(B) OVERTIME PAY.—The entire amount 
of overtime costs, including payments related to 
backfilling personnel, that are the direct result 
of time spent on the design, development and 
conduct of Force activities are allowable ex-
penses under this section. 
(6) PLACEMENT.—To the extent feasible, as de-
termined by State, locality, territorial, Indian Tribe, 
Tribal organization, urban Indian health organiza-
tion, or health service providers to Tribes funded en-
tities, members of the Force shall be recruited from 
and serve in their home communities. Force mem-
bers may be physically co-located with local public 
health, health care, and community-based organiza-
tions, including community health centers, as deter-
mined appropriate by funded entities. 
(7) SUPERVISORY
STRUCTURES.—Members of 
the Force shall receive ongoing supportive super-
vision from staff members of State, locality, terri-
torial, Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, urban In-
dian health organization, or health service providers 
to Tribes funded entities or their sub-partners, as 
described in paragraph (9), in accordance with the 
evidence-informed practices. Entities funded under 
this section may choose the most appropriate super-
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visory structure to use based on local needs, and 
may promote Force members into supervisory roles. 
Such supervision may be also be provided by Disease 
Intervention Specialists. Funded entities may use 
funds award under grants, contacts, or cooperative 
agreements under this section to pay for such super-
visory staff and structures. 
(8) SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT.—Members of 
the Force and their supervisors shall receive all nec-
essary supplies and equipment, including personal 
protective equipment, through State, locality, terri-
torial, Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, urban In-
dian health organization, or health service providers 
to Tribes funded entities, which may use funds 
awarded under grants, contracts, or cooperative 
agreements under this section to pay for such sup-
plies and equipment. 
(9) SUBAWARDS.—As authorized by the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, State, locality, 
territorial, Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, urban 
Indian health organization, or health service pro-
viders to Tribes funded entities may make sub-
awards to local partners, including community 
health centers and other community-based and non-
profit organizations, in order to facilitate Force 
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member 
recruitment, 
management, 
supervision, 
management, and retention as well as to facilitate 
Force integration into existing public health, health 
care, and community-based services. 
(10) SERVICE
IN
PUBLIC
HEALTH
EMER-
GENCY.—A State, locality, territory, Indian Tribe, 
Tribal organization, urban Indian health organiza-
tion, or health service providers to Tribes receiving 
funding under a grant, contract, or cooperative 
agreement this section shall assign one or more 
Force members to respond to a public health emer-
gency in the area served by such entity. Such Force 
members shall be under the supervision and manage-
ment of the State, locality, territory, Indian Tribe, 
Tribal organization, urban Indian health organiza-
tion, or health service providers to Tribes involved. 
(11) SERVICE POST EMERGENCY.—A State, lo-
cality, territory, Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, 
urban Indian health organization, or health service 
providers to Tribes may retain Force members to 
continue to work in the area served by the entity 
after a public health emergency has ended in order 
to— 
(A) prevent and respond to future public 
health emergencies; and 
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(B) respond to ongoing and future public 
health and health care needs. 
(12) LIMITATION.—A Force member may not 
be assigned for international deployment on behalf 
of the Health Force. 
(13) FUNDING.—All costs associated with the 
service and functions of Force members under this 
section, including salary and employment benefits as 
well as associated direct and indirect costs, shall be 
paid by the Federal Government through grants, 
contracts, or cooperative agreements to States, local-
ities, territories, Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, 
urban Indian health organizations, or health service 
providers to Tribes. 
(e) ACTIVITIES TO RESPOND TO THE COVID–19 
PANDEMIC.—For the duration of the public health emer-
gency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with respect 
to COVID–19, the Force shall provide for the training and 
employment of Force personnel to execute a testing, con-
tact tracing, containment and mitigation strategy to com-
bat the COVID–19 pandemic, these activities should align 
with State licensure requirements and evidence-informed 
practices, including national standards developed and 
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being developed by the National Committee on Quality As-
surance: 
(1) Providing contact tracing, including the 
identification of cases of COVID–19 and their con-
tacts in a culturally competent, multilingual manner. 
(2) When available, supporting the administra-
tion of diagnostic, serologic, or other COVID–19 
tests. 
(3) Providing support that addresses social, 
economic, behavioral and preventive health needs for 
individuals affected by COVID–19, including those 
who are asked to voluntarily isolate or quarantine in 
their homes. 
