Sec. 7. COVID–19 safety protocols and practices
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Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and any senior official acting in, or performing the duties of, any such position shall submit a report to the congressional committees referred to in section 4(c) that identifies, for each detention facility under the jurisdiction of the applicable agency head, including contract detention facilities, the protocols and practices for protecting detainees from exposure to the novel coronavirus (SARS–CoV–2), including— the health standards at the facility, including— the standards for transfer to hospital or other specialized care; the procedure for the detained person to request and obtain a COVID–19 test and associated results; and detainee access to information about the facility’s COVID–19 plans and protocols; the medical care provided to detainees, including— the specific efforts to cohort smaller groups of detained people; the specific efforts to provide humane medical isolation to symptomatic people, and separately, people who have tested positive for COVID–19; and the standards for clinical monitoring of symptomatic and COVID–19 positive detained persons; and the sanitation practices at the facility, including the frequency and amount of detainees’ access to soap and masks.
Each detention facility shall create, share, and enforce a process for notifying anyone who has recently entered or visited such facility of any COVID–19 outbreak or exposure at such facility.