Global Health Security & Pandemic Response

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2020-05-07 — COVID–19 International Response and Recovery Act of 2020: The COVID–19 International Response and Recovery Act of 2020, introduced but not advanced beyond committee referral, proposed a U.S. international pandemic-response strategy and funding framework, a White House Global Health Security Advisor, and automatic extensions of expiring noncitizen employment authorizations and immigration statuses during the pandemic; these provisions did not take effect through this bill. (novelty: 2)