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Provided further, That States shall allocate 13 percent of 
the funds received under the fourth proviso as subgrants 
to public institutions of higher education, of which 75 per-
cent shall be apportioned according to the relative share 
in the State of students who received Pell Grants who are 
not exclusively enrolled in distance education courses prior 
to the coronavirus emergency at the institution in the pre-
vious award year and 25 percent shall be apportioned ac-
cording to the relative share in the State of the total en-
rollment of students at the institution who are not exclu-
sively enrolled in distance education courses prior to the 
coronavirus emergency at the institution in the previous 
award year: Provided further, That the Governor may use 
any funds received under the fourth proviso that are not 
specifically reserved under this heading for additional sup-
port to elementary, secondary, and postsecondary edu-
cation, including supports for under-resourced institu-
tions, institutions with high burden due to the 
coronavirus, and institutions who did not possess distance 
education capabilities prior to the coronavirus emergency: 
Provided further, That the Governor shall return to the 
Secretary any funds received that the Governor does not 
award to local educational agencies and public institutions 
of higher education or otherwise commit within two years 
of receiving such funds, and the Secretary shall reallocate 
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such funds to the remaining States in accordance with the 
fourth proviso: Provided further, That Governors shall use 
State grants and subgrants to maintain or restore State 
and local fiscal support for elementary, secondary and 
postsecondary education: Provided further, That funds for 
local educational agencies may be used for any activity au-
thorized by the ESEA, including the Native Hawaiian 
Education Act and the Alaska Native Educational Equity, 
Support, and Assistance Act, the Individuals with Disabil-
ities Education Act (‘‘IDEA’’), subtitle B of title VII of 
the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the Adult 
Education and Family Literacy Act or the Carl D. Perkins 
Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (‘‘the Per-
kins Act’’): Provided further, That a State or local edu-
cational agency receiving funds under this heading may 
use the funds for activities coordinated with State, local, 
tribal, and territorial public health departments to detect, 
prevent, or mitigate the spread of infectious disease or 
otherwise respond to coronavirus; support online learning 
by purchasing educational technology and internet access 
for students, which may include assistive technology or 
adaptive equipment, that aids in regular and substantive 
educational interactions between students and their class-
room instructor; provide ongoing professional development 
to staff in how to effectively provide quality online aca-
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demic instruction; provide assistance for children and fam-
ilies to promote equitable participation in quality online 
learning; plan and implement activities related to supple-
mental afterschool programs and summer learning, includ-
ing providing classroom instruction or quality online learn-
ing during the summer months; plan for and coordinate 
during long-term closures, provide technology for quality 
online learning to all students, and how to support the 
needs of low-income students, racial and ethnic minorities, 
students with disabilities, English learners (including 
through such activities as are authorized under Title III 
of the ESEA, such as ensuring the access of English 
learners to online learning, supporting professional devel-
opment on digital instruction for English learners, engage-
ment with the parents of English learners, expanded sum-
mer and after-school programs, and mental health sup-
ports), students experiencing homelessness, and children 
in foster care, including how to address learning gaps that 
are created or exacerbated due to long-term closures; sup-
port the continuity of student engagement through social 
and emotional learning; and other activities that are nec-
essary to maintain the operation of and continuity of serv-
ices in local educational agencies, including maintaining 
employment of existing personnel, and reimbursement for 
eligible costs incurred during the national emergency: Pro-
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vided further, That a public institution of higher education 
that receives funds under this heading shall use funds for 
education and general expenditures (including defraying 
expenses due to lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses 
already incurred, and payroll) and grants to students for 
expenses directly related to coronavirus and the disruption 
of campus operations (which may include emergency fi-
nancial aid to students for tuition, food, housing, tech-
nology, health care, and child care costs that shall not be 
required to be repaid by such students) or for the acquisi-
tion of technology and services directly related to the need 
for distance education and the training of faculty and staff 
to use such technology and services (which shall not in-
clude payment to contractors for the provision of pre-en-
rollment recruitment activities): Provided further, That an 
institution of higher education may not use funds received 
under this heading to increase its endowment or provide 
funding for capital outlays associated with facilities re-
lated to athletics, sectarian instruction, or religious wor-
ship: Provided further, That funds may be used to support 
hourly workers, such as education support professionals, 
classified school employees, and adjunct and contingent 
faculty: Provided further, That a Governor of a State de-
siring to receive an allocation under this heading shall sub-
mit an application at such time, in such manner, and con-
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taining such information as the Secretary may reasonably 
require: Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue 
a notice inviting applications not later than 15 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
any State receiving funding under this heading shall main-
tain its percent of total spending on elementary, sec-
ondary, and postsecondary education in fiscal year 2019 
for fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2022: Provided further, 
That a State’s application shall include assurances that 
the State will maintain support for elementary and sec-
ondary education in fiscal year 2020, fiscal year 2021, and 
fiscal year 2022 at least at the level of such support that 
is the average of such State’s support for elementary and 
secondary education in the 3 fiscal years preceding the fis-
cal year for which State support for elementary and sec-
ondary education is provided: Provided further, That any 
State receiving funding under this heading shall maintain 
or exceed its per pupil spending on elementary and sec-
ondary education in fiscal year 2019 or the proportion of 
such State’s spending on elementary and secondary edu-
cation in fiscal year 2019 for fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 
2022: Provided further, That a State educational agency 
shall only be eligible to receive funds under this Act if 
the State in which such agency is located, in either of fis-
cal years 2021 and 2022, does not reduce State funding 
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for a high-need local educational agency (defined as a local 
educational agency that has a higher percentage of eco-
nomically disadvantaged students than the median local 
educational agency in the state) such that the per-pupil 
reduction in State funds in each such high-need local edu-
cational agency is more than the overall per-pupil reduc-
tion in State funds, as calculated by the total reduction 
in State funds provided to all local educational agencies 
in the State divided by the total student enrollment across 
all local educational agencies in the State: Provided fur-
ther, That a State’s application shall include assurances 
that the State will maintain State support for higher edu-
cation (not including support for capital projects or for 
research and development or tuition and fees paid by stu-
dents) in fiscal year 2020, fiscal year 2021, and fiscal year 
2022 at least at the level of such support that is the aver-
age of such State’s support for higher education (which 
shall include State and local government funding to insti-
tutions of higher education and state financial aid) in the 
3 fiscal years preceding the fiscal year for which State 
support for higher education is provided, and that any 
such State’s support for higher education funding, as cal-
culated as spending for public higher education per full- 
time equivalent student, shall be at least the same in fiscal 
year 2022 as it was in fiscal year 2019: Provided further, 
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That in such application, the Governor shall provide base-
line data that demonstrates the State’s current status in 
each of the areas described in such assurances in the pre-
ceding provisos: Provided further, That a State’s applica-
tion shall include assurances that the State will not con-
strue any provisions under this heading as displacing any 
otherwise applicable provision of any collective-bargaining 
agreement between an eligible entity and a labor organiza-
tion as defined by section 2(5) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act (29 U.S.C. 152(5)) or analogous State law: Pro-
vided further, That a State’s application shall include as-
surances that the State shall maintain the wages, benefits, 
and other terms and conditions of employment set forth 
in any collective-bargaining agreement between the eligible 
entity and a labor organization, as defined in the pre-
ceding proviso: Provided further, That a State’s applica-
tion shall include assurances that all students with disabil-
ities (as defined by section 602 of IDEA) are afforded 
their full rights under IDEA, including all rights and serv-
ices outlined in individualized education programs 
(‘‘IEPs’’) (as defined in section 614(d) of IDEA), individ-
ualized family services plans (as defined by section 636 
of IDEA), and in section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act 
of 1973: Provided further, That a State receiving funds 
under this heading shall submit a report to the Secretary, 
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at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may 
require, that describes the use of funds provided under 
this heading: Provided further, That no recipient of funds 
under this heading shall use funds to provide financial as-
sistance to students to attend private elementary or sec-
ondary schools, unless such funds are used to provide spe-
cial education and related services to children with disabil-
ities whose IEPs require such placement, and where the 
school district maintains responsibility for providing such 
children a free appropriate public education, as authorized 
by IDEA: Provided further, That a local educational agen-
cy, State, institution of higher education, or other entity 
that receives funds under ‘‘State Fiscal Stabilization 
Fund’’, shall to the greatest extent practicable, continue 
to pay its employees and contractors during the period of 
any disruptions or closures related to coronavirus: Pro-
vided further, That the terms ‘‘elementary education’’ and 
‘‘secondary education’’ have the meaning given such terms 
under State law: Provided further, That the term ‘‘institu-
tion of higher education’’ has the meaning given such term 
in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965: Pro-
vided further, That the term ‘‘fiscal year’’ shall have the 
meaning given such term under State law: Provided fur-
ther, That the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 States, 
the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puer-
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to Rico: Provided further, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EMERGENCY 
FACILITIES AID 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Elementary and Sec-
ondary School Emergency Facilities Aid’’, $5,000,000,000 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro-
vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—ELEMENTARY AND 
SECONDARY SCHOOL EMERGENCY FACILITIES AID 
SEC. 804. (a)(1) GRANTS.—From the amount made 
available under this heading in this Act, the Secretary 
shall make elementary and secondary school emergency fa-
cilities grants to each State educational agency with an 
approved application. The Secretary shall issue a notice 
inviting applications not later than 30 days of enactment 
of this Act and approve or deny applications not later than 
30 days after receipt. 
(2) For purposes of this section, a State des-
ignated agency shall mean the State educational 
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agency, unless the Governor of a State designates a 
State agency other than the educational agency as 
responsible for school facilities improvement under 
this section and informs the Secretary of such des-
ignation and the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 
States, the District of Columbia, and the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico . 
(b)(1) ALLOCATIONS TO STATES.—The amount of 
each grant under subsection (a) shall be allocated by the 
Secretary to each State in the same proportion as each 
State received under part A of title I of the ESEA of 1965 
in the most recent fiscal year. 
(2) STATE RESERVATION.—A State may reserve 
not more than 1⁄2 of 1 percent for administration 
costs. 
(3) RESERVATION FOR OUTLYING AREAS AND 
BUREAU
OF
INDIAN
EDUCATION-FUNDED 
SCHOOLS.—The Secretary shall reserve from the 
amount made available under this heading in this 
Act— 
(A) one-half of 1 percent, to provide assist-
ance to the outlying areas; and 
(B) one-half of 1 percent, for payments to 
the Secretary of the Interior to provide assist-
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ance to Bureau of Indian Education-funded 
schools. 
(c) SUBGRANTS
TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
CIES.—Within 60 days of the State’s approved application 
under paragraph (a), each State shall allocate the remain-
ing grant funds awarded to the State under this section 
as subgrants to local educational agencies in the State, 
with the grant funds allocated to the local educational 
agencies with the highest percentages of students eligible 
for a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42. U.S.C. 1751 et. 
seq.) with the public school facilities with the highest 
needs related to the coronavirus as determined by the 
State. 