(f) ACTIVITIES POST-EMERGENCY.—After the public 
health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with 
respect to COVID–19 concludes, the Force shall provide 
for the training and employment of Force personnel to 
prevent and respond to future public health emergencies 
and respond to ongoing and future public health and 
health care needs. Under this subsection, Force members 
shall carry out or assist with activities described in sub-
section (e) as well as any of the following activities, where 
aligned with State licensure requirements: 
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(1) Providing support services, including but 
not limited to— 
(A) sharing public health messages with 
community members; 
(B) helping community members address 
social, economic, behavioral health, and preven-
tive health needs using evidence-informed mod-
els and in accordance with standards, including 
national community health worker standards 
being developed by the National Center for 
Quality Assurance; and 
(C) providing community-based informa-
tion to local and tribal health departments to 
inform and improve health programming for 
hard-to-reach communities. 
(2) Other activities determined appropriate by 
the Director. 
(3) Other activities, including response to local-
ized public health emergencies, as determined appro-
priate by State, locality, territory, Indian Tribe, 
Tribal organization, urban Indian health organiza-
tion, or health service providers to Tribes funding 
recipients and in accordance with grant and coopera-
tive agreement scope and stipulations. 
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(g) FOCAL COMMUNITIES.—State, locality, terri-
torial, Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, urban Indian 
health organization, or health service providers to Tribes 
funded entities shall dedicate a substantial number of 
Force members to addressing the needs of focal commu-
nities. To be designated as a focal community, a commu-
nity shall at a minimum— 
(1) be in the bottom 50 percent of the United 
States in terms of infant mortality, poverty, or other 
measure, as recommended by the National Acad-
emies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and 
approved by the Director; 
(2) be identified as a ‘‘most vulnerable’’ com-
munity according to the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index; or 
(3) be designated as a Health Professional 
Shortage Area, Medically Underserved Area, or 
Medically Underserved Population. 
(h) COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION.— 
(1) FACILITATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall fa-
cilitate coordination and collaboration between 
the Force and other national public health serv-
ice programs within and external to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, including 
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the Public Health Service and Medical Reserve 
Corps. 
(B) ADVISORY GROUP.—Not later than 6 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Director shall convene a stakeholder advi-
sory group comprised of the leadership: of other 
national health service programs, including but 
not limited to the Public Health Service Corps, 
Medical Response Corps, and FEMA CORE; 
other relevant Federal offices and agencies, in-
cluding but not limited to the Department of 
Labor, Health Resources and Services Adminis-
tration, Health and Human Services Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and 
Response, and Occupational Health and Safety 
Administration; and leaders representing State, 
locality, territorial, Indian Tribe, Tribal organi-
zation, urban Indian health organization, or 
health service providers to Tribes funded enti-
ties. Such advisory group shall meet on a yearly 
basis to provide guidance for the programmatic 
success and longevity of the Force. 
(2) STATES, LOCALITIES, TERRITORIES, INDIAN 
TRIBES, TRIBAL
ORGANIZATIONS, URBAN
INDIAN 
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HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS, OR HEALTH SERVICE PRO-
VIDERS TO TRIBES COLLABORATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—States, localities, terri-
tories, Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, 
urban Indian health organizations, or health 
service providers to tribes shall ensure coordina-
tion and, as appropriate, collaboration between 
the Force and local public health, and health 
care, and community-based programs, to ensure 
complementarity and further strengthen the 
local public health response. 
(B) ADVISORY GROUP.—Not later than 3 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, 
an entity that receives a grant, contract, or co-
operative agreement under this section shall 
convene a stakeholder advisory group comprised 
of community leaders and other key stake-
holders to meet on a regular, recurring basis to 
provide guidance for the programmatic success 
and longevity of the Force. 
(C) STATE
COMPACTS.—In accordance 
with section 115 of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5315), two or more States to enter into agree-
ments or compacts, for cooperative effort and 
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mutual assistance in support of community de-
velopment planning and programs carried out 
under this section as such programs pertain to 
interstate areas and to localities within such 
States, and to establish such agencies, joint or 
otherwise, as such States determine appropriate 
for making such agreements and compacts ef-
fective. 
(i) MONITORING.—The Director shall develop a per-
formance monitoring template for State, locality, terri-
torial, Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, urban Indian 
health organization, or health service providers to Tribes 
funded entities adaptation and use under this section. 
Such template shall at a minimum require the reporting 
of the number of Force members hired, the role hired into, 
and the demographic characteristics of Force members. 
Such data shall be shared by entities receiving grants, con-
tracts, or cooperative agreements under this section to the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a regular, 
recurring basis. Such data shall be made publicly avail-
able. 
