Sec. 204. Supporting humanitarian and development assistance related to COVID–19 response through the United States combatant commands
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Subject to subsection (b), the United States combatant commands are authorized to provide assistance in their respective areas of operation to enable foreign governments to better prevent, prepare for, or respond to COVID–19. This authorization shall go into effect only after the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development determines and certifies to the relevant congressional committees that— provision of assistance by a specific United States combatant command is necessary to enable a foreign government or governments to prevent, prepare for, or respond to COVID–19; and all assistance provided by a United States combatant command pursuant to this authorization has been jointly planned with the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of State.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of State shall brief the relevant congressional committees on all humanitarian and development assistance programming related to COVID–19 by United States combatant commands within their areas of operation. In this section, the term relevant congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.