(1) PUBLIC
NOTICE.—The State educational 
agency shall make subgrant information available to 
the public on the State educational agency website, 
including the local educational agencies that received 
subgrant awards and the amounts provided to each 
local educational agency. 
(2) SUBGRANT APPLICATIONS.—To be consid-
ered for a subgrant under this section, a qualified 
local educational agency shall submit an application 
to the State educational agency that shall include at 
minimum— 
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(A) a description of the coronavirus-related 
school facility needs within the local educational 
agency; and 
(B) an estimate of how much addressing 
the coronavirus-related facility needs will cost. 
(d) USES OF FUNDS.—A local educational agency 
that receives funds under this section may use the funds 
for any of the following: 
(1) School facility repairs and improvements to 
enable operation of schools to reduce risk of virus 
transmission and exposure to environmental health 
hazards, and to support student health needs. 
(2) Inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, re-
placement, and upgrade projects to improve the in-
door air quality in school facilities, including me-
chanical and non-mechanical heating, ventilation, 
and air conditioning systems, filtering, purification 
and other air cleaning, fans, control systems, and 
window and door repair and replacement. 
(3) School facility repairs and improvements to 
support improved personal hygiene, such as repair, 
replacement, and installation of sinks for hand 
washing and touchless water dispensers for drinking, 
and health isolation areas. 
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(4) Inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, 
and replacement of school facility potable water sys-
tems to provide safe drinking water after prolonged 
shutoffs. 
(5) Improvements to finishes, such as painting 
and other surface repair, needed to enable effective 
sanitizing. 
(6) Improvements to school grounds needed to 
enable outdoor instruction and other physically 
distanced school activities. 
(7) Training of school facility staff in associa-
tion with the above uses of funds. 
(8) Planning, assessment, management, design, 
renovation, repair and construction activities in asso-
ciation with the above uses of funds. 
(9) Inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, re-
placement, and upgrade projects to electrical sys-
tems to allow or improve information technology to 
provide virtual education. 
(e) PRIORITY.—A local educational agency that re-
ceives funds under this section shall prioritize funds for 
its school facilities that have the most significant facility 
improvement needs with respect to responding to covid- 
19, including those identified by the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention. 
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(f) REPORTING.—(1) The local educational agency 
shall include the following information in a report to the 
State educational agency within 60 days of receipt of 
grant funds— 
(A) which schools benefitted from the funds in 
this section; 
(B) how much funding each selected school re-
ceived; and 
(C) a description of how the grant funds were 
used. 
(2) The State educational agency shall include the 
following information in a report to the Secretary within 
6 months of receipt of grant funds— 
(A) which local educational agencies received 
funding; 
(B) how much funding was awarded to each re-
ceiving local educational agency; and 
(C) a summary on the uses of funds for 
projects receiving funds under this section, including 
the amount of local or state funds, if any, applied 
to projects. 
(3) The Secretary shall prepare and submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, the Committee on Education 
and Labor of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
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mittee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the 
Senate within 10 months of the date of enactment of this 
Act, that includes a summary of the types of projects that 
were funded with the grants. 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Higher Education’’, 
$11,942,000,000 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus, of which $11,000,000 shall be transferred to 
‘‘National Technical Institute for the Deaf’’ to help defray 
expenses (which may include lost revenue, reimbursement 
for expenses already incurred, technology costs associated 
with a transition to distance education, sign language and 
captioning costs associated with a transition to distance 
education, faculty and staff trainings, and payroll) directly 
caused by coronavirus and to enable emergency financial 
aid to students for expenses directly related to coronavirus 
and the disruption of university operations (which may in-
clude food, housing, transportation, technology, health 
care, and child care), of which $20,000,000 shall be trans-
ferred to ‘‘Howard University’’ to help defray expenses 
(which may include lost revenue, reimbursement for ex-
penses already incurred, technology costs associated with 
a transition to distance education, technology costs associ-
ated with a transition to distance education, faculty and 
staff trainings, and payroll) directly related to coronavirus 
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and to enable grants to students for expenses directly re-
lated to coronavirus and the disruption of university oper-
ations (which may include food, housing, transportation, 
technology, health care, and child care), of which 
$11,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Gallaudet Univer-
sity’’ to help defray expenses (which may include lost rev-
enue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, tech-
nology costs associated with a transition to distance edu-
cation, sign language and captioning costs associated with 
a transition to distance education, faculty and staff 
trainings, and payroll) directly related to coronavirus and 
to enable grants to students for expenses directly related 
to coronavirus and the disruption of university operations 
(which may include food, housing, transportation, tech-
nology, health care, and child care), and of which the re-
maining amounts shall be used to carry out parts A and 
B of title III, parts A and B of title V, subpart 4 of part 
A of title VII, and part B of title VII of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (‘‘HEA’’) as follows: 
(1) $3,500,000,000 for parts A and B of title 
III, parts A and B of title V, and subpart 4 of part 
A of title VII of the HEA to address needs directly 
related to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount 
shall be allocated by the Secretary proportionally to 
such programs covered under this paragraph and 
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based on the relative share of funding appropriated 
to such programs in the Further Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) and 
distributed to institutions of higher education as fol-
lows: 
(A) Except as otherwise provided in sub-
paragraph (B), for eligible institutions under 
part B of title III and subpart 4 of part A of 
title VII of the Higher Education Act, the Sec-
retary shall allot to each eligible institution an 
amount using the following formula: 
(i) 70 percent according to a ratio 
equivalent to the number of Pell Grant re-
cipients in attendance at such institution 
at the end of the school year preceding the 
beginning of that fiscal year and the total 
number of Pell Grant recipients at all such 
institutions; 
(ii) 20 percent according to a ratio 
equivalent to the total number of students 
enrolled at such institution at the end of 
the school year preceding the beginning of 
that fiscal year and the number of stu-
dents enrolled at all such institutions; and 
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(iii) 10 percent according to a ratio 
equivalent to the total endowment size at 
all eligible institutions at the end of the 
school year preceding the beginning of that 
fiscal year and the total endowment size at 
such institutions; 
(B) For eligible institutions under section 
326 of the Higher Education Act, the Secretary 
shall allot to each eligible institution an amount 
in proportion to the award received from fund-
ing for such institutions in the Further Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 
116–94); 
(C) For eligible institutions under section 
316 of the Higher Education Act, the Secretary 
shall allot funding according to the formula in 
section 316(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act; 
(D) Notwithstanding section 318(f) of the 
Higher Education Act, for eligible institutions 
under section 318 of the Higher Education Act, 
the Secretary shall allot funding according to 
the formula in section 318(e) of the Higher 
Education Act; 
(E) Except as provided in subparagraphs 
(C) and (D), for eligible institutions under part 
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A of title III of the Higher Education Act and 
parts A and B of title V, the Secretary shall 
issue an application for eligible institutions to 
demonstrate unmet need, and the Secretary 
shall allow eligible institutions to apply for 
funds under one of the programs for which they 
are eligible. 
(2) $8,400,000,000 for part B of title VII of 
the HEA for institutions of higher education (as de-
fined in section 101 or 102(c) of the HEA) to ad-
dress needs directly related to coronavirus as follows: 
(A) $7,000,000,000 shall be provided to 
private, nonprofit institutions of higher edu-
cation, by apportioning— 
(i) 75 percent according to the rel-
ative share of enrollment of Federal Pell 
Grant recipients who are not exclusively 
enrolled in distance education courses prior 
to the coronavirus emergency; and 
(ii) 25 percent according to the rel-
ative share of the total enrollment of stu-
dents who were not Federal Pell Grant re-
cipients who are not exclusively enrolled in 
distance education courses prior to the 
coronavirus emergency. 
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(B) $1,400,000,000 shall be for institu-
tions of higher education with unmet need re-
lated to the coronavirus, including institutions 
of higher education that offer their courses and 
programs exclusively through distance edu-
cation: 
Provided, That funds shall be used to make payments to 
such institutions to provide emergency grants to students 
who attended such institutions at any point during the 
coronavirus emergency and for any component of the stu-
dent’s cost of attendance (as defined under section 472 
of the HEA), including tuition, food, housing, course ma-
terials, technology, health care, and child care): Provided 
further, That institutions of higher education may use 
such funds to defray expenses (including lost revenue, re-
imbursement for expenses already incurred, technology 
costs associated with a transition to distance education, 
faculty and staff trainings, and payroll) incurred by insti-
tutions of higher education: Provided further, That such 
payments shall not be used to increase endowments, to 
pay contractors for the provision of pre-enrollment recruit-
ment activities, or provide funding for capital outlays asso-
ciated with facilities related to athletics, sectarian instruc-
tion, or religious worship: Provided further, That any pri-
vate, nonprofit institution of higher education that is not 
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otherwise eligible for a grant of at least $1,000,000 under 
paragraph (2)(A)(ii) of this heading and has a total enroll-
ment of at least 500 students shall be eligible to receive, 
from amounts reserved under paragraph (2)(A)(i), an 
amount equal to whichever is the lesser of the total loss 
of revenue and increased costs associated with the 
coronavirus or $1,000,000: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided under paragraph 2(B), the Secretary shall 
make an application available for institutions of higher 
education to demonstrate unmet need, which shall include 
for this purpose a dramatic decline in revenue as a result 
of campus closure, exceptional costs or challenges imple-
menting distance education platforms due to lack of a 
technological infrastructure, serving a large percentage of 
students who lack access to adequate technology to move 
to distance education, serving a region or community that 
has been especially impacted by increased unemployment 
and displaced workers, serving communities or regions 
where the number of coronavirus cases has imposed excep-
tional costs on the institution, and other criteria that the 
Secretary shall identify after consultation with institutions 
of higher education or their representatives: Provided fur-
ther, That no institution may receive an award under the 
preceding proviso unless it has submitted an application 
that describes the impact of the coronavirus on the institu-
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tion and the ways that the institution will use the funds 
to ameliorate such impact: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall reallocate any funds received from an institu-
tion to remaining institutions in accordance with para-
graph 2(A): Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
brief the Committees on Appropriations fifteen days in ad-
vance of making any application available for funds under 
paragraph (2)(B): Provided further, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Institute of Education 
Sciences’’, $32,000,000 to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus for carrying out the National Assess-
ment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (title III 
of Public Law 107–279): Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’, $7,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in-
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cluding for salaries and expenses necessary for oversight, 
investigations and audits of programs, grants, and 
projects funded in this Act to respond to coronavirus: Pro-
vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
SEC. 805. The remaining unobligated balances of 
funds made available to ‘‘Department of Education—Of-
fice of Inspector General’’ in title VIII of division B of 
the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) are hereby re-
scinded, and an amount of additional new budget author-
ity equivalent to the amount rescinded is hereby appro-
priated, for an additional amount for fiscal year 2021, to 
remain available until expended, for the same purposes 
and under the same authorities as they were originally ap-
propriated, and shall be in addition to any other funds 
available for such purposes: Provided, That the amounts 
appropriated by this section may also be used for inves-
tigations and are available until expended: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts rescinded pursuant to this section that 
were previously designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by 
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the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided fur-
ther, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 806. Section 18004(c) of the Coronavirus Aid, 
Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116–136) is 
amended by striking ‘‘to cover any costs associated with 
significant changes to the delivery of instruction due to 
the coronavirus’’ and inserting ‘‘to defray expenses (in-
cluding lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already 
incurred, technology costs associated with a transition to 
distance education, faculty and staff trainings, payroll) in-
curred by institutions of higher education.’’: Provided, 
That amounts repurposed pursuant to the amendment 
made by this section that were previously designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
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SEC. 807. With respect to the allocation and award 
of funds under this title, the Secretary of Education is 
prohibited from— 
(a) establishing a priority or preference not specified 
in this title; and 
(b) imposing limits on the use of such funds not spec-
ified in this title. 
