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This bill aims to ensure that all communities, regardless of immigration status or limited English proficiency, have access to COVID-19 testing, treatment, public health information, and relief benefits. Key provisions include: - Suspending adverse immigration actions that could deter immigrants from seeking health services during the public health emergency, such as not implementing the public charge rule, conducting enforcement actions at sensitive locations without a warrant, or detaining certain vulnerable individuals. - Clarifying that emergency Medicaid coverage extends to COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccination, and that assistance provided under coronavirus response laws is not considered income or resources. - Providing grants to community-based organizations for culturally and linguistically appropriate COVID-19 preparedness and response activities, and requiring translation of materials and establishment of a multilingual hotline. - Expanding disaster supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to cover emergencies due to a pandemic, and allowing alternative options to in-person interviews. - Automatically extending immigration statuses and employment authorizations expiring during the pandemic. - Requiring agencies receiving coronavirus response funding to provide translated program materials in the most frequently encountered languages.

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