746 
(B) control a percentage of votes equal to 
the percentage of the total value of the com-
pany the government’s share will represent 
after the investment. 
(3) AUTHORITY TO SELL, EXERCISE, OR SUR-
RENDER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—For the primary benefit 
of taxpayers, the Secretary may sell, exercise, 
or surrender a warrant or any senior debt in-
strument received under this section, based on 
the conditions established under paragraph (1). 
(B) PROCEEDS.—Of any proceeds received 
through the sale, exercise, or surrender of any 
warrant or any senior debt instrument— 
(i) 65 percent shall be transferred or 
credited to the Housing Trust Fund estab-
lished under section 1338 of the Federal 
Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and 
Soundness Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4568); 
and 
(ii) 35 percent shall be transferred or 
credited to the Capital Magnet Fund under 
section 1339 of the Federal Housing En-
terprises Financial Safety and Soundness 
Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4569). 
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(4) CONVERSION.—The warrant shall provide 
that if, after the warrant is received by the Sec-
retary under this section, the company that issued 
the warrant is no longer listed or traded on a na-
tional securities exchange or securities association, 
as described in subsection (b)(1), the Secretary will 
have an option to convert the warrants to senior 
debt to ensure that the Treasury is appropriately 
compensated for the value of the warrant, in an 
amount determined by the Secretary for the primary 
benefit of taxpayers. 
(5) PROTECTIONS.—Any warrant representing 
securities to be received by the Secretary under this 
section shall contain anti-dilution provisions of the 
type employed in capital market transactions, as de-
termined by the Secretary for the primary benefit of 
taxpayers. Such provisions shall protect the value of 
the securities from market transactions such as 
stock splits, stock distributions, dividends, and other 
distributions, mergers, and other forms of reorga-
nization or recapitalization. 
(6) EXERCISE PRICE.—The exercise price for 
any warrant issued pursuant to this section shall be 
set by the Secretary, for the primary benefit of tax-
payers. 
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(7) SUFFICIENCY.—The company shall guar-
antee to the Secretary that it has authorized shares 
of stock available to fulfill its obligations under this 
section. Should the company not have sufficient au-
thorized shares, including preferred shares that may 
carry dividend rights equal to a multiple number of 
common shares, the Secretary may, to the extent 
necessary for the primary benefit of taxpayers, ac-
cept a senior debt note in an amount, and on such 
terms as will compensate the Secretary with equiva-
lent value, in the event that a sufficient shareholder 
vote to authorize the necessary additional shares 
cannot be obtained. 
(d) EXCEPTIONS.—The Secretary may establish an 
exception to the requirements of this section and appro-
priate alternative requirements for any participating com-
pany that is legally prohibited from issuing securities and 
debt instruments, so as not to allow circumvention of the 
requirements of this section. 
(e) PROHIBITIONS OF FOREIGN COMPANIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may not pur-
chase, or make any commitment to purchase, or 
guarantee, or make any commitment to guarantee, 
any asset in response to the coronavirus disease 
(COVID–19) outbreak from— 
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(A) any foreign incorporated entity that 
the Secretary has determined is an inverted do-
mestic corporation or any subsidiary of such en-
tity; or 
(B) any joint venture if more than 10 per-
cent of the joint venture (by vote or value) is 
held by a foreign incorporated entity that the 
Secretary has determined is an inverted domes-
tic corporation or any subsidiary of such entity. 
(2) INVERTED DOMESTIC CORPORATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this 
subsection, a foreign incorporated entity shall 
be treated as an inverted domestic corporation 
if, pursuant to a plan (or a series of related 
transactions)— 
(i) the entity completes on or after 
May 8, 2014, the direct or indirect acquisi-
tion of— 
(I) substantially all of the prop-
erties held directly or indirectly by a 
domestic corporation; or 
(II) substantially all of the assets 
of, or substantially all of the prop-
erties constituting a trade or business 
of, a domestic partnership; and 
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(ii) after the acquisition, either— 
(I) more than 50 percent of the 
stock (by vote or value) of the entity 
is held— 
(aa) in the case of an acqui-
sition with respect to a domestic 
corporation, by former share-
holders of the domestic corpora-
tion by reason of holding stock in 
the domestic corporation; or 
(bb) in the case of an acqui-
sition with respect to a domestic 
partnership, by former partners 
of the domestic partnership by 
reason of holding a capital or 
profits interest in the domestic 
partnership; or 
(II) the management and control 
of the expanded affiliated group which 
includes the entity occurs, directly or 
indirectly, primarily within the United 
States, as determined pursuant to 
regulations prescribed by the Sec-
retary, and such expanded affiliated 
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group has significant domestic busi-
ness activities. 