SEC. 808. (a) LOCAL ACTIVITIES AND IN-PERSON 
CARE.—Notwithstanding each provision in part B of title 
IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.) that requires activities 
under such part to be carried out during nonschool hours 
or periods when school is not in session, for school year 
2020–2021, an eligible entity that is awarded a subgrant 
under section 4204 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7174) for com-
munity learning centers may use such subgrant funds— 
(1) to carry out activities described in section 
4205 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7175), regardless of 
whether such activities are conducted in-person or 
virtually, or during school hours or when school is 
in session; and 
(2) to provide in-person care during— 
(A) the regular school day for students eli-
gible to receive services under part B of title IV 
of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.); and 
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(B) a period in which full-time in-person 
instruction is not available for all such students 
served by such eligible entity. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—An eligible entity may carry 
out the activities described in subsection (a)(1) and the 
in-person care described in subsection (a)(2) if— 
(1) such activities and in-person care supple-
ment but do not supplant regular school day require-
ments; 
(2) such eligible entity complies with section 
4204(b)(2)(D) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7174(b)(2)(D)) 
with respect to the activities carried out pursuant to 
this Act; and 
(3) such eligible entity specifies in an applica-
tion for a subgrant under section 4204(b) of such 
Act (20 U.S.C. 7174(b)) with respect to such school 
year (or in an addendum to such application) how 
the subgrant funds will be used to carry out such ac-
tivities or to provide such in-person care, or both. 
(c) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—The amounts pro-
vided by this section are designated by the Congress as 
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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SEC. 809. The Secretary of Education may allow 
funds appropriated for grants under part B of title I and 
title VI of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 701 
et seq.) for fiscal year 2020 to be available for obligation 
and expenditure during fiscal years 2020 and 2021: Pro-
vided, That the amounts provided by this section are des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
RELATED AGENCIES 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY 
SERVICE 
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Corporation for 
National and Community Service’’ (referred to under this 
heading as ‘‘CNCS’’), $336,000,000, to prevent, prepare 
for, and respond to coronavirus, including to carry out the 
Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (‘‘1973 Act’’) and 
the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (‘‘1990 
Act’’): Provided, That $228,000,000 of the funds made 
available in this paragraph may be used to make new and 
additional awards to new and existing AmeriCorps grant-
ees and may be used to provide adjustments to awards 
under subtitle C of title I of the 1990 Act for which the 
Chief Executive Officer of CNCS determines that a waiver 
of the Federal share limitation is warranted under section 
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2521.70 of title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations: 
Provided further, That of the amount provided in this 
paragraph, $26,000,000 shall be for programs under title 
I, part A of the 1973 Act: Provided further, That of the 
amount provided in this paragraph, $35,000,000 shall be 
for programs under title II of the 1973 Act, and not less 
than $23,000,000 of these funds shall be available for the 
program under title II, part C of the 1973 Act: Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided under this para-
graph: (1) up to 1 percent of the funds in this paragraph 
may be used to defray the costs of conducting grant appli-
cation reviews, including the use of outside peer reviewers 
and electronic management of the grants cycle; (2) 
$9,000,000 shall be available to provide assistance to 
State commissions on national and community service, 
under section 126(a) of the 1990 Act; (3) $5,000,000 
shall be available to carry out subtitle E of the 1990 Act; 
and (4) $12,000,000 shall be available for expenses au-
thorized under section 501(a)(4)(F) of the 1990 Act, 
which shall be awarded by CNCS on a competitive basis: 
Provided further, That for the purposes of carrying out 
the 1990 Act, satisfying the requirements in section 
122(c)(1)(D) of such Act may include a determination of 
need by the local community: Provided further, That up 
to $21,000,000 may be transferred for necessary expenses 
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of administration as provided under section 501(a)(5) of 
the 1990 Act and under section 504(a) of the 1973 Act: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
PAYMENT TO THE NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Service 
Trust’’, $14,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That CNCS may transfer additional funds from 
the amount provided under the heading ‘‘Corporation for 
National and Community Service’’ in this Act for grants 
made under subtitle C of title I of the 1990 Act to this 
appropriation upon determination that such transfer is 
necessary to support the activities of national service par-
ticipants and after notice is transmitted to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That the amount appropriated 
for or transferred to the National Service Trust may be 
invested under section 145(b) of the 1990 Act without re-
gard to the requirement to apportion funds under 31 
U.S.C. 1513(b): Provided further, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
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quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 
For an additional amount for fiscal year 2021 for 
‘‘Corporation for Public Broadcasting,’’ $175,000,000 to 
prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, includ-
ing for fiscal stabilization grants to public telecommuni-
cations entities, as defined by 47 U.S.C. 397(12), with no 
deduction for administrative or other costs of the Corpora-
tion, to maintain programming and services and preserve 
small and rural stations threatened by declines in non- 
Federal revenues: Provided, That such amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES 
OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS 
AND ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Institute of Museum 
and Library Services’’, $135,000,000 to prevent, prepare 
for, and respond to coronavirus, including grants to 
States, territories, tribes, museums, and libraries, to ex-
pand digital network access, purchase internet accessible 
devices, provide technical support services, and for oper-
ational expenses: Provided, That any matching funds re-
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quirements for States, tribes, libraries, and museums are 
waived for grants provided with funds made available 
under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Limitation on Admin-
istration’’, $4,500,000 to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus, including the expeditious dispensa-
tion of railroad unemployment insurance benefits, and to 
support full-time equivalents and overtime hours as need-
ed to administer the Railroad Unemployment Insurance 
Act, and of which $8,300 shall be for administrative costs 
related to implementing rebate payments: Provided, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of the Inspector 
General’’, $500,000, to remain available until expended, 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in-
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cluding salaries and expenses necessary for oversight, in-
vestigations and audits of the Railroad Retirement Board 
and railroad unemployment insurance benefits funded in 
this Act and Public Law 116–136: Provided, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Limitation on Admin-
istrative Expenses’’, $40,500,000, to prevent, prepare for, 
and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internation-
ally, for necessary expenses to carry out additional recov-
ery rebates to individuals, as described in section 101 of 
division F of this Act: Provided, That of the amount made 
available under this heading in this Act, $2,500,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025, shall be trans-
ferred to ‘‘Social Security Administration—Office of In-
spector General’’ for necessary expenses in carrying out 
the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978: Pro-
vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con-
gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE 
SEC. 810. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds made available under each heading in this title 
shall only be used for the purposes specifically described 
under that heading. 
SEC. 811. Funds appropriated by this title may be 
used by the Secretary of the Department of Health and 
Human Services to appoint, without regard to the provi-
sions of sections 3309 through 3319 of title 5 of the 
United States Code, candidates needed for positions to 
perform critical work relating to coronavirus for which— 
(1) public notice has been given; and 
(2) the Secretary has determined that such a 
public health threat exists. 
SEC. 812. Funds made available by this title may be 
used to enter into contracts with individuals for the provi-
sion of personal services (as described in section 104 of 
part 37 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations (48 CFR 
37.104)) to support the prevention of, preparation for, or 
response to coronavirus, domestically and internationally, 
subject to prior notification to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 
Provided, That such individuals may not be deemed em-
ployees of the United States for the purpose of any law 
administered by the Office of Personnel Management: Pro-
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vided further, That the authority made available pursuant 
to this section shall expire on September 30, 2024. 
SEC. 813. Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall provide a detailed spend plan of an-
ticipated uses of funds made available to the Department 
of Health and Human Services in this Act, including esti-
mated personnel and administrative costs, to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate: Provided, That such plans shall be up-
dated and submitted to such Committees every 60 days 
until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That the 
spend plans shall be accompanied by a listing of each con-
tract obligation incurred that exceeds $5,000,000 which 
has not previously been reported, including the amount of 
each such obligation. 
SEC. 814. Of the funds appropriated by this title 
under the heading ‘‘Public Health and Social Services 
Emergency Fund’’, $25,000,000 shall be transferred to, 
and merged with, funds made available under the heading 
‘‘Office of the Secretary, Office of Inspector General’’, and 
shall remain available until expended, for oversight of ac-
tivities supported with funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services in this Act: Provided, 
That the Inspector General of the Department of Health 
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and Human Services shall consult with the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate prior to obligating such funds: Provided further, 
That the transfer authority provided by this section is in 
addition to any other transfer authority provided by law. 
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TITLE IX 
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER OF THE SENATE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Sergeant at Arms and 
Doorkeeper of the Senate’’, $6,345,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to coronavirus, which shall be allocated in accordance with 
a spend plan submitted to the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate: Provided, That such amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Allowances and Ex-
penses’’, $37,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
for necessary expenses for Business Continuity and Dis-
aster Recovery, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus, to be allocated in accordance with a spend 
plan submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives by the Chief Administrative Of-
ficer and approved by such Committee: Provided, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
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an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
JOINT ITEMS 
OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of the Attend-
ing Physician’’, $600,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
CAPITOL POLICE 
SALARIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For 
an 
additional 
amount 
for 
‘‘Salaries’’, 
$12,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus: Provided, That amounts provided under this 
heading in this Act may be transferred between Capitol 
Police ‘‘Salaries’’ and ‘‘General Expenses’’ for the pur-
poses provided herein without the approval requirement of 
section 1001 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations 
Act, 2014 (2 U.S.C. 1907a); Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $1,200,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Capital Construction 
and Operations’’, $150,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, to supplement the funding made available to the 
Architect for the purposes described in title IX of division 
B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, 
That this additional amount also may be used for the pur-
chase and distribution of supplies to respond to 
coronavirus including, but not limited to, cleaning and 
sanitation supplies, masks and/or face coverings to Con-
gressional offices, committees, and visitors, including pro-
visions for travel and other necessary work carried out by 
staff in their Congressional Districts and State Offices, 
wherever located: Provided further, That such amount is 
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designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $12,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus, including to offset losses resulting 
from the coronavirus pandemic of amounts collected pur-
suant to the Act of June 28, 1902 (chapter 1301; 32 Stat. 
