; and (B) an emergency plan, updated annually, in case of public health emergency or other disaster. . (b) Funding of infection preventionists (1) Establishment Chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1744 the following new section: 1744a. Hiring and retention of infection preventionists: payments to assist States (a) Payment program The Secretary shall make payments to States under this section for the purpose of assisting State homes in the hiring and retention of infection preventionists. (b) Eligible recipients Payments to a State for a fiscal year under this section shall, subject to submission of an application, be made to any State that during that fiscal year receives per diem payments under this subchapter for that fiscal year. (c) Limitations on amount of payment A payment under this section may not be used to provide more than 50 percent of the salary or wages for an infection preventionist for a fiscal year. (d) Applications A payment under this section for any fiscal year with respect to any State home may only be made based upon an application submitted by the State seeking the payment with respect to that State home. Any such application shall describe the salary or wages of the infection preventionist. (e) Source of funds Payments under this section shall be made from funds available for other payments under this subchapter. (f) Disbursement Payments under this section to a State home shall be made as part of the disbursement of payments under section 1741 of this title with respect to that State home. (g) Use of certain receipts The Secretary shall require as a condition of any payment under this section that, in any case in which the State home receives a refund payment made by an employee in breach of the terms of an agreement for employee assistance that used funds provided under this section, the payment shall be returned to the State home’s incentive program account and credited as a non-Federal funding source. (h) Annual report from payment (1) Any