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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6525 
To provide the necessary Federal financial and logistical support so States 
can reopen their economies once periods of isolation have sufficiently 
reduced coronavirus infection and transmission rates, and with adequate 
testing and other safeguards to ensure infection rates do not exceed 
medical resources, and virus transmission rates are maintained below 
1 and thereby steadily reduce the number of infected, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 17, 2020 
Mr. RASKIN (for himself, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. 
WELCH, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. MALINOWSKI, Mr. 
BUTTERFIELD, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. CISNEROS, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of 
Illinois, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mrs. DINGELL, 
Mr. TAKANO, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Ms. GARCIA of 
Texas, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. CASTEN of Illinois, Ms. 
SCHRIER, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. SOTO, Mr. CASE, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. HAALAND, Mr. CLAY, Mr. 
DEUTCH, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mr. ROUDA, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. COX of California, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. 
GARAMENDI, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
RYAN, Mr. POCAN, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. RUSH) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, 
and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide the necessary Federal financial and logistical 
support so States can reopen their economies once peri-
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ods of isolation have sufficiently reduced coronavirus in-
fection and transmission rates, and with adequate testing 
and other safeguards to ensure infection rates do not 
exceed medical resources, and virus transmission rates 
are maintained below 1 and thereby steadily reduce the 
number of infected, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; DEFINITIONS; FINDINGS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Reopen America Act of 2020’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘coronavirus’’ means SARS– 
CoV–2. 
(2) The term ‘‘Governor’’ means the chief exec-
utive officer of a State. 
(3) The term ‘‘reopening plan’’ means a 
coronavirus State economy reopening plan under 
section 2. 
(4) Except as otherwise specified, the term 
‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services. 
(5) The term ‘‘State’’ means any of the several 
States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal govern-
ment, or a territory of the United States. 
(c) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The majority of States have imposed forms 
of extreme social isolation, including strict limita-
tions on businesses and social behaviors, to reduce 
coronavirus transmission rates and avoid cata-
strophic harms to health from infections. 
(2) Despite the necessity of such economic and 
social restrictions, it is critically important to the 
economy of the United States to progressively loosen 
these restrictions and to reopen economic and social 
activity as soon and by as much as possible, but this 
reopening must occur under conditions that ensure 
infection transmission rates do not rise again, and 
that infections do not overwhelm health services, 
cause unnecessary deaths and illnesses, or neces-
sitate successive new rounds of social isolation. 
(3) Planning and implementation of State safe-
guards will be critical to the achievement of success-
ful economic and social reopening. 
(4) Large increases in test kits, machines, and 
testing supplies and of protective gear and supplies 
designed to limit disease transmission, are essential 
to the implementation of reopening plans that do not 
lead to unacceptable increases in transmission rates 
and maximize the level and rate of economic reopen-
ing. 
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(5) Once effective treatments become proven, 
quickly scaling up their production is also necessary 
to save lives and to increase the capacity of the 
country to remain open. 
(6) Because of market uncertainties and the 
limited time for production, the necessary level of 
production will not occur without aggressive govern-
ment purchasing and market guaranties and 
prioritization of necessary resources. 
(7) It is in the public interest for the Federal 
Government to assume the added costs of State re-
opening plans and to support such plans with nec-
essary technical support and coordinated procure-
ment and distribution of necessary supplies. 
(8) Because extensive testing for coronavirus 
protection will be a critical component of reopening 
strategies, it is necessary for the Federal Govern-
ment to advance understanding of the capacities and 
potential uses of different, and rapidly emerging, 
tests. 
SEC. 2. CORONAVIRUS STATE REOPENING PLANS AND 
STATE PARTNERSHIP PROCUREMENT PLANS. 
(a) SUBMISSION OF PLAN.—Any Governor of a State 
may submit a reopening plan to the Secretary for the pur-
pose of allowing the maximum level of economic and social 
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activity in the State while simultaneously achieving the 
public health goals specified in subsection (c). 
(b) FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT.—Once per month, 
or on a more frequent schedule as specified by the Sec-
retary— 
(1) the Governor of a State with a reopening 
plan with an approval in effect under subsection (d) 
may submit for reimbursement the sum of covered 
expenses of the State with appropriate documenta-
tion as specified by the Secretary; and 
(2) the Secretary shall reimburse the State for 
such covered expenses so long as the State is making 
reasonable efforts to implement the plan. 
