[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6294 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6294


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 22, 2020

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
                           and Urban Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    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 information regarding 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 the location of Continuums of 
Care with high concentration of unsheltered 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).
    (d) Limitation.--Information shared pursuant to this Act shall not 
be shared beyond the Department of Health and Human Services or used 
for purposes beyond those intended in the Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 21, 2020.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.