(B) EXCEPTION FOR CORPORATIONS WITH 
SUBSTANTIAL
BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES
IN
FOR-
EIGN COUNTRY OF ORGANIZATION.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—A foreign incor-
porated entity described in subparagraph 
(A) shall not be treated as an inverted do-
mestic corporation if after the acquisition 
the expanded affiliated group which in-
cludes the entity has substantial business 
activities in the foreign country in which or 
under the law of which the entity is cre-
ated or organized when compared to the 
total business activities of such expanded 
affiliated group. 
(ii) SUBSTANTIAL
BUSINESS
ACTIVI-
TIES.—The Secretary shall establish regu-
lations for determining whether an affili-
ated group has substantial business activi-
ties for purposes of clause (i), except that 
such regulations may not treat any group 
as having substantial business activities if 
such group would not be considered to 
have substantial business activities under 
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lations referred to in subparagraph (B) as 
in effect on January 18, 2017, but applied 
by treating all references in such regula-
tions to ‘‘foreign country’’ and ‘‘relevant 
foreign country’’ as references to ‘‘the 
United States’’. The Secretary may issue 
regulations decreasing the threshold per-
cent in any of the tests under such regula-
tions for determining if business activities 
constitute significant domestic business ac-
tivities for purposes of this subparagraph. 
(3) WAIVER.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may 
waive paragraph (1) if the Secretary determines 
that the waiver is— 
(i) required in the interest of national 
security; or 
(ii) necessary for the efficient or effec-
tive administration of Federal or federally 
funded— 
(I) programs that provide health 
benefits to individuals; or 
(II) public health programs. 
(B) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Sec-
retary shall, not later than 14 days after 
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issuing such waiver, submit a written notifica-
tion of the waiver to the relevant authorizing 
committees of Congress and the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives. 
(4) DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL RULES.— 
(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 
terms ‘‘expanded affiliated group’’, ‘‘foreign in-
corporated entity’’, ‘‘domestic’’, and ‘‘foreign’’ 
have the meaning given those terms in section 
835(c) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 395(c)). 
(B) SPECIAL
RULES.—In applying para-
graph (2) of this subsection for purposes of 
paragraph (1) of this subsection, the rules de-
scribed under 835(c)(1) of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 395(c)(1)) shall 
apply. 
(5) REGULATIONS
REGARDING
MANAGEMENT 
AND CONTROL.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, for 
purposes of this subsection, prescribe regula-
tions for purposes of determining cases in which 
the management and control of an expanded af-
filiated group is to be treated as occurring, di-
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rectly or indirectly, primarily within the United 
States. The regulations prescribed under the 
preceding sentence shall apply to periods after 
May 8, 2014. 
(B) EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
AND
SENIOR 
MANAGEMENT.—The 
regulations 
prescribed 
under subparagraph (A) shall provide that the 
management and control of an expanded affili-
ated group shall be treated as occurring, di-
rectly or indirectly, primarily within the United 
States if substantially all of the executive offi-
cers and senior management of the expanded 
affiliated group who exercise day-to-day respon-
sibility for making decisions involving strategic, 
financial, and operational policies of the ex-
panded affiliated group are based or primarily 
located within the United States. Individuals 
who in fact exercise such day-to-day responsibil-
ities shall be treated as executive officers and 
senior management regardless of their title. 
(f) PREEMPTION.—Any State or Federal laws that 
prohibit the transactions authorized by this statute, in-
cluding state or federal laws that prohibit company direc-
tors from agreeing to the transactions authorized by this 
statute, are preempted and superseded by this statute. 
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SEC. 409. AUTHORIZATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEW 
ARRANGEMENTS TO BORROW OF THE INTER-
NATIONAL MONETARY FUND. 
