H-8322

   Amend  the Senate amendment, H-8317, to House File 2643, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 29, after line 31, by inserting: 
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CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND —— DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH COVID-19 RESPONSE

   Sec. ___.  CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND —— DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH COVID-19 RESPONSE.  Of the funds received by the state from the federal coronavirus relief fund created pursuant to the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, a sufficient amount shall be allocated to the department of public health to be used to hire, train, equip, pay, and provide for the expenses of case investigators and contact tracers during the public health emergency to meet the recommendations of the centers for disease control and prevention of the United States department of health and human services relating to case investigation and contact tracing for COVID-19. In recruiting and hiring case investigators and contact tracers the department shall ensure that those recruited and hired meet the needs of the culturally and linguistically diverse populations in the jurisdiction served.
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CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND —— DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COVID-19 RESPONSE

   Sec. ___.  CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND —— DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COVID-19 RESPONSE.  Of the funds received by the state from the federal coronavirus relief fund created pursuant to the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, a sufficient amount shall be allocated to the department of human rights to hire, train, equip, pay, and provide for the expenses of twenty health care advocates for persons with disabilities and for minority, migrant, non-English speaking, and other at-risk populations, to ensure that such persons receive all the assistance to which they are entitled during the public health emergency, including access to testing services and housing for diagnosed individuals to mitigate the spread of infection. Of the twenty health care advocates hired, one advocate shall be located at each community action agency in the state and three advocates shall be deployed to communities where major outbreaks occur. In hiring advocates, the department shall ensure that those hired meet the needs of the culturally and linguistically diverse populations in the jurisdiction served, and to the greatest extent possible advocates who are hired shall reside within or work with the population within the jurisdiction served. 
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CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND —— OFFICE OF LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN COVID-19 RESPONSE

   Sec. ___.  CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND —— OFFICE OF LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN COVID-19 RESPONSE.  Of the funds received by the state from the federal coronavirus relief fund created pursuant to the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, a sufficient amount shall be allocated to the office of long-term care ombudsman to hire, train, equip, pay, and provide for the expenses of sufficient personnel, through September 30, 2022, or until the officially-declared end of the public health emergency, whichever is later, to serve facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of long-term care ombudsman pursuant to chapter 231 that are at risk for an infectious disease outbreak, and to ensure that such personnel provide on-site visits for each such facility on at least a quarterly basis and in response to any complaint necessitating an on-site visit to ensure appropriate fact-finding and evaluation of the complaint.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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ISENHART of Dubuque