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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2076 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to create a strategy to ensure 
no individual in custody is released into the community during a public 
health emergency related to coronavirus if the individual may have a 
communicable disease relating to any public health emergency, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 19, 2021 
Mr. CLYDE (for himself, Mr. KATKO, Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina, Mr. 
NORMAN, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. GUEST, Mr. HIGGINS of 
Louisiana, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, Mr. 
SIMPSON, Mr. MAST, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Ms. VAN 
DUYNE, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. MOONEY, Mr. ROSE, Mr. 
SCHWEIKERT, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Ms. 
GRANGER, Mr. CARTER of Texas, Mrs. HARSHBARGER, and Mr. MEIJER) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 
Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to create a 
strategy to ensure no individual in custody is released 
into the community during a public health emergency 
related to coronavirus if the individual may have a com-
municable disease relating to any public health emer-
gency, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘COVID–19 Border 
Protection (CBP) Act’’. 
SEC. 2. STRATEGY RELATING TO RELEASE OF ALIENS WHO 
MAY HAVE A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE DUR-
ING A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 45 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Home-
land Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, shall finalize a strategy to ensure 
that no alien in the custody of the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, as well as no unaccompanied alien child in the 
custody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
is released into a community in the United States during 
a public health emergency related to coronavirus if the in-
dividual may have a communicable disease relating to any 
public health emergency. The Secretary shall implement 
the strategy not later than 15 days after the date on which 
the strategy is finalized, and shall submit a copy of the 
strategy to the Congress not later than 72 hours after 
such finalization. 
(b) COVID TESTING.—The strategy developed under 
subsection (a) shall include a plan— 
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(1) to test aliens coming across the United 
States border for COVID–19; and 
(2) to quarantine aliens in the event of a posi-
tive COVID–19 case. 
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of subsection (a), the 
term ‘‘public health emergency’’ means— 
(1) a public health emergency declared by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant 
to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with respect to 
the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19), includ-
ing any renewal; 
(2) a public health emergency declared for 
COVID–19 by any State, including any renewal; or 
(3) any period for which the Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in-
creases the travelers’ health risk level for intro-
ducing, transmitting, and spreading COVID–19 in 
or from Canada, Mexico, or both, to above Level 1. 
(d) FUNDING.—To the extent provided in advance in 
appropriations Acts, the cost of implementing the strategy 
under subsection (a) shall be derived from transferring to 
the Secretary of Homeland Security $100,000,000 from 
the amount appropriated to the Secretary of State under 
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section 10004 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
(Public Law 117–2). 
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