Title: Improving Emergency Disease Response via Housing Act of 2020
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Improving Emergency Disease Response via Housing Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to share with the Department of Health and Human Services information regarding populations that are particularly vulnerable to or at risk of contracting COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, HUD must identify the location of projects for supportive housing for the elderly and provide any information available regarding encampments of homeless individuals and other areas that have a high concentration of homelessness.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6294 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6294

    To require data sharing regarding protecting the homeless from 
                  coronavirus, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2020

  Mr. Tipton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require data sharing regarding protecting the homeless from 
                  coronavirus, 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 ``Improving Emergency Disease Response 
via Housing Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. DATA SHARING BETWEEN HUD AND HHS.

    (a) In General.--For the purpose of increasing the ability of the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to target outreach to 
populations vulnerable to contracting coronavirus, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall share with the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services any information in the possession of such Secretary 
regarding populations that are particularly vulnerable to or at risk of 
contracting the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which information 
shall include identification of the location of projects for supportive 
housing for the elderly assisted under section 202 of the Housing Act 
of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) and any information available regarding 
encampments of homeless individuals and other areas having high 
concentration of homelessness.
    (b) Removal of Personally Identifiable Information.--In sharing the 
information required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall ensure that appropriate administrative and 
physical safeguards are in place to remove all personally identifiable 
information.
    (c) Consultation.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall consult with the Secretary of Health and Human Services promptly 
after the date of the enactment of this Act to provide for the sharing 
of the information required under subsection (a).
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