public’s health, including health service 
programs.’’. 
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TITLE V—EXPANDED 
INSURANCE ACCESS 
SEC. 501. MEDICARE SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD FOR 
INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN COVID-19 EMER-
GENCY AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1837(i) of the Social Se-
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 1395p(i)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(5)(A) In the case of an individual who— 
‘‘(i) is eligible under section 1836 to enroll 
in the medical insurance program established by 
this part, 
‘‘(ii) did not enroll (or elected not to be 
deemed enrolled) under this section during an 
enrollment period, and 
‘‘(iii) during the emergency period (as de-
scribed in section 1135(g)(1)(B)), resided in an 
emergency area (as described in such section), 
there shall be a special enrollment period de-
scribed in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(B) The special enrollment period re-
ferred to in subparagraph (A) is the period that 
begins not later than July 1, 2020, and ends on 
the last day of the month in which the emer-
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gency 
period 
(as 
described 
in 
section 
1135(g)(1)(B)) ends.’’. 
(b) 
COVERAGE
PERIOD
FOR
INDIVIDUALS 
TRANSITIONING
FROM
OTHER
COVERAGE.—Section 
1838(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395q(e)) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘pursuant to section 1837(i)(3) 
or 1837(i)(4)(B)—’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘pursuant to— 
‘‘(1) section 1837(i)(3) or 1837(i)(4)(B)—’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and mov-
ing the indentation of each such subparagraph 2 
ems to the right; 
(3) by striking the period at the end of the sub-
paragraph (B), as so redesignated, and inserting ‘‘; 
or’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) section 1837(i)(5), the coverage period 
shall begin on the first day of the month following 
the month in which the individual so enrolls.’’. 
(c) FUNDING.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall provide for the transfer from the Federal 
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (as described in section 
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