ganizations, health service providers to Tribes, Na-
tive Hawaiian health organizations, community 
health centers, or federally qualified health centers 
(referred to in this section as ‘‘Funded Entities’’); 
(2) ensure that State, county, local health de-
partments, agencies, and community-based organiza-
tions, including community health centers and clin-
ics, receive funding from Funded Entities or directly 
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
for the recruitment, hiring, training, managing, ad-
ministration, and organization of the Force, as ap-
propriate; 
(3) provide assistance for expenses incurred by 
Funded Entities prior to the awarding of a grant, 
contract, or cooperative agreement under subpara-
graph (A) to facilitate the implementation of the 
Force, including assistance for planning and recruit-
ment activities, as provided for in section 424 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5189b); and 
(4) award and obligate funds as soon as is 
practicable, and where possible, not later than 30 
days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(d) FUNDING ALLOCATIONS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the total amount of funds 
appropriated under this section for a fiscal year— 
(A) not less than 5 percent shall be award-
ed to Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, urban 
Indian health organizations, health service pro-
viders to Tribes, or Native Hawaiian health or-
ganizations under subsection (c)(1), of which 80 
percent shall be awarded in proportion to popu-
lation size and 20 percent shall be awarded 
based on the burden of disease and disability; 
(B) not less than 80 percent shall be 
awarded to States and territories under sub-
section (c)(1), of which— 
(i) 60 percent shall be awarded in 
proportion to population size, 20 percent 
shall be awarded based on the number of 
jobs lost over the preceding 12 months in 
each State or territory as a proportion of 
all jobs lost nationally during that time-
frame, and 20 percent shall be awarded 
based on the burden of disease and dis-
ability; 
(ii) not less than 40 percent shall be 
allocated for State health departments; and 
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(iii) not less than 40 percent shall be 
allocated for county and other local health 
departments within the State. 
(2) SUPPLEMENT AND NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds 
appropriated under this section shall be used to sup-
plement, not supplant any existing funding for In-
dian Tribes, Tribal organizations, urban Indian 
health organizations, health service providers to 
Tribes, Native 
Hawaiian 
health 
organizations, 
States, territories, State health departments, county 
and other local health departments. 
(e) SERVICE.— 
(1) MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS.—The Force 
shall be composed of eligible members selected by 
Funded Entities. At a minimum, Funded Entities 
shall ensure that membership in the Force is not re-
stricted based on education or citizenship status. El-
igible individuals shall include those who are— 
(A) at least 18 years of age; and 
(B) authorized to work in the United 
States, including an individual with Deferred 
Action for Childhood Arrivals status (DACA) or 
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under sec-
tion 244 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a). 
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(2) RECRUITMENT.—With respect to the em-
ployment of Force members, Funded Entities shall 
support recruitment efforts for Force personnel who 
are from or reside in the locality in which they will 
serve, including efforts to recruit Force members 
among focal communities as described in subsection 
(h), as well as dislocated workers, individuals with 
barriers to employment, veterans, new entrants in 
the workforce, underemployed or furloughed work-
ers, graduates and students from Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Uni-
versities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and histori-
cally marginalized populations. As practicable, State 
labor offices shall share information about Force op-
portunities with those individuals applying for or re-
ceiving unemployment benefits. 
(3) PREFERENCE.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, preference in the hiring of Force 
members shall be given to individuals who are dis-
located workers, individuals with barriers to employ-
ment, veterans, new entrants in the workforce, un-
deremployed or furloughed workers, or community- 
based nonprofit or public health or health care pro-
fessionals, from focal communities as described in 
subsection (h), or unemployed or underemployed in-
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dividuals. First priority in such hiring shall be given 
to individuals who are previous employees of Funded 
Entities (or subawardees under paragraph (9)) who 
were, within the 2020 or 2021 calendar year, fur-
loughed, laid off, subject to a reduction in force, 
placed or went on leave, or have recall rights subject 
to collective bargaining agreement or applicable per-
sonnel policies. 
(4) PLACEMENT.—To the extent feasible, as de-
termined by Funded Entities, members of the Force 
shall be recruited from and serve in their home com-
munities. Force members shall be physically co-lo-
cated within State, local, territorial, Tribal health 
departments, or within other eligible organizations 
as defined by subsection (c)(1). According to local 
needs, Force members may be physically co-located 
with other local public health, health care, and com-
munity-based organizations, including community 
health centers and free and charitable clinics, as de-
termined appropriate by Funded Entities. 
(5) TRAINING.— 
(A) CONTACT TRACING TRAINING.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion (referred to in this section as ‘‘Direc-
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