[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 42 (Friday, March 5, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1342]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1205. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. 
Moran, and Mr. Lankford) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 891 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Wyden, 
Mrs. Murray, Mr. Brown, Mr. Peters, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. 
Stabenow, Mr. Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, 
and Mr. Sanders) to the bill H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation 
pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res, 5; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       Strike section 4001 and insert the following:

     SEC. 4001. FUNDING FOR NURSING HOME FACILITIES AND FOR 
                   REOPENING SCHOOLS.

       (a) Nursing Home Facilities.--In addition to amounts 
     otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency for fiscal year 2021, out of any 
     money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
     $150,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, 
     to carry out the purposes of the Disaster Relief Fund for 
     costs associated with vaccinating, screening, testing, 
     providing personal protective equipment for, and meeting 
     other COVID-19-related expenses with respect to the residents 
     and staff of long-term care facilities, nursing facilities, 
     independent living, assisted living, memory care, and 
     continuing care retirement communities, personal care homes, 
     adult care homes, and residential care facilities for the 
     elderly with 15 or more residential units.
       (b) Reopening Schools.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
     available, there is appropriated to the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $50,000,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2021, to carry out the 
     purposes of the Disaster Relief Fund for the emergency 
     declaration issued by the President on March 13, 2020, 
     pursuant to section 501(b) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
     Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5191(b)), and 
     for any subsequent major disaster declaration that supersedes 
     such emergency declaration, to reimburse costs incurred with 
     respect to reopening schools, including public and non-public 
     schools, for in-person learning with COVID-19 prevention, 
     mitigation, and control measures.
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