(c) PUBLIC HEALTH GOALS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), a 
reopening plan achieves the public health goals spec-
ified in this subsection if the plan provides reason-
able assurance that— 
(A) infection and transmission rates at the 
time of the commencement of reopening will not 
exceed the capacity of local hospitals to safely 
treat all patients using available treatment 
methods without resorting to crisis standards of 
care; and 
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(B) sufficient safeguards will be imple-
mented— 
(i) to keep transmission rates of 
coronavirus below 1 within the State; and 
(ii) to identify and take effective ac-
tions to curb local infection outbreaks be-
fore they lead to hospitalization rates that 
exceed the capacity of local hospital serv-
ices to safely treat all patients without re-
sorting to crisis standards of care. 
(2) SPECIAL
RULE.—A reopening plan may 
allow for some limited initial relaxation of social iso-
lation requirements even while infection rates are 
above those specified in paragraph (1)(A) so long 
as— 
(A) the plan will keep transmission rates 
below 1; and 
(B) the limited initial relaxation will not 
appreciably increase infection rates. 
(d) PLAN APPROVAL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In consultation with the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall approve or disapprove any re-
opening plan submitted under subsection (a) within 
5 business days of submission if— 
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(A) the plan provides reasonable assur-
ances of achieving the public health goals speci-
fied in subsection (c); 
(B) the plan includes appropriate docu-
mentation as specified by the Secretary, includ-
ing the contents required by subsection (e); and 
(C) the actions identified in the plan are 
not clearly excessive for achieving the public 
health goals specified in subsection (c). 
(2) RESUBMISSION.—If the Secretary dis-
approves a reopening plan, or any revision of a re-
opening plan— 
(A) the Secretary shall provide an expla-
nation of the disapproval to the Governor sub-
mitting the plan or revision; and 
(B) the Governor of the State involved 
may— 
(i) consult the Secretary concerning 
the changes to the plan or revision needed 
for approval; and 
(ii) revise and resubmit as many times 
as needed to obtain approval. 
(3) REVISIONS.—A Governor may submit revi-
sions to the reopening plan of the respective State 
as circumstances evolve, and the Secretary shall ap-
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prove or disapprove each such revision within 5 busi-
ness days of submission. 
(4) DEEMED APPROVED.—A reopening plan or 
a revision to a reopening plan shall be deemed to be 
approved if the Secretary fails to approve or dis-
approve the plan or revision within 5 business days 
of submission. 
(5) EXPENSES.—In approving a reopening 
plan, the Secretary may preapprove a proposed 
schedule of reimbursements for covered expenses in 
agreement with the Governor. If an expense schedule 
is not preagreed, the Governor may carry out the 
plan and obtain reimbursement for the reasonable 
cost of covered expenses. No reimbursement shall 
occur for goods and services provided directly to a 
State or territory by the Coronavirus Health Equip-
ment Production Board. In the case of a dispute, a 
Governor may seek review of the Secretary’s reim-
bursement decision in the United States Court of 
Federal Claims. 
(e) CONTENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A reopening plan shall speci-
fy— 
(A) the level and timing of the relaxation 
of social distancing rules adopted in 2020 in 
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the State to reduce the risk of coronavirus in-
fections; 
(B) the replacement measures the State 
will take; and 
(C) the reopening safeguards the State will 
impose to limit coronavirus infections. 
(2) REOPENING
SAFEGUARDS.—A reopening 
plan shall specify safeguards to achieve the public 
health goals specified in subsection (c). Such safe-
guards may include any of the following: 
(A) Testing, including publicly adminis-
tered testing, employment-based testing require-
ments, mobile testing programs, school-based 
testing, or other testing requirements for social 
activities, and group testing. 
(B) Requirements for wearing of masks 
and other protective gear in employment and 
social activities, including requirements that 
vary by type of work, by risk factors of individ-
uals, and by activities such as use of mass tran-
sit. 
(C) Requirements for public or private 
temperature readings or other simple screenings 
for coronavirus infections, and follow-up re-
quirements for testing or isolation. 
