    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 134, 116th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 116-148
    116th Congress

    An Act

    To amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority
    for fiscal year 2020 for increased payments for temporary assistance to
    United States citizens returned from foreign countries, 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 ``Emergency Aid for Returning Americans
    Affected by Coronavirus Act''.
    SEC. 2. INCREASE IN AGGREGATE PAYMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020.

    (a) In General.--Section 1113(d) of the Social Security Act (42
    U.S.C. 1313(d)) is amended by striking ``fiscal years 2017 and 2018''
    and all that follows through the period and inserting ``fiscal year
    2020, the total amount of such assistance provided during such fiscal
    year shall not exceed $10,000,000.''.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--
    (1) In general.--The amounts provided by the amendment made
    by this section are designated as an emergency requirement
    pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of
    2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
    (2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section and
    the amendment made by this section are designated as an
    emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con.
    Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the
    budget for fiscal year 2018.
    SEC. 3. <>  LIMIT ON
    DIRECT CONTACT WITH REPATRIATED INDIVIDUALS
    DURING COVID-19 EMERGENCY PERIOD.

    During the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of
    the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)(1)(B)), in providing
    temporary assistance under section 1113 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1313), no
    employee of the Administration for Children and Families of the
    Department of Health and Human Services shall have direct, in-person
    contact with an individual specified in section 1113(a)(1) of such Act
    (42 U.S.C. 1313(a)(1)), except in the case of a uniformed member of the
    Regular Corps or the Ready Reserve Corps of the Commissioned Corps of
    the Public Health Service (as described in section 203 of the Public
    Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204)) in an active duty status who, as
    determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has--

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    (1) received appropriate training on infection prevention
    and control; and
    (2) access to appropriate personal protective equipment.

    Approved July 13, 2020.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 4091:
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    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 166 (2020):
    June 29, considered and passed Senate and House.