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11374(a), amounts made available pursuant to para-
graph (1) may also be used for costs of the following 
activities: 
(A) Providing training on infectious dis-
ease prevention and mitigation. 
(B) Providing hazard pay, including for 
time worked before the effectiveness of this sub-
paragraph, for staff working directly to prevent 
and mitigate the spread of coronavirus or 
COVID-19 among people experiencing or at 
risk of homelessness. 
(C) Reimbursement of costs for eligible ac-
tivities (including activities described in this 
paragraph) relating to preventing, preparing 
for, or responding to the coronavirus or 
COVID-19 that were accrued before the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
(D) 
Notwithstanding 
CFR 
576.102(a)(3), providing a hotel or motel 
voucher for a homeless individual or family. 
Use of such amounts for activities described in this 
paragraph shall not be considered use for adminis-
trative purposes for purposes of section 418 of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11377). 
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(4) 
INAPPLICABILITY
OF
PROCUREMENT 
STANDARDS.—To the extent amounts made available 
pursuant to paragraph (1) are used to procure goods 
and services relating to activities to prevent, prepare 
for, or respond to the coronavirus or COVID-19, the 
standards and requirements regarding procurement 
that are otherwise applicable shall not apply. 
(5) INAPPLICABILITY
OF
HABITABILITY
AND 
ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEW
STANDARDS.—Any Fed-
eral standards and requirements regarding habit-
ability and environmental review shall not apply with 
respect to any emergency shelter that is assisted 
with amounts made available pursuant to paragraph 
(1) and has been determined by a State or local 
health official, in accordance with such requirements 
as the Secretary shall establish, to be necessary to 
prevent and mitigate the spread of coronavirus or 
COVID-19, such shelters. 
(6) INAPPLICABILITY OF CAP ON EMERGENCY 
SHELTER
ACTIVITIES.—Subsection (b) of section 
415 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act shall not apply to any amounts made available 
pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection. 
(7) INITIAL ALLOCATION OF ASSISTANCE.—Sec-
tion 417(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
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ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11376(b)) shall be applied with 
respect to amounts made available pursuant to para-
graph (1) of this subsection by substituting ‘‘30- 
day’’ for ‘‘60-day’’. 
(8) WAIVERS
AND
ALTERNATIVE
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(A) 
AUTHORITY.—In 
administering 
amounts made available pursuant to paragraph 
(1), the Secretary may waive, or specify alter-
native requirements for, any provision of any 
statute or regulation (except for any require-
ments related to fair housing, nondiscrimina-
tion, labor standards, and the environment) 
that the Secretary administers in connection 
with the obligation or use by the recipient of 
such amounts, if the Secretary finds that good 
cause exists for the waiver or alternative re-
quirement and such waiver or alternative re-
quirement is consistent with the purposes de-
scribed in this subsection. 
(B) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall 
notify the public through the Federal Register 
or other appropriate means 5 days before the 
effective date of any such waiver or alternative 
requirement, and any such public notice may be 
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provided on the Internet at the appropriate 
Government web site or through other elec-
tronic media, as determined by the Secretary. 
(C) EXEMPTION.—The use of amounts 
made available pursuant to paragraph (1) shall 
not be subject to the consultation, citizen par-
ticipation, or match requirements that other-
wise apply to the Emergency Solutions Grants 
program, except that a recipient shall publish 
how it has and will utilize its allocation at a 
minimum on the Internet at the appropriate 
Government web site or through other elec-
tronic media. 
(9) INAPPLICABILITY OF MATCHING REQUIRE-
MENT.—Subsection (a) of section 416 of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11375(a)) shall not apply to any amounts made 
available pursuant to paragraph (1) of this sub-
section. 
(10) PROHIBITION ON PREREQUISITES.—None 
of the funds authorized under this subsection may 
be used to require people experiencing homelessness 
to receive treatment or perform any other pre-
requisite activities as a condition for receiving shel-
ter, housing, or other services. 
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(b) CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAM.—Due to the 
emergency relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 
(COVID-19) pandemic, the Notice of Funding Availability 
(NOFA) for fiscal year 2020 for the Continuum of Care 
program under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) 
shall have no force or effect and the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development shall distribute amounts made 
available for such fiscal year for such program based on 
the results of the competition for amounts made available 
for such program for fiscal year 2019 (FR–6300–25), ex-
cept that grant amounts may be adjusted to account for 
changes in fair market rents. 
SEC. 202. EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE VOUCHER 
PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Secretary’’), $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, to re-
main available until expended, for incremental emergency 
vouchers under subsection (b). 
(b) EMERGENCY VOUCHERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide 
emergency rental assistance vouchers under this sub-
section, which shall be tenant-based rental assistance 
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public housing agencies in accordance with 
a formula that considers— 
(I) the capability of public hous-
ing agencies to promptly use emer-
gency vouchers provided under this 
section; and 
(II) the need for emergency 
vouchers provided under this section 
in the geographical area, based on 
factors determined by the Secretary, 
including risk of transmission of 
coronavirus, high numbers or rates of 
sheltered and unsheltered homeless-
ness, and economic and housing mar-
ket conditions; 
(ii) allocate remaining amounts in ac-
cordance with a formula that considers— 
(I) the criteria under clause (i) 
and the success of a public housing 
agency in promptly utilizing vouchers 
awarded under clause (i); and 
(II) the capability of the public 
housing agency to create and manage 
structured partnerships with service 
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providers for the delivery of appro-
priate community-based services; and 
(iii) designate the number of vouchers 
under this section that each public housing 
agency that is awarded funds under this 
section is authorized to administer. 
(C) ELECTION NOT TO ADMINISTER.—If a 
public housing agency elects not to administer 
amounts under this section, the Secretary shall 
award such amounts to other public housing 
agencies according to the criteria in subpara-
graph (B). 
(D) FAILURE TO USE VOUCHERS PROMPT-
LY.—If a public housing agency fails to issue 
all of its authorized vouchers under this section 
on behalf of eligible families within a reasonable 
period of time as determined by the Secretary, 
the Secretary shall reallocate any unissued 
vouchers and associated funds to others public 
housing agencies according to the criteria under 
subparagraph (B)(ii). 
(3) WAIVERS
AND
ALTERNATIVE
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Any waiver or alternative requirement that 
the Secretary makes available to all public housing 
agencies in connection with assistance made avail-
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able under the heading ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental As-
sistance’’ in title XII of division B of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat.601) shall apply 
to assistance under this section until the expiration 
of such waiver or alternative requirement. 
(4) TERMINATION OF VOUCHERS UPON TURN-
OVER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—A public housing agen-
cy may not reissue any vouchers made available 
under this section when assistance for the fam-
ily initially assisted is terminated. 
(B) REALLOCATION.—Upon termination of 
assistance for one or more families assisted by 
a public housing agency under this section, the 
Secretary shall reallocate amounts that are no 
longer needed by such public housing agency 
for assistance under this section to another 
public housing agency for the renewal of vouch-
ers previously authorized under this section. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 29, 2020. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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