Sec. 3. Emergency funding for Federal data collection on the racial, ethnic, and other demographic disparities of COVID–19
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To conduct or support data collection on the racial, ethnic, and other demographic implications of COVID–19 in the United States and its territories, including support to assist in the capacity building for State and local public health departments to collect and transmit racial, ethnic, and other demographic data to the relevant Department of Health and Human Services agencies, there is authorized to be appropriated— to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $12,000,000; to State and territorial public health agencies, distributed proportionally based on the total population of their residents who are enrolled in Medicaid or who have no health insurance, $15,000,000; to the Indian Health Service, Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act), and urban Indian organizations (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act), $3,000,000; to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, $5,000,000; to the Food and Drug Administration, $5,000,000; to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $5,000,000; and to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, $5,000,000.