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(D) Demonstrated public procedures, rules, 
personnel, and other resources and capacities 
for identifying infected individuals, tracing and 
testing their contacts, and quarantining in-
fected individuals. 
(E) The types of activities reopened, condi-
tions of reopening, and timing of reopening. 
(F) Increases in medical capacities and 
ability to shift capacities to address local out-
breaks. 
(3) EVIDENCE
OF
ADEQUACY.—A reopening 
plan shall include the analysis of public health and 
other scientific experts used to assess the adequacy 
of the plan for achieving the public health goals 
specified in subsection (c), and such other informa-
tion as the Secretary shall, within 10 business days 
of the date of enactment of this Act, require to be 
included. 
(f) STATE PARTNERSHIP PROCUREMENT PLANS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Prior to and in conjunction 
with submission of a reopening plan, Governors of 
two or more States may submit a State Partnership 
Procurement Plan to obtain Federal financing of 
State agreements with suppliers to increase produc-
tion and thereby to more reliably assure a level of 
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testing or other goods and services that would be 
valuable for carrying out the reopening plans of such 
States. 
(2) REVIEW
AND
ADMINISTRATION.—A State 
Partnership Procurement Plan shall be approved by 
the Secretary in consultation with the Secretary of 
the Treasury if it will reasonably contribute to the 
implementation of the State reopening plans. In re-
viewing such a State Partnership Procurement Plan 
for approval, and in reimbursing States for the costs 
of such plans, the Secretary shall follow the proce-
dures set forth in paragraphs (2) through (5) of 
subsection (d). 
(3) FEMA.—The Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall work with 
States, if requested, in the development and carrying 
out of procurement plans under paragraph (1). 
(g) REPORTING.—Every two weeks, or on such sched-
ule as the Secretary may specify, the Governor of a State 
with an approved reopening plan shall provide to the Sec-
retary such information as necessary and as specified by 
the Secretary to assess whether implementation of the 
plan is achieving the public health goals specified in sub-
section (c). 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) The term ‘‘covered expenses’’ means the 
reasonable costs associated with the following re-
opening plan activities: 
(A) Costs of testing equipment, kits, lab-
oratory processing, and test administration, ex-
cluding costs of testing by medical personnel 
that are otherwise covered by private or public 
health insurance. 
(B) Costs of implementing containment 
tracking, testing, and quarantine. 
(C) Public costs of information and compli-
ance systems needed to implement the plan, 
provide public information, and track compli-
ance. 
(D) Costs of implementing any certifi-
cation systems. 
(E) The costs of cleaning public facilities 
and infrastructure to avoid coronavirus con-
tamination beyond the typical cleaning of such 
facilities and infrastructure. 
(F) Costs of increasing hospital capacity to 
address COVID–19 patients except that treat-
ment of such costs as covered expenses shall be 
at the discretion of the Secretary. 
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(G) Reasonable State expenses undertaken 
in development of the plan. 
(2) The term ‘‘reasonable costs’’ shall be based 
on— 
(A) a schedule of costs preapproved by the 
Secretary and agreed upon by the Governor; or 
(B) a process to be prescribed by the Sec-
retary for determination of the reasonableness 
of expenses. 
(i) FUNDING.—The Secretary may, without further 
appropriation, obligate and expend such sums as may be 
necessary for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 to carry out this 
section. 
SEC. 3. GUIDING POLICY OF FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY 
FOR ECONOMY REOPENING. 
The Federal Government shall ensure an adequate 
national supply of testing, protective gear, and critical 
medical resources and other equipment and supplies to en-
able States to be able to develop and administer reopening 
plans that meet both public health and economic recovery 
goals. 
SEC. 4. CORONAVIRUS HEALTH EQUIPMENT PRODUCTION 
BOARD. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Defense 
Logistics Agency shall establish, within 5 business days 
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of enactment of this Act, in the Defense Logistics Agency 
of the Department of Defense a board, to be known as 
the Coronavirus Health Equipment Production Board (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘Board’’). 
(b) MEMBERS.—The members of the Board shall 
consist of— 
(1) the Director of the Defense Logistics Agen-
cy (or the Director’s delegate), who shall serve as 
the Chair of the Board; 
(2) the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (or the Director’s delegate); 
(3) the Director of the Biomedical Advanced 
Research Development Agency (or the Director’s 
delegate); 
(4) the Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency (or the Administrator’s 
delegate); 
(5) the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (or 
the Commissioner’s delegate); and 
(6) the Director of the National Institute of Al-
lergy and Infectious Diseases (or the Director’s dele-
gate). 