480; 2 U.S.C. 150), for revolving fund activities pursuant 
to sections 182 and 182a through 182e of title 2, United 
States Code, sections 708(d) and 1316 of title 17, United 
States Code, and sections 111(d)(2), 119(b)(3), 803(e), 
and 1005 of such title, and for reimbursement of the Little 
Scholars Child Development Center for salaries for em-
ployees, as authorized by this title: Provided, That the Li-
brary of Congress may transfer amounts appropriated 
under this heading in this Act to other applicable appro-
priations of the Library of Congress to prevent, prepare 
for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided further, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 
GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE BUSINESS 
OPERATIONS REVOLVING FUND 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Government Pub-
lishing Office Business Operations Revolving Fund’’, 
$7,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus, which shall be for offsetting losses resulting 
from the coronavirus pandemic of amounts collected pur-
suant to section 309 of title 44, United States Code: Pro-
vided, That funds appropriated under this heading in this 
Act may be made available to restore amounts, either di-
rectly or through reimbursement, for obligations incurred 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, do-
mestically or internationally, prior to the date of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $88,500,000, to remain available until expended, 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, which 
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shall be for audits and investigations and for reimburse-
ment of the Tiny Findings Child Development Center for 
salaries for employees, as authorized by this title: Pro-
vided, That not later than 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Government Accountability Office 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate a spend plan 
specifying funding estimates and a timeline for such au-
dits and investigations: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE 
SOURCE OF FUNDS USED FOR PAYMENT OF SALARIES 
AND EXPENSES OF SENATE EMPLOYEE CHILD CARE 
CENTER 
SEC. 901. The Secretary of the Senate shall reim-
burse the Senate Employee Child Care Center for per-
sonnel costs incurred until September 30, 2021, for em-
ployees of such Center who have been ordered to cease 
working due to measures taken in the Capitol complex to 
combat coronavirus, from amounts in the appropriations 
account ‘‘Miscellaneous Items’’ within the contingent fund 
of the Senate. 
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SEC. 902. Funds appropriated to the Architect of the 
Capitol in this Act also may be used to restore amounts, 
either directly or through reimbursement, for obligations 
incurred by the Architect to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) prior to 
the date of enactment of this Act. Funds used to restore 
amounts to other Architect of the Capitol accounts shall 
assume the original period of availability of such accounts. 
AUTHORITY OF ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL TO MAKE 
EXPENDITURES IN RESPONSE TO EMERGENCIES 
SEC. 903. (a) COVERAGE OF COMMUTING EX-
PENSES.—Section 1305(a)(2) of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 2010 (2 U.S.C. 1827(a)(2)) is amend-
ed by inserting after ‘‘refreshments’’, the following: 
‘‘transportation and other related expenses incurred by 
employees in commuting between their residence and their 
place of employment’’. 
(b) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE SUPPLIES AND 
SERVICES 
THROUGHOUT 
FACILITIES 
AND 
GROUNDS UNDER THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAP-
ITOL’S CARE.—Section 1305 of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 2010 (2 U.S.C. 1827) is further 
amended by inserting after subsection (a)(2), the fol-
lowing: ‘‘(3) May accept contributions of, and incur obliga-
tions and make expenditures for, supplies, products, serv-
ices, and operational costs necessary to respond to the 
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emergency, which may be provided throughout all facilities 
and grounds under the care of the Architect of the Capitol 
wherever located, on a reimbursable or non-reimbursable 
basis subject to the availability of funds.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsections (a) and (b) shall apply with respect to fiscal 
year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year. 
SEC. 904. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 
6304(c) of title 5, United States Code, any annual leave 
accumulated by an employee of the Government Pub-
lishing Office in excess of the limits prescribed in section 
6304(a) of title 5, United States Code, remains to the 
credit of the employee until December 31, 2021. 
TITLE X 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, 
AND RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES, VETERANS BENEFITS 
ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘General Operating 
Expenses, 
Veterans 
Benefits 
Administration’’, 
$338,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus, including the elimination of backlogs that 
may have occurred: Provided, That amounts provided 
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under this heading in this Act made available for the elimi-
nation of backlogs may not be used to increase the number 
of permanent positions: Provided further, That of the 
amounts provided under this heading, up to $198,000,000 
shall be to improve the Veteran Benefits Administration’s 
education systems, including implementation of changes to 
chapters 30 through 36 of part III of title 38, United 
States Code in the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Edu-
cational Assistance Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–48), in 
a bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
treat certain programs of education converted to distance 
learning by reason of emergencies and health-related situ-
ations in the same manner as programs of education pur-
sued at educational institutions, and for other purposes 
(Public Law 116–128), and in the Student Veteran 
Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 (Public Law 116–140): 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
MEDICAL COMMUNITY CARE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Medical Community 
Care’’, $100,000,000, for a one-time emergency payment 
to existing State Extended Care Facilities for Veterans, 
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to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro-
vided, That such payments shall be in proportion to each 
State’s share of the total resident capacity in such facili-
ties as of January 4, 2020 where such capacity includes 
only veterans on whose behalf the Department pays a per 
diem amount pursuant to 38 United States Code 1741 
or 1745: Provided further, That amounts made available 
to ‘‘Veterans Health Administration—Medical Services’’ 
in division B of Public Law 116–136, may be transferred 
to and merged with the Medical Community Care account 
to be used for the purposes provided under this heading 
in this Act, and shall be in additional to any other 
amounts available for such purposes: Provided further, 
That amounts transferred pursuant to the preceding pro-
viso that were previously designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Cemetery 
Administration’’, $26,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, 
and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount 
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
BOARD OF VETERANS APPEALS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Board of Veterans Ap-
peals’’, $4,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Information Tech-
nology Systems’’, $45,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to coronavirus: Provided, That amounts provided under 
this heading shall be to improve the Veteran Benefits Ad-
ministration’s education systems, including implementa-
tion of changes to chapters 30 through 36 of part III of 
title 38, United States Code in the Harry W. Colmery Vet-
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erans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 (Public Law 
115–48), in a bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to treat certain programs of education converted 
to distance learning by reason of emergencies and health- 
related situations in the same manner as programs of edu-
cation pursued at educational institutions, and for other 
purposes (Public Law 116–128), and in the Student Vet-
eran Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 (Public Law 116– 
140): Provided further, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $2,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $2,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 1001. Title X of division B of the Coronavirus 
Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116– 
136) is amended under the heading ‘‘Department of Vet-
erans Affairs—Departmental Administration—Grants for 
Construction of State Extended Care Facilities’’ by strik-
ing ‘‘including to modify or alter existing hospital, nursing 
home, and domiciliary facilities in State homes: Provided,’’ 
and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ‘‘which shall 
be for modifying or altering existing hospital, nursing 
home, and domiciliary facilities in State homes: Provided, 
That the Secretary shall conduct a new competition or 
competitions to award grants to States using funds pro-
vided under this heading in this Act: Provided further, 
That such grants may be made to reimburse States for 
the costs of modifications or alterations that have been 
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initiated or completed before an application for a grant 
under this section is approved by the Secretary: Provided 
further, That the use of funds provided under this heading 
in this Act shall not be subject to state matching fund 
requirement, application requirements, cost thresholds, 
the priority list, deadlines, award dates under sections 
8134 and 8135 of title 38, United States Code, and part 
59 of chapter I of title 38, Code of Federal Regulations, 
and shall not be subject to requirements of section 501(d) 
of title 38, United States Code: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may establish and adjust rolling deadlines for 
applications for such grants and may issue multiple 
rounds of application periods for the award of such grants 
under this section: Provided further,’’: Provided, That 
amounts repurposed pursuant to this section that were 
previously designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 1002. Of the unobligated balances available to 
the Department of Veterans Affairs from title X of divi-
sion B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-
rity Act (Public Law 116–136) for ‘‘Veterans Health Ad-
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ministration, Medical Services’’, up to $100,000,000 may 
be transferred to ‘‘Departmental Administration, Informa-
tion Technology Systems’’ to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for 
improvements to supply chain systems including the De-
fense Medical Logistics Standard Support system: Pro-
vided, That not more than $50,000,000 may be trans-
ferred to development subaccount for the Supply Chain 
Management project: Provided further, That the trans-
ferred funds shall be in addition to any other funds made 
available for this purpose: Provided further, That the 
amounts transferred in this section that were previously 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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TITLE XI 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN 
OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 
DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Diplomatic Pro-
grams’’, $500,000,000, for necessary expenses to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for 
evacuation expenses, emergency preparedness, maintain-
ing consular operations, and other operations and mainte-
nance requirements related to the consequences of 
coronavirus, domestically or internationally, of which 
$425,000,000 shall be for Consular and Border Security 
Programs, to remain available until expended, for offset-
ting losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic of fees 
collected and deposited into such account pursuant to sec-
tion 7081 of Public Law 115–31: Provided, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’, $4,400,000, for oversight of activities conducted 
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by the Department of State and made available to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to coronavirus by this title and 
by prior acts: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operating Expenses’’, 
$50,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus and for other operations and maintenance re-
quirements related to the consequences of coronavirus: 
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’, $3,500,000, for oversight of activities conducted 
by the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment and made available to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus by this title and by prior acts: Pro-
vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
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as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Global Health Pro-
grams’’, $3,690,925,000, for necessary expenses to pre-
vent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, 
That such funds shall be administered by the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading in this title, not less than 
$150,000,000 shall be transferred to, and merged with, 
funds made available for the Emergency Reserve Fund es-
tablished pursuant to section 7058(c)(1) of the Depart-
ment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2017 (division J of Public Law 115– 
31): Provided further, That funds made available pursuant 
to the preceding proviso shall be made available under the 
terms and conditions of such section, as amended: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated by this paragraph 
in this title shall be made available for a contribution to 
a multilateral vaccine development partnership to support 
epidemic preparedness: Provided further, That of the 
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funds appropriated by this paragraph in this title, not less 
than $3,500,000,000 shall be made available for a United 
States Contribution to The GAVI Alliance: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated by this paragraph in this 
title shall be allocated and allotted within 60 days of the 
date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Global Health Pro-
grams’’, $4,535,925,000, for necessary expenses to pre-
vent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, 
That such funds shall be administered by the United 
States Global AIDS Coordinator: Provided further, That 
not less than $3,500,000,000 shall be made available as 
a United States contribution to the Global Fund to Fight 
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund): Provided 
further, That funds made available to the Global Fund 
pursuant to the previous proviso shall be made available 
notwithstanding section 202(d)(4)(A)(i) of the United 
States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and 
Malaria Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7622(d)(4)(A)(i)): Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated under this heading 
for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 which are designated as 
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being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 and made available as a 
United States contribution to the Global Fund shall not 
be considered a contribution for the purpose of applying 
section 202(d)(4)(A)(i): Provided further, That funds ap-
propriated by this paragraph in this title shall be allocated 
and allotted within 60 days of the date of enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Development Assist-
ance’’, $250,000,000, for necessary expenses to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including to ad-
dress related economic, and stabilization requirements, of 
which not less than $150,000,000 shall be made available 
to maintain access to basic education and not less than 
$45,000,000 shall be to maintain access to not-for-profit 
institutions of higher education for costs related to the 
consequences of coronavirus: Provided, That such institu-
tions of higher education shall meet standards equivalent 
to those required for United States institutional accredita-
tion by a regional accreditation agency recognized by the 
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United States Department of Education: Provided further, 
That funds made available under this heading in this title 
shall be allocated and allotted within 60 days of the date 
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Inter-American Foun-
dation’’, $15,000,000, for necessary expenses to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including to ad-
dress related economic and stabilization requirements: 
Provided, That funds made available under this heading 
in this title shall be allocated and allotted within 60 days 
of the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘United States African 
Development Foundation’’, $15,000,000, for necessary ex-
penses to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
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coronavirus, including to address related economic and 
stabilization requirements: Provided, That funds made 
available under this heading in this title shall be allocated 
and allotted within 60 days of the enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘International Organi-
zations and Programs’’, $935,250,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2022, for necessary expenses to pre-
vent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus and to sup-
port the United Nations Global Humanitarian Response 
Plan COVID–19, of which not less than $750,000,000 
shall be for the World Food Programme, and not less than 
$185,250,000 shall be for the United Nations Children’s 
Fund: Provided, That funds made available under this 
heading in this title shall be allocated and allotted within 
60 days of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
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tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 1101. The authorities and limitations of section 
402 of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Sup-
plemental Appropriations Act (division A of Public Law 
116–123) shall apply to funds appropriated by this title 
as follows: 
(1) Subsections (a), (d), (e), and (f) shall apply 
to funds under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’; 
and 
(2) Subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) shall apply 
to funds under the heading ‘‘Global Health Pro-
grams’’, and ‘‘Development Assistance’’. 
