To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants or contracts to public or private entities to carry out a national awareness campaign to increase factual awareness and knowledge of COVID-19.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6577 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6577

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants or 
    contracts to public or private entities to carry out a national 
   awareness campaign to increase factual awareness and knowledge of 
                               COVID-19.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2020

  Mr. Cox of California (for himself and Ms. Judy Chu of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants or 
    contracts to public or private entities to carry out a national 
   awareness campaign to increase factual awareness and knowledge of 
                               COVID-19.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and in coordination with other offices and agencies, as appropriate, 
shall award competitive grants or contracts to one or more public or 
private entities to carry out a national awareness campaign to increase 
factual awareness and knowledge of COVID-19.
    (b) Components.--The campaign under subsection (a) shall include--
            (1) multilingual and culturally appropriate information and 
        distribution strategies;
            (2) information based on available scientific evidence;
            (3) an emphasis on countering stigma and shame, such as 
        harmful and false accusations regarding origination of the 
        virus; and
            (4) scientific data countering propaganda related to viral 
        origination.
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