1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Health Force and Resilience Force Act of 2020 . 2. Health Force (a) Purpose It is the purpose of the Health Force established under this section to recruit, train, and employ Americans to respond to the COVID–19 pandemic in their communities, provide capacity for ongoing and future public health care needs, and build skills for new workers to enter the public health and health care workforce. (b) Establishment The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through its State, local, territorial, and tribal partners, shall establish a Health Force (referred to in this section as the Force ) composed of community members dedicated to responding to public health emergencies as declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, including the COVID–19 emergency, and providing increased capacity to address ongoing and future public health needs. (c) Organization and administration The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shall— (1) award grants, contracts, or enter into cooperative agreements for the recruitment, hiring, managing, administration, and organization of the Force to States, localities, territories, Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, urban Indian health organizations, or health service providers to Tribes