[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1782. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. ___. STUDY AND REPORT ON SURGE CAPACITY OF DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE TO ESTABLISH NEGATIVE AIR ROOM 
                   CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS IN MILITARY MEDICAL 
                   TREATMENT FACILITIES.

       (a) Study.--The Director of the Defense Health Agency shall 
     conduct a study on the use, scalability, and military 
     requirements for commercial off the shelf negative air 
     pressure room containment systems in order to improve 
     pandemic preparedness at military medical treatment 
     facilities worldwide, to include an assessment of whether 
     such systems would improve the readiness of the Department of 
     Defense to expand capability and capacity to evaluate and 
     treat patients at such facilities during a pandemic.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense Health 
     Agency shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the 
     findings of the study conducted under subsection (a).
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