Title: Emergency Aid for Returning Americans Affected by Coronavirus Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Emergency Aid for Returning Americans Affected by Coronavirus Act
This bill increases the maximum amount of funding available in FY2020 for, and revises certain requirements pertaining to, temporary assistance for U.S. citizens and their dependents who are returning from foreign countries due to a crisis and are without available resources. Under current law, the Department of Health and Human Services may provide assistance such as money payments and medical care to these individuals on a temporary basis.
In providing temporary assistance during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency declared on January 31, 2020, only certain members of the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service shall have direct, in-person contact with those receiving assistance. Specifically, they must be uniformed, active-duty members of the Regular Reserve Corps or the Ready Reserve Corps. In addition, they must have received training on infection prevention and control and have access to personal protective equipment.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4091 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4091

 To amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority 
for fiscal year 2020 for increased payments for temporary assistance to 
 United States citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 29, 2020

Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority 
for fiscal year 2020 for increased payments for temporary assistance to 
 United States citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Aid for Returning 
Americans Affected by Coronavirus Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN AGGREGATE PAYMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020.

    (a) In General.--Section 1113(d) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1313(d)) is amended by striking ``fiscal years 2017 and 2018'' 
and all that follows through the period and inserting ``fiscal year 
2020, the total amount of such assistance provided during such fiscal 
year shall not exceed $10,000,000.''.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--
            (1) In general.--The amounts provided by the amendment made 
        by this section are designated as an emergency requirement 
        pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
        2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
            (2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section and 
        the amendment made by this section are designated as an 
        emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. 
        Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for fiscal year 2018.

SEC. 3. LIMIT ON DIRECT CONTACT WITH REPATRIATED INDIVIDUALS DURING 
              COVID-19 EMERGENCY PERIOD.

    During the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)(1)(B)), in providing 
temporary assistance under section 1113 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1313), 
no employee of the Administration for Children and Families of the 
Department of Health and Human Services shall have direct, in-person 
contact with an individual specified in section 1113(a)(1) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1313(a)(1)), except in the case of a uniformed member of the 
Regular Corps or the Ready Reserve Corps of the Commissioned Corps of 
the Public Health Service (as described in section 203 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204)) in an active duty status who, as 
determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has--
            (1) received appropriate training on infection prevention 
        and control; and
            (2) access to appropriate personal protective equipment.
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