SEC. 1102. Funds appropriated by this title under 
the headings ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, ‘‘Operating Ex-
penses’’, ‘‘Global Health Programs’’, and ‘‘Development 
Assistance’’ may be used to reimburse such accounts ad-
ministered by the Department of State and the United 
States Agency for International Development, for obliga-
tions incurred to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus prior to the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1103. The reporting requirements of section 
406(b) of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response 
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Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (division A of 
Public Law 116–123) shall apply to funds appropriated 
by this title. 
SEC. 1104. Section 404 of the Coronavirus Prepared-
ness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (divi-
sion A of Public Law 116–123) shall apply to funds appro-
priated by this title under the same headings as specified 
by such section. 
SEC. 1105. Notwithstanding the limitations in sec-
tions 609(i) and 609(j) of the Millennium Challenge Act 
of 2003 (2211 U.S.C. 7708(j), 7715), the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation may, subject to the availability of 
funds, extend any compact in effect as of January 29, 
2020, for up to one additional year, to account for delays 
related to coronavirus: Provided, That the Corporation 
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations and For-
eign Relations of the Senate and the Committees on Ap-
propriations and Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives prior to providing any such extension. 
SEC. 1106. The Secretary of State and the heads of 
other Federal agencies may rely upon the authority of sec-
tion 5924 of title 5, United States Code, without regard 
to the foreign area limitations referenced therein, to make 
payments for education allowances to employees who are 
in the United States on ordered or authorized departure, 
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or for whom travel to a post in a foreign area has been 
delayed, to prevent, prepare for, or respond to coronavirus: 
Provided, That the authority under this section shall ex-
pire on December 31, 2024. 
SEC. 1107. The Secretary of State and the heads of 
other Federal agencies whose employees are authorized to 
receive payments of monetary amounts and other allow-
ances under section 5523 of title 5, United States Code, 
may rely upon the authority of that section, without re-
gard to the time limitations referenced therein, to continue 
such payments in connection with authorized or ordered 
departures from foreign areas, to prevent, prepare for, and 
respond to coronavirus: Provided, That the authority 
under this section shall be available to continue such pay-
ments for the period beginning on July 21, 2020, through 
September 30, 2022, when such authority shall expire. 
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TITLE XII 
TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $20,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in-
cluding necessary expenses for operating costs and capital 
outlays: Provided, That such amounts are in addition to 
any other amounts made available for this purpose: Pro-
vided further, That obligations of amounts under this 
heading in this Act shall not be subject to the limitation 
on obligations under the heading ‘‘Office of the Sec-
retary—Working Capital Fund’’ in division H of the Fur-
ther Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 
116–94): Provided further, That such amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE 
In addition to funds provided to the ‘‘Payments to 
Air Carriers’’ program in Public Law 116–94 to carry out 
the essential air service program under section 41731 
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through 41742 of title 49, United States Code, 
$75,000,000, to be derived from the general fund of the 
Treasury, and to be made available to the Essential Air 
Service and Rural Improvement Fund, to prevent, prepare 
for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
For 
an 
additional 
amount 
for 
‘‘Operations’’, 
$50,000,000, to be derived from the general fund, for nec-
essary expenses to provide Federal Aviation Administra-
tion (FAA) employees with masks or protective face cov-
erings, gloves, and sanitizer and wipes with sufficient alco-
hol content and to ensure FAA facilities are cleaned, dis-
infected, and sanitized in accordance with Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention guidance: Provided further, 
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being 
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants-In-Aid for Air-
ports’’, $13,500,000,000, to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus, to remain available until September 
30, 2026: Provided, That amounts made available under 
this heading in this Act shall be derived from the general 
fund of the Treasury: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided under this heading in this Act shall only be available 
to sponsors of airports in categories defined in section 
47102 of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, 
That the requirements of chapter 471 of such title, except 
for project eligibility, shall apply to funds provided for any 
contract awarded (after the date of enactment of this Act) 
for airport development and funded under this heading: 
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
in this Act may not be used for any purpose not directly 
related to the airport: Provided further, That of the 
amounts appropriated under this heading in this Act— 
(1) Not less than $500,000,000 shall be to pay 
the local share of eligible costs for which a grant is 
made under this heading under the Department of 
Transportation Appropriations Act, 2021: Provided, 
That any remaining funds after the apportionment 
under this paragraph (1) shall be distributed as de-
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scribed in paragraph (2) under this heading in this 
Act: 
(2) Not less than $12,500,000,000 shall be 
available for any purpose for which airport revenues 
may lawfully be used: Provided, That such funds 
shall be allocated among eligible primary airports 
(as defined in section 47102(16) of title 49 United 
States Code) based on each airport’s calendar year 
2019 enplanements as a percentage of total 2019 
enplanements for all eligible primary service air-
ports: Provided further, That sponsors provide relief 
equaling at least 25 percent of the amount allocated 
to an airport under this paragraph to on-airport car 
rental, on-airport parking, and in-terminal airport 
concessions (as defined in part 23 of title 49, Code 
of Federal Regulations) in the form of waiving rent, 
minimum annual guarantees, lease obligations, fees, 
or penalties, or, at the request of the owner of an 
in-terminal concession, to provide for a buyout of 
such concession: Provided further, That the sponsor 
shall give the highest priority to an owner who quali-
fies as an small businesses with maximum gross re-
ceipts less than $56 million: Provided further, That 
the Federal share payable of the costs for which a 
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grant is made under this paragraph shall be 100 
percent; and 
(3) Up to $200,000,000 shall be available for 
general aviation airports and commercial service air-
ports that are not primary airports for any purpose 
for which airport revenues may lawfully be used, 
and, which the Secretary shall apportion directly to 
each eligible airport, as defined in paragraphs (7), 
(8), and (16) of section 47102 of title 49, United 
States Code, based on the categories published in 
the most current National Plan of Integrated Air-
port Systems, reflecting the percentage of the aggre-
gate published eligible development costs for each 
such category, and then dividing the allocated funds 
evenly among the eligible airports in each category, 
rounding up to the nearest thousand dollars: Pro-
vided, That the Federal share payable of the costs 
for which a grant is made under this paragraph 
shall be 100 percent: Provided further, That any re-
maining funds after the apportionment under this 
paragraph (3) shall be distributed as described in 
paragraph (2) under this heading in this Act: 
Provided further, That the matter preceding the first pro-
viso under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) is amended by striking 
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‘‘to remain available until expended’’ and inserting ‘‘to re-
main available until September 30, 2025’’: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts made available under this heading in 
title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116-136) shall not be subject to the limitation on obliga-
tions in any act making appropriations: Provided further, 
That any funds under the previous proviso designated as 
airport grants that are unobligated, recovered by or re-
turned to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 
within 5 years from the date of enactment of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116-36) shall be pooled and redistributed 
as described in paragraph (2) under this heading in this 
Act: Provided further, That the FAA may redistribute 
funds under the previous proviso on more than one occa-
sion: Provided further, That any airport that had been al-
located more than four times annual operating expenses 
under this heading in title XII of division B of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116-136) shall not be eligible for funds 
allocated or redistributed under this Act: Provided further, 
That the Administrator of the FAA may retain up to 0.1 
percent of the funds provided under this heading in this 
Act to fund the award and oversight by the Administrator 
of grants made under this heading in this Act: Provided 
further, That obligations of funds under this heading in 
this Act shall not be subject to any limitations on obliga-
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tions provided in any Act making appropriations: Provided 
further, That all airport sponsors receiving funds under 
this heading in this Act shall continue to employ, through 
September 30, 2021, at least 90 percent of the number 
of individuals employed (after making adjustments for re-
tirements or voluntary employee separations) by each air-
port as of March 27, 2020: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may waive the workforce retention requirement in 
the previous proviso, if the Secretary determines the air-
port is experiencing economic hardship as a direct result 
of the requirement, or the requirement reduces aviation 
safety or security: Provided further, That the workforce 
retention requirement shall not apply to nonhub airports 
or nonprimary airports receiving funds under this heading 
in this Act: Provided further, That amounts repurposed 
by the provisions under this heading in this Act that were 
previously designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS 
Of prior year unobligated contract authority and liq-
uidating cash provided for Motor Carrier Safety in the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public 
Law 105–178), SAFETEA–LU (Public Law 109–59), or 
other appropriations or authorization acts, in addition to 
amounts already appropriated in fiscal year 2020 for 
‘‘Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs’’, 
$238,500 in additional obligation limitation is provided 
and repurposed for obligations incurred to support activi-
ties to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: 
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 
NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL 
RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Northeast Corridor 
Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’, 
$1,392,085,000, to remain available until expended, to 
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prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, includ-
ing to enable the Secretary of Transportation to make or 
amend existing grants to the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation for activities associated with the Northeast 
Corridor, as authorized by section 11101(a) of the Fixing 
America’s Surface Transportation Act (division A of Pub-
lic Law 114–94): Provided, That not less than 
$219,610,000 of the amounts made available under this 
heading in this Act and the ‘‘National Network Grants 
to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’ heading 
in this Act shall be made available for use by the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation in lieu of capital pay-
ments from States and commuter rail passenger transpor-
tation providers subject to the cost allocation policy devel-
oped pursuant to section 24905(c) of title 49, United 
States Code: Provided further, That, notwithstanding sec-
tions 24319(g) and 24905(c)(1)(A)(i) of title 49, United 
States Code, such use of funds does not constitute cross- 
subsidization of commuter rail passenger transportation: 
Provided further, That not more than $91,800,000 of the 
amounts made available under this heading in this Act 
shall be made available for use by the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation to repay or prepay debt incurred 
by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation under fi-
nancing arrangements entered into prior to the enactment 
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of this Act and to pay required reserves, costs, and fees 
related to such debt, including for loans from the Depart-
ment of Transportation and loans that would otherwise 
have been paid from National Railroad Passenger Cor-
poration revenues: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may retain up to $4,890,000 of the amounts made avail-
able under both this heading in this Act and the ‘‘National 
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Cor-
poration’’ heading in this Act to fund the costs of project 
management and oversight of activities authorized by sec-
tion 11101(c) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transpor-
tation Act (division A of Public Law 114–94): Provided 
further, That $1,000,000 of the amounts made available 
under both this heading in this Act and the ‘‘National 
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Cor-
poration’’ heading in this Act shall be transferred to ‘‘Na-
tional Railroad Passenger Corporation—Office of Inspec-
tor General—Salaries and Expenses’’ for conducting au-
dits and investigations of projects and activities carried 
out with amounts made available in this Act and in title 
XII of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco-
nomic Security Act (Public Law 116–136) under the head-
