3.0.0 4526 2023-01-11T13:45:16Z 2023-01-11T13:45:16Z Senate S 2020-08-12 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-08-12T17:13:27Z 2020-08-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2020-08-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2020-08-12 True H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2020-08-12 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2020-08-12 True R000608 Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] Jacklyn Rosen D NV 2020-08-12 True C001113 Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] Catherine Cortez Masto D NV 2020-08-12 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2020-08-12 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2020-08-12 True B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2020-08-12 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2020-08-12 True W000805 Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] Mark Warner D VA R. 2020-09-08 False S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2020-09-08 False F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2020-09-08 False V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2020-09-08 False S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2020-09-16 False S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2020-11-10 False Health Aging Appropriations Business expenses Cardiovascular and respiratory health Community life and organization Congressional oversight Department of Health and Human Services Disability assistance Emergency medical services and trauma care Executive agency funding and structure Foreign language and bilingual programs Government information and archives Government lending and loan guarantees Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Infectious and parasitic diseases Small business State and local government operations Wages and earnings Health 00 2020-08-12 Introduced in Senate 2020-10-19T20:44:11Z Coronavirus Language Access Act

This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other federal agencies to take actions to expand access to information about COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) for those with limited English proficiency. It also provides emergency funding to the Administration on Community Living for FY2020 to increase access to such information for those who have limited English proficiency and are older individuals, individuals with disabilities, or individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Among other requirements, the CDC must award grants to, or enter cooperative agreements with, community-based organizations or governmental health departments to offer interpretive services for individuals receiving COVID-19 tests and otherwise provide information about COVID-19 and other public health activities in certain languages other than English. The CDC must also translate, within seven days, certain COVID-19 materials into specified languages other than English and must operate a hotline staffed by trained interpreters to provide information about COVID-19 to the public.

In addition, any federal agency that receives funding pursuant to a COVID-19 response law must translate, within seven days, materials that describe programs and opportunities related to COVID-19 into specified languages other than English and must provide oral language assistance services to those with limited English proficiency.


]]> Coronavirus Language Access Act Display Title Coronavirus Language Access Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Coronavirus Language Access Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure that COVID-19-related Federal programs and assistance provide for the translation of informational materials relating to awareness, screening, testing, and treatment for COVID-19 into priority languages. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4526is/xml/BILLS-116s4526is.xml 2020-08-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.