(j) LEARNING AND ADAPTATION.—The Director shall 
develop a learning and evaluation component of the Force 
to identify successful components of local activities con-
ducted under this section that may be replicated, to iden-
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tify opportunities for continuing education and career ad-
vancement for Force members, and to evaluate the degree 
to which the Force created a pathway to longer-term pub-
lic health and health care careers among Force members, 
and to identify how the Force impacted the health knowl-
edge, behaviors, and outcomes of the community members 
served. Results of this learning shall be made publicly 
available. 
(k) REPORTING.—Not later than 180 days after the 
end of each fiscal year, the Director shall submit to the 
Congress a report which shall contain— 
(1) a description of the progress made in ac-
complishing the objectives of Force under this sec-
tion; 
(2) a summary of the use of funds under this 
section during the preceding fiscal year; 
(3) a list of each recipient of a grant, contract, 
or cooperative agreement under this section and the 
amount of such grant, contract, or cooperative 
agreement, as well as a brief summary of the 
projects funded by each such recipient, the extent of 
financial participation by other public or private en-
tities, and the impact on employment and economic 
activity of such projects during the previous fiscal 
year; and 
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(4) a description of the activities carried out 
under this section. 
(l) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated, and there is appropriated, to carry out 
this section, $55,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2020 and 2021, such amounts to remain available 
until expended. 
(2) EMERGENCY.—The amounts appropriated 
under paragraph (1) are designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statu-
tory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)). 
(3) DESIGNATION IN SENATE.—In the Senate, 
this section is designated as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 
71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on 
the budget for fiscal year 2018. 
SEC. 3. RESILIENCE FORCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the period of fiscal years 
2020 through 2022, the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall appoint, admin-
ister, and expedite the training of a 62,000 Cadre of On- 
Call Response/Recovery Employees, under the Response 
and Recover Directorate (referred to in this section as a 
‘‘CORE employee’’) under the Office of Response and Re-
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covery, above the level of such employees in fiscal year 
2019, to address the coronavirus public health emergency 
and other disasters and public emergencies. 
(b) DETAIL OF CORE EMPLOYEES.—A CORE em-
ployee may be detailed, through mutual agreement, to any 
Federal agency that is a participating agency in the White 
House Coronavirus Task Force, or to a State, local, or 
Tribal government to fulfill an assignment for the Task 
Force, including— 
(1) providing logistical support for the supply 
chain of medical equipment and other goods involved 
in COVID–19 response efforts; 
(2) supporting COVID–19 testing and surveil-
lance activities; 
(3) providing nutritional assistance to vulner-
able populations; and 
(4) carrying out other disaster preparedness 
and response functions for other emergencies and 
natural disasters. 
(c) REQUIREMENT.—As soon as practicable, the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy shall make public job announcements to fill the CORE 
employee positions authorized under subsection (a), which 
shall prioritize hiring from among the following groups of 
individuals: 
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(1) Unemployed veterans of the Armed Forces. 
(2) Individuals who have become unemployed or 
underemployed as a result of the coronavirus public 
health emergency. 
(3) AmeriCorps members, Peace Corps Volun-
teers, or United States Fulbright Scholars who have 
had their service terms ended as a result of the 
coronavirus public health emergency. 
(4) Recent graduates of public health, medical, 
nursing, social work or related health-services pro-
grams. 
(5) Members of communities who have experi-
enced a disproportionately high number of COVID– 
19 cases. 
(d) HIRING.—The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency shall hire employees under this section, pursuant 
to section 306 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5149), and 
make use of existing statutory authorities that permit re-
gional offices and site managers to advertise for and hire 
such employees. 
(e) TRAINING.—The Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency may make appropriate 
adjustments to the standard training course curriculum 
for employees under this section to include on-site 
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trainings at Federal Emergency Management Agency re-
gional offices, virtual trainings, or trainings conducted by 
other Federal, State, local or Tribal agencies, including 
training described in section 2(d)(4). 
(f) CLARIFICATION.—For the purposes of employing 
individuals under this section— 
(1) no individual who is authorized to work in 
the United States, including individuals with De-
ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or 
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under section 
244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1254a), shall be disqualified for appointment 
under this section because of citizenship or immigra-
tion status; and 
(2) no individual shall be disqualified for ap-
pointment under this section because of bankruptcy 
or a poor credit rating determined to be the result 
of the Coronavirus public health emergency. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of 
the 
Federal 
Emergency 
Management 
Agency, 
$6,500,000,000, for each of fiscal years 2020 through 
2022, not less than $1,500,000,000 of which shall be 
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made available each such fiscal year for the administrative 
costs associated with carrying out this section. 
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