Title: To make a supplemental appropriation for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program of the Federal Communications Commission for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
This bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
Under the program, the FCC provides funding for health care providers to purchase telecommunications services, information services, and devices necessary to provide critical connected care services during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.
The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7760 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7760

   To make a supplemental appropriation for the COVID-19 Telehealth 
 Program of the Federal Communications Commission for the fiscal year 
                       ending September 30, 2020.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2020

    Ms. Spanberger (for herself, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mrs. 
  Napolitano, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Cox of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Budget, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To make a supplemental appropriation for the COVID-19 Telehealth 
 Program of the Federal Communications Commission for the fiscal year 
                       ending September 30, 2020.

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

SECTION 1. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR COVID-19 TELEHEALTH PROGRAM.

    (a) Appropriation.--There is appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, for an additional amount for ``Federal 
Communications Commission--Salaries and Expenses'', $200,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, to carry out the COVID-19 Telehealth 
Program established in the Report and Order in the matter of COVID-19 
Telehealth Program that was adopted by the Federal Communications 
Commission on March 31, 2020 (FCC 20-44).
    (b) Emergency Designation.--The amount appropriated by subsection 
(a) is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be available only if 
the President subsequently so designates such amount and transmits such 
designation to the Congress.
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