Sec. 3. Resilience force
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It is the purpose of the Resilience Force established under this section to recruit, train, and augment the existing cadre of first responders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist in the immediate COVID–19 pandemic response, to provide a surge capacity to address other national emergencies, and to strengthen America’s public health infrastructure. For the period of fiscal years 2021 through 2023, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall appoint, administer, and expedite the training of a 62,000 Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees, under the Response and Recover Directorate (referred to in this section as a CORE employee ) under the Office of Response and Recovery, above the level of such employees in fiscal year 2020, to address the coronavirus public health emergency and other disasters and public emergencies, subject to appropriations.
A CORE employee may be detailed, through mutual agreement, to any Federal agency or to a State, local, or Tribal Government to fulfill an assignment, consistent with the Stafford Act or emergency work as defined under section 206.225 of title 44, Code of Federal Regulations, including— providing logistical support for the supply chain of medical equipment and other goods involved in COVID–19 response efforts; supporting COVID–19 testing, tracing, vaccination, vaccination education, and related surveillance activities; providing nutritional assistance to vulnerable populations; and carrying out other disaster preparedness and response functions for other emergencies and natural disasters, including work to design, construct, repair, upgrade, and fortify critical public health and health care infrastructure.
The costs associated with detailing employees under subsection
(c)shall be borne by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As soon as practicable, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall make public job announcements to fill the CORE employee positions authorized under subsection (b), which shall prioritize hiring from among the following groups of individuals in no particular rank order: Unemployed veterans of the Armed Forces. Individuals who live in a high unemployment area, which includes census tracts with unemployment 150 percent or higher than the national unemployment rate, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics based on the most recent data on the total unemployed, the U–3 unemployment measure or similar measure, available on the date of enactment of this Act. Unemployed individuals who served in the AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, or as United States Fulbright Scholars, particularly those whose service terms ended as a result of the coronavirus public health emergency. Recent graduates of public health, medical, nursing, social work or related health-services programs. Members of communities who have experienced a disproportionately high number of COVID–19 cases. The Federal Emergency Management Agency shall hire employees under this section, pursuant to section 306(b)(1) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5149(b)(1) ), and make use of existing statutory authorities that permit regional offices and site managers to advertise for and hire such employees. The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may make appropriate adjustments to the standard training course curriculum for employees under this section to include on-site trainings at Federal Emergency Management Agency regional offices, virtual trainings, or trainings conducted by other Federal, State, local or Tribal agencies, or eligible institutions defined in subsection (i), including training described in section 2(e)(5). For the purposes of employing individuals under this section— no individual who is authorized to work in the United States, including individuals with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA)or Temporary Protected Status
(TPS)under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1254a ), shall be disqualified for appointment under this section because of citizenship or immigration status; and no individual shall be disqualified for appointment under this section because of bankruptcy or a poor credit rating, determined by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to be the result of the Coronavirus public health emergency. In this Act eligible institution means a public 2-year institution of higher education, as defined under section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 ). There are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, $6,500,000,000, for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2023, not less than $1,500,000,000 of which shall be made available each such fiscal year for the administrative costs associated with carrying out this section.
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