ings ‘‘Northeast Corridor Grants to the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation’’ and ‘‘National Network Grants to 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’: Provided 
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further, That amounts made available under this heading 
in this Act may be transferred to and merged with ‘‘Na-
tional Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation’’ to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus: Provided further, That such amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL 
RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Network 
Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’, 
$1,007,915,000, to remain available until expended, to 
prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, includ-
ing to enable the Secretary of Transportation to make or 
amend existing grants to the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation for activities associated with the National 
Network as authorized by section 11101(b) of the Fixing 
America’s Surface Transportation Act (division A of Pub-
lic Law 114–94): Provided, That not less than 
$349,700,000 of the amounts made available under this 
heading in this Act shall be made available for use by the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation to be appor-
tioned toward State payments required by the cost meth-
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odology policy adopted pursuant to section 209 of the Pas-
senger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 
(Public Law 110–432): Provided further, That a State- 
supported route’s share of such funding under the pre-
ceding proviso shall consist of (1) 7 percent of the costs 
allocated to the route in fiscal year 2019 under the cost 
methodology policy adopted pursuant to section 209 of the 
Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 
(Public Law 110–432), and (2) any remaining amounts 
under the preceding proviso shall be apportioned to a 
route in proportion to its passenger revenue and other rev-
enue allocated to a State-supported route in fiscal year 
2019 divided by the total passenger revenue and other rev-
enue allocated to all State-supported routes in fiscal year 
2019: Provided further, That State-supported routes which 
terminated service on or before February 1, 2020, shall 
not be included in the cost and revenue calculations made 
pursuant to the preceding proviso: Provided further, That 
amounts made available under this heading in this Act 
may be transferred to and merged with ‘‘Northeast Cor-
ridor Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion’’ to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
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to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Transit Infrastructure 
Grants’’, $32,000,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this heading in this Act— 
(1) $18,500,000,000 shall be for grants to re-
cipients eligible under chapter 53 of title 49, United 
States Code, and administered as if such funds were 
provided under section 5307 of title 49, United 
States Code (apportioned in accordance with section 
5336 of such title (other than subsections (h)(1) and 
(h)(4))), and section 5337 of title 49, United States 
Code (apportioned in accordance with such section), 
except that funds apportioned under section 5337 
shall be added to funds apportioned under 5307 for 
administration under 5307: Provided, That the Sec-
retary shall allocate the amounts provided in the 
preceding proviso under sections 5307 and 5337 of 
title 49, United States Code, in the same ratio as 
funds were provided under Public Law 116–94 and 
shall allocate such amounts not later than 14 days 
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after enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
the amounts allocated to any urbanized area from 
amounts made available under this heading in this 
Act when combined with the amounts allocated to 
each such urbanized area from funds appropriated 
under this heading in title XIII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) may not exceed 
more than 100 percent of any recipient’s 2018 oper-
ating costs based on data contained in the National 
Transit Database: Provided further, That for any ur-
banized area for which the calculation in the pre-
vious proviso exceeds 100 percent of the urbanized 
area’s 2018 operating costs, the Secretary shall dis-
tribute funds in excess of such percent to urbanized 
areas for which the calculation in the previous pro-
viso does not exceed 100 percent in the same propor-
tion as amounts allocated under the first proviso of 
this paragraph; 
(2) $2,500,000,000 shall be for grants under 
section 5309 of title 49, United States Code: Pro-
vided, That of the amounts provided under this 
paragraph— 
(A) $1,950,000,000 shall be for grants to 
recipients that received an allocation under sec-
tion 5309 of title 49, United States Code, for 
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fiscal year 2019 or fiscal year 2020 as of the 
date of enactment of this Act: Provided, That 
the Secretary shall calculate each recipient’s 
non-Capital Investment Grant financial commit-
ment for fiscal years 2019 and 2020 as a per-
centage of the non-Capital Investment Grant fi-
nancial commitments of all projects for such 
fiscal years and shall proportionally allocate 
such funds within 14 days of enactment of this 
Act: Provided further, That any recipient with a 
project open for revenue service for which they 
received a construction grant agreement are not 
eligible for funds provided under this para-
graph; and 
(B) $400,000,000 shall be for grants to re-
cipients that receive an allocation of fiscal year 
2019 or fiscal year 2020 funds after the date 
of enactment of this Act under section 5309 of 
title 49, United States Code: Provided, That 
such grants shall be allocated to such recipients 
in proportion to the allocation of fiscal year 
2019 or fiscal 2020 funds provided to all 
projects allocated funding after the date of en-
actment of this Act; and 
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(C) no more than $150,000,000 for any 
recipient of a grant under section 5309(h) of 
title 49, United States Code, that may need ad-
ditional assistance in completing a project that 
has received a grant agreement and shall issue 
a Notice of Funding Opportunity for amounts 
made available for projects eligible under sec-
tion 5309(h) of title 49, United States Code, 
not later than 120 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act: 
Provided further, That if amounts remain available 
after distributing funds under this paragraph, such 
amounts shall be added to the amounts made avail-
able under paragraph (5) under this heading: Pro-
vided further, That amounts made available under 
this paragraph shall not be included in any calcula-
tion of the maximum amount of Federal financial 
assistance 
for 
the 
project 
under 
section 
5309(k)(2)(C)(ii) or 5309(h)(7) of title 49, United 
States Code nor should they be subject to provisions 
in sections 5309(a)(7)(A) or 5309(l)(1)(B)(ii) of 
such title; 
(3) $250,000,000 shall be for grants to recipi-
ents or subrecipients eligible under section 5310 of 
title 49, United States Code, and the Secretary of 
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Transportation shall apportion such funds in accord-
ance with such section: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall allocate such funds in the same ratio as funds 
were provided in Public Law 116–94 and shall allo-
cate such funds not later than 14 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act; 
(4) $750,000,000 shall be for grants to recipi-
ents or subrecipients eligible under section 5311 of 
title 49, United States Code (other than subsection 
(b)(3) and (c)(1)(A)), and the Secretary of Trans-
portation shall apportion such funds in accordance 
with such section: Provided, That the Secretary shall 
allocate these amounts in the same ratio as funds 
were provided in Public Law 116–94 and shall allo-
cate funds within 14 days of enactment of this Act; 
and 
(5) $10,000,000,000 shall be for grants to eligi-
ble recipients or subrecipients of funds under chap-
ter 53 of title 49, United States Code, that, as a re-
sult of coronavirus, require additional assistance to 
maintain operations: Provided, That such funds shall 
be administered as if they were provided under sec-
tion 5324 of title 49, United States Code: Provided 
further, That any recipient or subrecipient of funds 
under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, or 
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an intercity bus service provider that has, since Oc-
tober 1, 2018, partnered with a recipient or sub-
recipient in order to meet the requirements of sec-
tion 5311(f) of such title shall be eligible to directly 
apply for funds under this paragraph: Provided fur-
ther, That entities that have partnered with a recipi-
ent or subrecipient in order to meet the require-
ments of section 5311(f) of such title shall be eligi-
ble to receive not more than 7.5 percent of the total 
funds provided under this paragraph and shall use 
assistance provided under this paragraph only for 
workforce retention or the recall or rehire of any laid 
off, furloughed, or terminated employee associated 
with the provision of intercity bus service including, 
but not limited to, service eligible for funding under 
section 5311(f) of title 49, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That when evaluating applications of 
intercity bus service assistance, the Secretary shall 
give priority to preserving national and regional 
intercity bus networks and the rural services that 
make meaningful connections to those networks: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue a 
Notice of Funding Opportunity not later than 120 
days after the date of enactment of this Act that re-
quires applications to be submitted not later than 
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180 days after the date of enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall make 
awards not later than 60 days after the application 
deadline: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
require grantees to provide estimates of financial 
need, data on reduced ridership, and a spending 
plan for funds: Provided further, That when evalu-
ating applications for assistance to transit agencies, 
the Secretary shall give priority to agencies in ur-
banized areas that received less than 100 percent of 
their 2018 operating expenses from the funds appro-
priated in paragraph (1) combined with the funds 
appropriated under this heading in title XII of divi-
sion B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), 
and transit agencies with the largest revenue loss as 
a percentage of the agency’s 2018 operating ex-
penses: Provided further, That States may apply on 
behalf of a recipient, a subrecipient, or a group of 
recipients or subrecipients: Provided further, That if 
applications for assistance do not exceed available 
funds, the Secretary shall reserve the remaining 
amounts for grantees to prevent, prepare for, and 
respond to coronavirus and shall accept applications 
on a rolling basis: Provided further, That if amounts 
made available under this paragraph remain unobli-
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gated on December 31, 2021, such amounts shall be 
available for any purpose eligible under section 5324 
of title 49, United States Code: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall not waive the 
requirements of section 5333 of title 49, United States 
Code, for funds appropriated under this heading in this 
Act or for funds previously made available under section 
5307 of title 49, United States Code, or sections 5310, 
5311, 5337, or 5340 of such title as a result of the 
coronavirus: Provided further, That the provision of funds 
under this heading in this Act shall not affect the ability 
of any other agency of the Government, including the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency, a State agency, or 
a local governmental entity, organization, or person, to 
provide any other funds otherwise authorized by law: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding subsection (a)(1) or 
(b) of section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, sub-
section (a)(1) of section 5324 of such title, or any provi-
sion of chapter 53 of title 49, funds provided under this 
heading in this Act are available for the operating ex-
penses of transit agencies related to the response to a 
coronavirus public health emergency, including, beginning 
on January 20, 2020, reimbursement for operating costs 
to maintain service and lost revenue due to the 
coronavirus public health emergency, including the pur-
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chase of personal protective equipment, and paying the ad-
ministrative leave of operations or contractor personnel 
due to reductions in service: Provided further, That to the 
maximum extent possible, funds made available under this 
heading in this Act and in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) shall be directed to 
payroll and public transit, unless the recipient certifies to 
the Secretary that the recipient has not furloughed any 
employees: Provided further, That such operating expenses 
are not required to be included in a transportation im-
provement program, long-range transportation plan, state-
wide transportation plan, or a statewide transportation 
improvement program: Provided further, That grants 
made under this heading in this Act and in title XII of 
division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) to 
recipients or subrecipients may be used to make payments 
to contractors providing transit operations service or 
maintenance of rolling stock, right of way and/or stations 
at pre-COVID-19 service billing levels in such amounts as 
existed on February 3, 2020, even if such service was re-
duced due to the COVID-19 public health emergency: Pro-
vided further, That the preceding proviso may only apply 
if a contractor continuously retains its full and part-time 
workforce at their previous full or part-time status, and/ 
or, where applicable, beginning on the date that employees 
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of the contractor are able to return to work at their pre-
vious full or part-time status that it laid off, furloughed 
or terminated as a result of the COVID-19 public health 
emergency, or its effects, under the terms of any applica-
ble collective bargaining agreement: Provided further, That 
private providers of public transportation may be consid-
ered eligible sub-recipients of funding provided under this 
heading: Provided further, That unless otherwise specified, 
