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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7999 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to receive and respond 
to notifications of issues relating to the lack of personal protective equip-
ment and COVID–19 testing. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 11, 2020 
Mr. BEYER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
receive and respond to notifications of issues relating 
to the lack of personal protective equipment and 
COVID–19 testing. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supply Chain Account-
ability Act of 2020’’. 
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SEC. 2. DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND 
HUMAN SERVICES TO RECEIVE AND RE-
SPOND TO NOTIFICATIONS OF ISSUES RELAT-
ING TO THE LACK OF PERSONAL PROTEC-
TIVE EQUIPMENT AND COVID–19 TESTING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall establish and maintain, during the emer-
gency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b–5(g)(1)(B)), a process 
to receive and review the following: 
(1) Any notification from a health care provider 
that such provider is reusing personal protective 
equipment at a facility due to a shortage of such 
equipment. 
(2) Any notification from a local public health 
agency or health care provider that such agency or 
provider is unable, with respect to individuals seek-
ing a COVID–19 diagnostic test, to furnish such 
tests to all such individuals. 
(3) Any notification from a skilled nursing fa-
cility or nursing facility (as such terms are defined 
in sections 1819 and 1919, respectively, of titles 
XVIII and XIX, respectively, of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i–3, 42 U.S.C. 1396r)) that 
such skilled nursing facility or nursing facility is un-
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able to test all employees for COVID–19 at least 2 
times per week. 
(4) Any notification from a State or local public 
health agency that the average time between fur-
nishing a COVID–19 diagnostic test to an individual 
and reporting the results to such individual in the 
area in which such agency exercises jurisdiction ex-
ceeds 3 days from the date such test was so fur-
nished. 
(b) REQUIRED RESPONSE.—The Secretary shall, 
with respect to each notification received under subsection 
(a), submit to the health care provider, local public health 
agency, or skilled nursing facility or nursing facility that 
submitted such notification, and to the specified congres-
sional representatives (as defined in subsection (c)) with 
respect to such notification, not later than 30 days after 
receiving such notification, a written response that, in the 
case of a response to a notification described in— 
(1) subsection (a)(1), includes a specification of 
actions the Secretary is taking to provide personal 
protective equipment to the facility identified by the 
health care provider submitting such notification; 
(2) subsection (a)(2), includes a specification of 
actions the Secretary is taking to make additional 
COVID–19 diagnostic tests available to the local 
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(3) described in subsection (a)(3), where the 
State or local public health agency submitting such 
notification exercises jurisdiction; or 
(4) described in subsection (a)(4), where the 
skilled nursing facility or nursing facility submitting 
such notification is located. 
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