Section 17 of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act (22 
U.S.C. 286e–2) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3) 
through (5) as paragraphs (4) through (6) and 
inserting after paragraph (2) the following: 
‘‘(3) In order to carry out the purposes of a 
one-time decision of the Executive Directors of the 
International Monetary Fund (the Fund) to expand 
the resources of the New Arrangements to Borrow, 
established pursuant to the decision of January 27, 
1997 referred to in paragraph (1) above, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury is authorized to make loans, 
in an amount not to exceed the dollar equivalent of 
28,202,470,000 of Special Drawing Rights, in addi-
tion to any amounts previously authorized under this 
section; except that prior to activation of the New 
Arrangements to Borrow, the Secretary shall report 
to Congress on whether supplementary resources are 
needed to forestall or cope with an impairment of 
the international monetary system and whether the 
Fund has fully explored other means of funding to 
the Fund.’’; and 
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(B) in paragraph (6) (as so redesignated 
by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph), by 
striking ‘‘December 16, 2022’’ and inserting 
‘‘December 31, 2025’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)(1), by inserting ‘‘(a)(3),’’ 
after ‘‘(a)(2),’’. 
SEC. 410. øRESERVED¿. 
øReserved¿ 
SEC. 411. øRESERVED¿. 
øReserved¿ 
SEC. 412. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION. 
The International Finance Corporation Act (22 
U.S.C. 282 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 18. CAPITAL INCREASES AND AMENDMENT TO THE 
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 
‘‘(a) VOTES AUTHORIZED.—The United States Gov-
ernor of the Corporation is authorized to vote in favor of— 
‘‘(1) a resolution to increase the authorized cap-
ital stock of the Corporation by 16,999,998 shares, 
to implement the conversion of a portion of the re-
tained earnings of the Corporation into paid-in cap-
ital, which will result in the United States being 
issued an additional 3,771,899 shares of capital 
stock, without any cash contribution; 
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‘‘(2) a resolution to increase the authorized cap-
ital stock of the Corporation on a general basis by 
4,579,995 shares; and 
‘‘(3) a resolution to increase the authorized cap-
ital stock of the Corporation on a selective basis by 
919,998 shares. 
‘‘(b) AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF AGREE-
MENT.—The United States Governor of the Corporation 
is authorized to agree to and accept an amendment to Ar-
ticle II, Section 2(c)(ii) of the Articles of Agreement of 
the Corporation that would increase the vote by which the 
Board of Governors of the Corporation may increase the 
capital stock of the Corporation from a four-fifths major-
ity to an 85 percent majority.’’. 
SEC. 413. OVERSIGHT AND REPORTS. 
(a) OVERSIGHT.— 
(1) SIGTARP.—As provided for under section 
405 of this division, the Special Inspector General 
for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) 
shall have oversight of the Secretary’s administra-
tion of the loans, loan guarantees, and other invest-
ments provided under section 101 of division Y, the 
use of the funds by eligible businesses, and compli-
ance with the requirements of section 407. 
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(2) OVERSIGHT PANEL.—As provided for under 
section 405 of this division, the Congressional 
COVID–19 Aid Oversight Panel shall have oversight 
of the Secretary’s administration of the loans, loan 
guarantees, and other investments provided under 
section 101 of division Y, the use of the funds by 
eligible businesses, and compliance with the require-
ments of section 407. 
(b) SECRETARY.—The Secretary shall, with respect 
to the loans, loan guarantees, and other investments pro-
vided under section 101 of division Y, make such reports 
as are required under section 5302 of title 31, United 
States Code. 
(c) GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE.— 
(1) STUDY.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States shall conduct a study on the loans 
and loan guarantees provided under section 101 of 
division Y. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 9 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and annually 
thereafter through the year succeeding the last year 
for which loans or loan guarantees provided under 
section 101 of division Y are in effect, the Comp-
troller General shall submit to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services, the Committee on Appropriations, 
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and the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Ap-
propriations, and the Committee on the Budget of 
the Senate a report on the loans and loan guaran-
tees provided under section 101 of division Y. 