applicable requirements under chapter 53 of title 49, 
United States Code, shall apply to funding made available 
under this heading in this Act, except that the Federal 
share of the costs for which any grant is made under this 
heading in this Act shall be, at the option of the recipient, 
up to 100 percent: Provided further, That the amount 
made available under this heading in this Act shall be de-
rived from the general fund and shall not be subject to 
any limitation on obligations for transit programs set forth 
in any Act: Provided further, That not more than one-half 
of one percent of the funds for transit infrastructure 
grants, but not to exceed $125,000,000, provided under 
this heading in this Act shall be available for administra-
tive expenses and ongoing program management oversight 
as authorized under sections 5334 and 5338(f)(2) of title 
49, United States Code, and shall be in addition to any 
other appropriations for such purpose: Provided further, 
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That such amount is designated by the Congress as being 
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT 
CORPORATION 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
(HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, 
maintenance, and capital infrastructure activities of the 
Seaway International Bridge, $1,500,000, to be derived 
from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund pursuant to 
section 210 of the Water Resources Development Act of 
1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238), to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro-
vided, That the funding made available under this heading 
in this Act shall be used for conducting audits and inves-
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tigations of projects and activities carried out by the De-
partment of Transportation to prevent, prepare for, and 
respond to coronavirus: Provided further, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental 
Assistance’’, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, and to be used under the same authority and con-
ditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), except that any 
amounts provided for administrative expenses and other 
expenses of public housing agencies for their section 8 pro-
grams, including Mainstream vouchers, under this heading 
in the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) and under this 
heading in this Act shall also be available for Housing As-
sistance Payments under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)): Provided, 
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That amounts made available under this heading in this 
Act and under the same heading in title XII of division 
B of the CARES Act may be used to cover or reimburse 
allowable costs incurred to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus regardless of the date on which such 
costs were incurred: Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading in this Act, 
$500,000,000 shall be available for administrative ex-
penses and other expenses of public housing agencies for 
their section 8 programs, including Mainstream vouchers: 
Provided further, That of the amounts made available 
under this heading in this Act, $2,500,000,000 shall be 
available for adjustments in the calendar year 2020 or 
2021 section 8 renewal funding allocations, including 
Mainstream vouchers, for public housing agencies that ex-
perience a significant increase in voucher per-unit costs 
due to extraordinary circumstances or that, despite taking 
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the 
Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate rental 
assistance for families as a result of insufficient funding: 
Provided further, That of the amounts made available 
under this heading in this Act, $1,000,000,000 shall be 
used for incremental rental voucher assistance under sec-
tion 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for 
use by individuals and families who are—homeless, as de-
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fined under section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a)); at risk of home-
lessness, as defined under section 401(1) of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1)); 
or fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall allocate amounts made available in the 
preceding proviso to public housing agencies not later than 
60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, according 
to a formula that considers the ability of the public hous-
ing agency to use vouchers promptly and the need of geo-
graphical areas based on factors to be determined by the 
Secretary, such as risk of transmission of coronavirus, 
high numbers or rates of sheltered and unsheltered home-
lessness, and economic and housing market conditions: 
Provided further, That if a public housing authority elects 
not to administer or does not promptly issue all of its au-
thorized vouchers within a reasonable period of time, the 
Secretary shall reallocate any unissued vouchers and asso-
ciated funds to other public housing agencies according 
to the criteria in the preceding proviso: Provided further, 
That a public housing agency shall not reissue any vouch-
ers under this heading in this Act for incremental rental 
voucher assistance when assistance for the family initially 
assisted is terminated: Provided further, That upon termi-
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nation of incremental rental voucher assistance under this 
heading in this Act for one or more families assisted by 
a public housing agency, the Secretary shall reallocate 
amounts that are no longer needed by such public housing 
agency for assistance under this heading in this Act to 
another public housing agency for the renewal of vouchers 
previously authorized under this heading in this Act: Pro-
vided further, That amounts made available in this para-
graph are in addition to any other amounts made available 
for such purposes: Provided further, That up to 0.5 per-
cent of the amounts made available under this heading 
in this Act may be transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development, Program Of-
fices—Public and Indian Housing’’ to supplement existing 
resources for the necessary costs of administering and 
overseeing the obligation and expenditure of these 
amounts, to remain available until September 30, 2024: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Housing Oper-
ating Fund’’, as authorized by section 9(e) of the United 
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States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), 
$2,000,000,000, to be used under the same authority and 
conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That 
amounts made available under this heading in this Act and 
under the same heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act may be used to cover or reimburse allowable 
costs incurred to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
coronavirus regardless of the date on which such costs 
were incurred: Provided further, That up to 0.5 percent 
of the amounts made available under this heading in this 
Act may be transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, Program Offices—Pub-
lic and Indian Housing’’ to supplement existing resources 
for the necessary costs of administering and overseeing the 
obligation and expenditure of these amounts, to remain 
available until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Native American Pro-
grams’’, $400,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2024, and to be used under the same authority 
and conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal 
year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B 
of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 
(Public Law 116–136): Provided, That the amounts made 
available under this heading in this Act are as follows: 
(1) Up to $150,000,000 shall be available for 
the Native American Housing Block Grants pro-
gram, as authorized under title I of the Native 
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determina-
tion Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.); and 
(2) Not less than $250,000,000 shall be avail-
able for grants to Indian tribes under the Indian 
Community Development Block Grant program 
under title I of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(a)(1)), not-
withstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, for 
emergencies that constitute imminent threats to 
health and safety: 
Provided further, That amounts made available under 
paragraph (1) under this heading in title XII of division 
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B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security 
Act (Public Law 116–136) which are allocated to Indian 
tribes or tribally designated housing entities, and which 
are not accepted, are voluntarily returned, or otherwise re-
captured for any reason, may be used by the Secretary 
to make awards under paragraph (2) under this heading 
in title XII of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, 
and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136), in ad-
dition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes: 
Provided further, That up to one-half of 1 percent of the 
amounts made available under this heading in this Act 
may be transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, Program Offices—Pub-
lic and Indian Housing’’ for necessary costs of admin-
istering and overseeing the obligation and expenditure of 
such amounts and of amounts made available under this 
heading in title XII of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, 
Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136), 
to remain available until September 30, 2029, in addition 
to any other amounts made available for such purposes: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing Opportuni-
ties for Persons with AIDS’’, $65,000,000, to be used 
under the same authority and conditions as the additional 
appropriations for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in 
title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116–136): Provided, That amounts provided under this 
heading in this Act that are allocated pursuant to section 
854(c)(5) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12901 et seq.) shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided further, That not less than 
$15,000,000 of the amount provided under this heading 
in this Act shall be allocated pursuant to the formula in 
section 854 of such Act using the same data elements as 
utilized pursuant to that same formula in fiscal year 2020: 
Provided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts 
made available under this heading in this Act may be 
transferred to ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment—Program Offices—Community Planning and 
Development’’ for necessary costs of administering and 
overseeing the obligation and expenditure of amounts 
under this heading in this Act, to remain available until 
September 30, 2030: Provided further, That such amount 
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is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Community Develop-
ment Fund’’, $5,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2023, and to be used under the same au-
thority and conditions as the additional appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division 
B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, 
That such amount made available under this heading in 
this Act shall be distributed pursuant to section 106 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5306) to grantees that received allocations 
pursuant to such formula in fiscal year 2020, and that 
such allocations shall be made within 30 days of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in administering 
funds under this heading, an urban county shall consider 
needs throughout the entire urban county configuration 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro-
vided further, That up to $100,000,000 of amounts made 
available under this heading in this Act may be used to 
make new awards or increase prior awards to existing 
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technical assistance providers: Provided further, That of 
the amounts made available under this heading in this 
Act, up to $25,000,000 may be transferred to ‘‘Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development, Program Of-
fices—Community Planning and Development’’ for nec-
essary costs of administering and overseeing the obligation 
and expenditure of amounts under this heading in this 
Act, to remain available until September 30, 2028: Pro-
vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con-
gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Homeless Assistance 
Grants’’, $5,000,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025, for the Emergency Solutions Grants pro-
gram as authorized under subtitle B of title IV of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11371 et seq.), as amended, and to be used under the 
same authority and conditions as the additional appropria-
tions for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII 
of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): 
Provided, That $3,000,000,000 of the amount made avail-
able under this heading in this Act shall be distributed 
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pursuant to 24 CFR 576.3 to grantees that received allo-
cations pursuant to that same formula in fiscal year 2020, 
and that such allocations shall be made within 30 days 
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That, in addi-
tion to amounts allocated in the preceding proviso, remain-
ing amounts shall be allocated directly to a State or unit 
of general local government by the formula specified in 
the third proviso under this heading in title XII of division 
B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided fur-
ther, That not later than 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act and every 60 days thereafter, the Sec-
retary shall allocate a minimum of an additional 
$500,000,000, pursuant to the formula referred to in the 
preceding proviso, based on the best available data: Pro-
vided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts made 
available under this heading in this Act may be trans-
ferred to ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment—Program Offices—Community Planning and De-
velopment’’ for necessary costs of administering and over-
seeing the obligation and expenditure of amounts under 
this heading in this Act, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2030: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able under this heading in this Act and under this heading 