(c) DUTIES.—The Board shall— 
(1) engage in the activities listed in subsection 
(d) as appropriate to ensure adequate national and 
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regional availability of medical and testing equip-
ment and supplies, and other goods and services for 
responding to the coronavirus epidemic and imple-
mentation of reopening plans; and 
(2) ensure development of the manufacturing 
and distribution capacity needed to be able to 
produce and distribute as rapidly as possible valu-
able coronavirus treatments and vaccines as they be-
come available. 
(d) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out this section, the 
Board may engage in any of the following: 
(1) Evaluating needs, uses, and potential short-
ages of supplies and equipment. 
(2) Procuring and distributing supplies and 
equipment. 
(3) Providing financial guaranties for all or 
portions of the costs of production of any goods and 
services. 
(4) Contracting for advisory services. 
(e) STAFF OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Upon request 
of the Chair of the Board, the head of any Federal depart-
ment or agency may detail any of the personnel of that 
department or agency to the Board to assist it in carrying 
out its duties under this section. 
(f) PROCUREMENT METHODS.—The Board— 
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(1) shall make maximum effort to carry out its 
procurement using voluntary methods; and 
(2) may, if the Board determines necessary, use 
the authorities granted the President under titles I 
and III of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
U.S.C. 4501 et seq.). 
(g) FUNDING.—The Board may, without further ap-
propriation in fiscal years 2020 and 2021, obligate and 
expend such sums as are necessary, as determined by the 
Board, to carry out this section, except that the Board 
may obligate and expend not more than $75,000,000 in 
each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021, for administrative 
costs. 
SEC. 5. GUIDANCE FOR STATE REOPENING PLANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the date that is 
2 weeks after the date of enactment of this Act, using 
the best available information, including information gen-
erated in implementing this Act, the Secretary shall issue 
guidance on the development of reopening plans that eval-
uates the efficiency of different safeguards and the capac-
ity of different combinations of safeguards to meet the 
public health goals of such plans while maximizing social 
and economic reopening. 
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(b) UPDATES.—Not less than every two weeks, the 
Secretary shall update such guidance as appropriate to re-
flect changes in knowledge and information. 
SEC. 6. IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF CORONAVIRUS 
TESTING AND CONTRIBUTION TO REOPEN-
ING PLANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Biomedical 
Advanced Research and Development Authority (in this 
section referred to as the ‘‘Director’’), in coordination with 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention, shall carry out an emergency program to evaluate 
on an expedited basis both the reliability of different tests 
and forms of testing and the capacity of those tests to 
contribute to reopening plans. 
(b) PROGRAM COMPONENTS.—This program under 
this section shall recognize the different practicalities to 
scale up different forms of tests, including self-adminis-
tered and professionally administered tests, and shall in-
clude the following: 
(1) 
EVALUATION
OF
SELF-ADMINISTERED 
TESTS.—The Director shall institute, on an expe-
dited basis, an evaluation of those promising self-ad-
ministered test products that have the capacity to 
provide cost-effective, high volume human testing of 
either presence of active virus or proof of prior infec-
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tion and likely immunity or resistance to reinfection. 
The Director shall establish a network of hospitals 
and research institutions capable of carrying out 
these analyses, and shall quickly develop protocols 
for such testing with a goal of providing useful in-
formation within one week and more complete infor-
mation in two weeks. 
(2) EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONALLY ADMIN-
ISTERED TESTS.—The Director shall review infor-
mation regarding different tests that have been de-
veloped that require independent technical personnel 
and shall conduct such independent evaluations as 
the Director determines will be helpful to determine 
those mechanisms that have the greatest potential to 
contribute to reopening plans. 
(3) EVALUATION OF POPULATION-LEVEL TEST-
ING.—The Director shall evaluate the potential and 
feasibility of population-level testing for contributing 
to State reopening plans. For purposes of this para-
graph, the term ‘‘population-level testing’’ means 
testing of significant parts of the population that 
might be accomplished other than at points of med-
ical care, and may include testing of the entire or 
portions of the population, random testing, rota-
tional testing, mobile testing programs, and testing 
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of categories of individuals at high risk of becoming 
infected or passing on infections. 
