Deadline. Coordination. Recommenda- tions. 

Review. 

Recommenda- tions. 

## SEC. 207. IMPROVING ALL-HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE BY PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY VOLUNTEERS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 319I (42 U.S.C. 247d–7b) is amended— 

‘‘(C) facilitate and accelerate, as applicable, advanced research and development of security countermeasures (as defined in section 319F–2), qualified countermeasures (as defined in section 319F–1), or qualified pandemic or epi- demic products (as defined in section 319F–3), that are applicable to the public health emergency or potential public health emergency under paragraph (1); 

‘‘(D) strengthen biosurveillance capabilities and labora- tory capacity to identify, collect, and analyze information regarding such public health emergency or potential public health emergency, including the systems under section 319D; 

‘‘(E) support initial emergency operations and assets related to preparation and deployment of intermittent dis- aster response personnel under section 2812 and the Med- ical Reserve Corps under section 2813; and 

‘‘(F) carry out other activities, as the Secretary deter- mines applicable and appropriate.’’; and 

(D) by inserting after paragraph (3), as so redesignated, the following: 

‘‘(4) REVIEW.—Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019, the Secretary, in coordina- tion with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, shall conduct a review of the Fund under this section and provide recommendations to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Appro- priations of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on policies to improve such Fund for the uses described in paragraph (2). 

‘‘(5) GAO REPORT.—Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019, the Comptroller General of the United States shall— 

‘‘(A) conduct a review of the Fund under this section, including its uses and the resources available in the Fund; and 

‘‘(B) submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on such review, including recommendations related to such review, as applicable.’’; and 

(2) in subsection (c)— 

(A) by inserting ‘‘rapidly respond to public health emer- gencies or potential public health emergencies and’’ after ‘‘used to’’; and 

(B) by striking ‘‘section.’’ and inserting ‘‘Act or funds otherwise provided for emergency response.’’. 

(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘ HEALTH PROFES- SIONS VOLUNTEERS ’’ and inserting ‘‘ VOLUNTEER HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ’’; 

