Emergency Grants of Release And Compassion Effectively Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3963
Sponsor: Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2021-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aging
Appropriations
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Public contracts and procurement
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-17
text: 

Emergency Grants of Release And Compassion Effectively Act of 2021 or the Emergency GRACE Act

 
This bill sets forth provisions to prevent and limit the spread of COVID-19 in federal correctional facilities (e.g., prisons) and state prison systems. 
 
Among the provisions, the bill
 
 
expands access to temporary release on furlough and compassionate release for federal prisoners during a public health emergency; 
 
allows Medicaid payment for medical services furnished to an incarcerated individual during the 30-day period preceding the individual's release; and 
 
requires federal correctional facilities, including contract facilities, to follow the procedures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for limiting the spread of the coronavirus. 
 
 
Additionally, the bill provides FY2021 and FY2022 supplemental appropriations to help state prison systems expand testing of inmates and facilitate the compassionate release of high-risk inmates. The supplemental appropriations are designated as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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.
action_date: 2021-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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.
action_date: 2021-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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.
action_date: 2021-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-17
text: Introduced in House