(4) POTENTIAL SCALE-UP.—The Director shall 
consult with the industry and shall determine the 
maximum technical and economic capacity and 
shortest times that would be possible to scale up 
production and supplies of different methods of test-
ing. 
(5) DETERMINATION OF INFECTION RATES.— 
The Director shall implement an emergency sero-
logic testing program in at least two distinct geo-
graphic areas of high infection rates to help deter-
mine levels of infection relative to levels of those 
with symptoms, those hospitalized, and those in need 
of intensive care. 
(6) USE OF TESTS IN REOPENING PLANS.—The 
Director shall evaluate the potential and logistics of 
different forms of testing, including mobile testing 
units, using different products as appropriate, to 
contribute to reopening plans. Possible ways of using 
testing to be evaluated shall include using different 
forms of tests as a way to filter those available for 
employment or eligible to engage on other social ac-
tivities, use of tests for contact tracing and quar-
antine, use of tests for particular categories of high- 
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contact employment, and use of population-level test-
ing. Based on these analyses and the best available 
information regarding sources and levels of disease 
transmission, the Director shall provide as soon as 
possible recommendations for how different forms of 
testing under different requirements might be capa-
ble of contributing to reopening plans and shall up-
date these recommendations as new information be-
comes available. 
(7) ASSISTANCE BY GOVERNMENT.—All Federal 
departments and agencies shall make available on an 
emergency basis any requested or useful information 
to the Director and to the Coronavirus Testing Advi-
sory Panel for carrying out this section. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—For the period beginning on 
the date of enactment of this Act and ending at the end 
of fiscal year 2021, the Director may expend such funds, 
without further appropriation, as necessary as determined 
by the Director for carrying out this section. 
SEC. 7. CORONAVIRUS REOPENING ADVISORY PANEL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Within 10 business days of the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense 
Logistics Agency shall establish a panel, to be known as 
the Coronavirus Reopening Advisory Panel, to advise the 
Secretary and the members of the Coronavirus Health 
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Equipment Production Board in carrying out their duties 
and authorities under this Act. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The membership of the Ad-
visory Panel shall consist of— 
(A) three epidemiologists or other experts 
in public health; 
(B) three experts in economics or business; 
(C) three experts in production systems; 
and 
(D) three experts with experience directly 
representing workers and ensuring their health 
and safety in the workplace. 
(2) APPOINTMENT.—The President, the Speak-
er of the House of Representatives, and the majority 
leader of the Senate shall each appoint 1 member of 
the Advisory Panel in each of the 4 categories listed 
in paragraph (1). 
(3) CHAIR.—At the first meeting of the Advi-
sory Panel, the Advisory Panel shall select a chair 
of the Advisory Panel from among its members. 
(4) PAY.—Each member of the Advisory Panel 
shall be paid at a rate equal to the daily equivalent 
of the annual rate of basic pay for level I of the Ex-
ecutive Schedule for each day (including travel time) 
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during which such member is engaged in the actual 
performance of duties vested in the Advisory Panel. 
(c) OBTAINING
OFFICIAL
DATA.—The Advisory 
Panel may secure directly from any department or agency 
of the United States information necessary to enable the 
Advisory Panel to carry out this section. Upon request of 
the Chair of the Advisory Panel, the head of that depart-
ment or agency shall furnish that information to the Advi-
sory Panel. 
(d) INDEPENDENCE.—The Advisory Panel shall for-
mulate and deliver advice pursuant to this section on an 
independent basis and shall not be required by any execu-
tive branch official to limit or alter its advice. 
(e) PUBLIC SUMMARY.—Not less than every 2 weeks, 
the Advisory Panel shall publish a public summary of the 
advice provided by the Advisory Panel under this section. 
(f) RELATION TO OTHER LAW.—The Federal Advi-
sory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to 
the Advisory Panel. 
(g) FUNDING.—The Director of the Defense Logis-
tics Agency shall fund the costs of this panel from the 
sums authorized and appropriated to the Coronavirus 
Health Equipment Production Board. 
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