Sec. 2114. Assessment of containment and mitigation of infectious diseases

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The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study that reviews a geographically diverse sample of States and territories that, in response to the COVID–19 pandemic, implemented preparedness and response plans that included isolation and quarantine recommendations or requirements. Such study shall include— a review of such State and territorial preparedness and response plans in place during the COVID–19 pandemic, an assessment of the extent to which such plans facilitated or presented challenges to State and territorial responses to such public health emergency, including response activities relating to isolation and quarantine to prevent the spread of COVID–19; and a description of the technical assistance provided by the Federal Government to help States and territories facilitate such response activities during responses to relevant public health emergencies declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, including the public health emergency with respect to COVID–19, and a review of the degree to which such State and territorial plans were implemented and subsequently revised in response to the COVID–19 pandemic to address any challenges.

Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report on the study under subsection

(a)to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.