in title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116–136) may be used for eligible activities the Secretary 
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determines to be critical in order to assist survivors of do-
mestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalk-
ing or to assist homeless youth, age 24 and under: Pro-
vided further, That a grantee, when contracting with serv-
ice providers engaged directly in the provision of services 
to homeless persons served by the program, shall, to the 
extent practicable, enter into contracts in amounts that 
cover the actual total program costs and administrative 
overhead to provide the services contracted: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts repurposed by this paragraph that 
were previously designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, 
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being 
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance authorized in section 
201 of division O of this Act (the ‘‘COVID–19 HERO 
ACT’’), $50,000,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
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Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Project-Based Rental 
Assistance’’, $750,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, and to be used under the same authority and con-
ditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That up to 
0.5 percent of the amounts made available under this 
heading in this Act may be transferred to ‘‘Department 
of Housing and Urban Development—Program Offices— 
Office of Housing’’ for necessary costs of administering 
and overseeing the obligation and expenditure of amounts 
under this heading in this Act, to remain available until 
September 30, 2030: Provided further, That such amount 
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
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HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing for the El-
derly’’, $500,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2023, and to be used under the same authority and 
conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That not-
withstanding the first proviso under this heading in the 
CARES Act, $300,000,000 of the amount made available 
under this heading in this Act shall be for one-time grants 
for service coordinators, as authorized under section 676 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 
(42 U.S.C. 13632), and the continuation of existing con-
gregate service grants for residents of assisted housing 
projects: Provided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the 
amounts made available under this heading in this Act 
may be transferred to ‘‘Department of Housing and 
Urban Development—Program Offices—Office of Hous-
ing’’ for necessary costs of administering and overseeing 
the obligation and expenditure of amounts under this 
heading in this Act, to remain available until September 
30, 2030: Provided further, That such amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
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quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing for Persons 
with Disabilities’’, $45,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2023, and to be used under the same au-
thority and conditions as the additional appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division 
B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, 
That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts made available 
under this heading in this Act may be transferred to ‘‘De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development—Program 
Offices—Office of Housing’’ for necessary costs of admin-
istering and overseeing the obligation and expenditure of 
amounts under this heading in this Act, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2030: Provided further, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Fair Housing Activi-
ties’’, $14,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2022, and to be used under the same authority and 
conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That of the 
funds made available under this heading in this Act, 
$4,000,000 shall be for Fair Housing Organization Initia-
tive grants through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program 
(FHIP), made available to existing grantees, which may 
be used for fair housing activities and for technology and 
equipment needs to deliver services through use of the 
Internet or other electronic or virtual means in response 
to the public health emergency related to the Coronavirus 
Disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under this heading in 
this Act, $10,000,000 shall be for FHIP Education and 
Outreach grants made available to previously-funded na-
tional media grantees and State and local education and 
outreach grantees, to educate the public and the housing 
industry about fair housing rights and responsibilities dur-
ing the COVID–19 pandemic: Provided further, That such 
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grants in the preceding proviso shall be divided evenly be-
tween the national media campaign and education and 
outreach activities: Provided further, That up to 0.5 per-
cent of the amounts made available under this heading 
in this Act may be transferred to ‘‘Department of Housing 
and Urban Development—Program Offices—Fair Hous-
ing and Equal Opportunity’’ for necessary costs of admin-
istering and overseeing the obligation and expenditure of 
amounts under this heading in this Act, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2030: Provided further, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro-
vided, That the funding made available under this heading 
in this Act shall be used for conducting audits and inves-
tigations of projects and activities carried by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development to prevent, pre-
pare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided further, 
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being 
for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
RELATED AGENCY 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Payment to the 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’’, $100,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, to the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation (‘‘NRC’’) for housing coun-
seling for households threatened with housing instability 
due to the economic circumstances caused by the COVID- 
19 pandemic, under the following terms and conditions: 
(1) The NRC shall make grants to counseling 
intermediaries approved by the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development (‘‘HUD’’) to provide 
housing counseling assistance to help prevent and 
respond to the displacement of residents due to evic-
tion, default of mortgages, or foreclosure of mort-
gages (‘‘Housing Counseling Assistance’’). State 
Housing Finance Agencies may also be eligible to re-
ceive grants where they meet all the requirements 
under this heading. NRC may target grants may to 
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and State 
Housing Finance Agencies based on their ability to 
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serve the most vulnerable communities, based on an 
analysis by the NRC of which areas are most im-
pacted by the economic circumstances caused by the 
COVID-19 pandemic. 
(2) Housing Counseling Assistance shall be 
made available to consumers facing housing insta-
bility (‘‘Housing Counseling Clients’’). Housing 
Counseling Clients will be provided such assistance 
that shall consist of activities that are likely to pre-
vent evictions or foreclosures, and result in the long- 
term affordability of the housing unit retained pur-
suant to such activity or another positive outcome 
for the Housing Counseling Client. No funds made 
available under this heading may be provided di-
rectly to lenders, to landlords, or to Housing Coun-
seling Clients to discharge outstanding rent or mort-
gage balances or for any other direct debt reduction 
payments. 
(3) Not less than 40 percent of grant funds 
made available under this heading shall be provided 
to counseling organizations that target Housing 
Counseling Assistance to minority and low-income 
homeowners, renters, individuals experiencing home-
lessness, and individuals at risk of homelessness or 
provide such services in neighborhoods with high 
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concentrations of minority and low-income home-
owners, renters, individuals experiencing homeless-
ness, and individuals at risk of homelessness. 
(4) The delivery of Housing Counseling Assist-
ance as provided under this heading shall involve a 
reasonable analysis of the Housing Counseling Cli-
ent’s financial situation, resources available to the 
Housing Counseling Client, and advice on applicable 
laws or rules regarding eviction protections, mort-
gage forbearance, or foreclosure protection. 
(5) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the 
Housing Counseling Assistance grant funds under 
this heading to its own charter members with exper-
tise in housing counseling, subject to a certification 
by the NRC that the procedures for selection do not 
consist of any procedures or activities that could be 
construed as an unacceptable conflict of interest or 
have the appearance of impropriety. 
(6) 
The 
HUD-approved 
counseling 
inter-
mediaries and State Housing Finance Agencies re-
ceiving funds under this heading shall have dem-
onstrated experience in housing counseling (includ-
ing foreclosure counseling, rental counseling, home-
lessness, and/or financial counseling) and outreach. 
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NRC may use other criteria to demonstrate capacity, 
particularly in underserved areas. 
(7) Of the total amount made available under 
this heading, up to 4 percent of the amounts made 
available under this heading in this Act may be 
made available to support non-grant costs associated 
with the Housing Counseling Assistance grants pro-
gram, including training, administrative costs, grant 
compliance, and evaluation. 
(8) The NRC shall build the relevant capacities 
of HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and 
State Housing Finance Agencies through a com-
prehensive training program of NRC training 
courses, except that private financial institutions 
that participate in NRC training shall pay market 
rates for such training. 
(9) Housing Counseling Assistance grants may 
include a budget for outreach, advertising, tech-
nology, reporting, training, sub-grantee oversight, 
and other program-related support as determined by 
the NRC. 
(10) The NRC shall report annually to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate as well as the Senate 
Banking Committee and House Financial Services 
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(A) by inserting ‘‘or for any other award 
year that includes any portion of a qualifying 
emergency period,’’ after ‘‘2020–2021,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and a nonprofit organi-
zation providing employment under section 
443(b)(5) of such Act’’ after ‘‘waive the re-
quirement that a participating institution of 
higher education’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘during a pe-
riod of a qualifying emergency’’ and inserting ‘‘dur-
ing any award year that includes any portion of a 
qualifying emergency period’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136). 
SEC. 112. SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY 
GRANTS FOR EMERGENCY AID. 
(a) USE
AND TREATMENT.—Section 3504 of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘that in-
cludes any portion of a qualifying emergency period’’ 
after ‘‘for a fiscal year’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (c). 
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136). 
SEC. 116. FUNDING FOR HBCU CAPITAL FINANCING; EN-
DOWMENT CHALLENGE GRANTS. 
(a) FUNDING FOR HBCU CAPITAL FINANCING.— 
(1) AMENDMENTS.—Section 3512 of division A 
of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-
rity Act (20 U.S.C. 1001 note) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking 
‘‘may’’ and inserting ‘‘shall’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (2)— 
(I) in subparagraph (A), by strik-
ing ‘‘or interest’’ and inserting ‘‘or in-
terest, or any applicable fees or re-
quired funds,’’; and 
(II) in subparagraph (B)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘payments’’ 
and inserting ‘‘payments, and 
any payments of applicable fees 
and required funds,’’; and 
(bb) by striking the period 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
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‘‘(1) NO ACCRUAL OF INTEREST.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—During the period de-
scribed in subparagraph (D), interest on a Fed-
eral student loan shall not accrue or shall be 
paid by the Secretary (or the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services) during— 
‘‘(i) the repayment period of such 
loan; 
‘‘(ii) any period excluded from the re-
payment period of such loan (including any 
period of deferment or forbearance); 
‘‘(iii) any period in which the bor-
rower of such loan is in a grace period; or 
‘‘(iv) any period in which the borrower 
of such loan is in default on such loan. 
‘‘(B) DIRECT LOANS AND DEPARTMENT OF 
EDUCATION
HELD
FFEL
AND
PERKINS 
LOANS.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), in-
terest shall not accrue on a Federal student 
loan defined in section 3502(a)(2)(A). 
‘‘(C) FFEL AND
PERKINS
LOANS
NOT 
HELD
BY
THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
EDUCATION 
AND
HHS
LOANS.—For purposes of subpara-
graph (A)— 
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‘‘(i) in the case of a Federal student 
loan defined in section 3502(a)(2)(B), the 
Secretary shall pay, on a monthly basis, 
the amount of interest due on the unpaid 
principal of such loan to the holder of such 
loan, except that any payments made 
under this clause shall not affect payment 
calculations under section 438 of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087–1); and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of a Federal student 
loan defined in section 3502(a)(2)(C), the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services 
shall pay, on a monthly basis, the amount 
of interest due on the unpaid principal of 
such loan to the holder of such loan. 
‘‘(D) PERIOD DESCRIBED.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The period de-
scribed in this clause is the period begin-
ning on March 13, 2020, and ending on 
the later of— 
‘‘(I) September 30, 2021; or 
‘‘(II) the day following the date 
of enactment of the Pandemic Edu-
cation Response Act that is 2 months 
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