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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3767 

To require States to pass-through 45 percent of the amounts paid from 

the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local governments that did not receive 

a direct payment from the Fund. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 19, 2020 

Mr. DAINES introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Finance 

A BILL 

To require States to pass-through 45 percent of the amounts 

paid from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local governments that did not receive a direct payment from the 

Fund. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening Local 

5 Coronavirus Response Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PASS-THROUGH OF PORTION OF STATE CORONAVI2 RUS RELIEF FUND TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 

3 (a) PASS-THROUGH REQUIREMENT.—Subsection (b) 

4 of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by sec5 tion 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 

6 Security Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended— 

7 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Subject to 

8 paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to para9 graphs (2) and (3)’’; and 

10 (2) by adding at the end the following 

11 ‘‘(3) PASS-THROUGH REQUIREMENT.—Each 

12 State shall distribute 45 percent of the amount paid 

13 to the State under this section for fiscal year 2020 

14 (after the application of paragraph (2)) upon receipt 

15 on a pass-through basis, and without requiring any 

16 application, to each unit of local government in the 

17 State that is not a large unit of local government 

18 that received a direct payment under this section in 

19 accordance with paragraph (2). The preceding dis20 tribution requirement shall not apply to the District 

21 of Columbia.’’. 

22 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 601 of 

23 such Act is further amended— 

24 (1) in subsection (b)— 


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1 (A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting 

2 ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of local government’’ each 

3 place it appears; and 

4 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

5 (i) in the paragraph heading, by in6 serting ‘‘LARGE’’ before ‘‘UNITS’’; and 

7 (ii) by adding at the end the fol8 lowing: ‘‘For purposes of this section, the 

9 term ‘large unit of local government’ 

10 means a unit of local government, as de11 fined in subsection (g)(2), with a popu12 lation that exceeds 500,000.’’; 

13 (2) in subsection (c)(5)— 

14 (A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting 

15 ‘‘LARGE’’ before ‘‘UNIT’’; and 

16 (B) by inserting ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of 

17 local government’’ each place it appears; 

18 (3) in subsection (e)— 

19 (A) by inserting ‘‘direct’’ before ‘‘pay20 ment’’; and 

21 (B) by inserting ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of 

22 local government’’ each place it appears; and 

23 (4) in subsection (g)(2)— 

24 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 

25 ‘‘LOCAL’’ and inserting ‘‘UNIT OF LOCAL’’; and 


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1 (B) by striking ‘‘with a population that ex2 ceeds 500,000.’’ 

3 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

4 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact5 ment of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added 

6 by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 

7 Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136). 

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