(d) 
DIVERSITY
REPORT.—The 
Congressional 
COVID–19 Aid Oversight Panel, in conjunction with the 
SIGTARP, shall collect diversity data from any corpora-
tion that receives Federal aid related to COVID–19, and 
issue a report that will be made publicly available no later 
than one year after the disbursement of funds. In addition 
to any other data, the report shall include the following: 
(1) EMPLOYEE
DEMOGRAPHICS.—The gender, 
race, and ethnic identity (and to the extent possible, 
results disaggregated by ethnic group) of the cor-
poration’s employees, as otherwise known or pro-
vided voluntarily for the total number of employees 
(full- and part-time) and the career level of employ-
ees (executive and manager versus employees in 
other roles). 
(2) SUPPLIER
DIVERSITY.—The number and 
dollar value invested with minority- and women- 
owned suppliers (and to the extent possible, results 
disaggregated by ethnic group), including profes-
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sional services (legal and consulting) and asset man-
agers, and deposits and other accounts with minority 
depository institutions, as compared to all vendor in-
vestments. 
(3) PAY
EQUITY.—A comparison of pay 
amongst racial and ethnic minorities (and to the ex-
tent possible, results disaggregated by ethnic group) 
as compared to their white counterparts and com-
parison of pay between men and women for similar 
roles and assignments. 
(4) CORPORATE BOARD DIVERSITY.—Corporate 
board demographic data, including total number of 
board members, gender, race and ethnic identity of 
board members (and to the extent possible, results 
disaggregated by ethnic group), as otherwise known 
or provided voluntarily, board position titles, as well 
as any leadership and subcommittee assignments. 
(5) DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OFFICES.—The 
reporting structure of lead diversity officials, number 
of staff and budget dedicated to diversity and inclu-
sion initiatives. 
(e) DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES.—Any 
corporation that receives Federal aid related to COVID– 
19 must maintain officials and budget dedicated to diver-
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sity and inclusion initiatives for no less than 5 years after 
disbursement of funds. 
TITLE V—PANDEMIC PLANNING 
AND 
GUIDANCE 
FOR 
CON-
SUMERS AND REGULATORS 
SEC. 501. FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION COMMISSION 
EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to pro-
vide financial literacy education, including information on 
access to banking services and other financial products, 
for individuals seeking information and resources as they 
recover from any financial distress caused by the 
coronavirus disease (COVID–19) outbreak and future 
major disasters. 
(b) FINANCIAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION COMMIS-
SION RESPONSE TO THE COVID–19 EMERGENCY.— 
(1) SPECIAL MEETING.—Not later than the end 
of the 60-day period beginning on the date of enact-
ment of this section, the Financial Literacy and 
Education Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) shall 
convene a special meeting to discuss and plan assist-
ance related to the financial impacts of the COVID– 
19 emergency. 
(2) UPDATE OF THE COMMISSION’S WEBSITE.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the end 
of the 60-day period beginning on the date of 
enactment of this section, the Commission shall 
update the website of the Commission with a 
full list of tools to help individuals recover from 
any financial hardship as a result of the 
COVID–19 emergency. 
(B) SPECIFIC
REQUIREMENTS.—In per-
forming the update required under subpara-
graph (A), the Commission shall— 
(i) place special emphasis on providing 
an additional set of tools geared towards 
women, racial and ethnic minorities, vet-
erans, disabled, and LGBTQ+ commu-
nities; and 
(ii) provide information in English 
and Spanish. 
(C) INFORMATION FROM MEMBERS.—Not 
later than the end of the 60-day period begin-
ning on the date of enactment of this section, 
each Federal department or agency that is a 
member of the Commission shall provide an up-
date on the website of the Commission dis-
closing any tools that the department or agency 
is offering to individuals or to employees of the 
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department or agency related to the COVID–19 
emergency. 
(3) IMPLEMENTATION REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
The Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of 
the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection shall, 
jointly and not later than the end of the 30-day pe-
riod following the date on which the meeting re-
quired under paragraph (1) is held and all updates 
required under paragraph (2) have been completed, 
report to Congress on the implementation of this 
section. 
(4) COVID–19 EMERGENCY DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘‘COVID–19 emergency’’ means 
the emergency declared on March 13, 2020, by the 
President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 4121 
et seq.) relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 
(COVID–19) pandemic. 
SEC. 502. INTERAGENCY PANDEMIC GUIDANCE FOR CON-
SUMERS. 
(a) INTERAGENCY PANDEMIC GUIDANCE.— 
(1) GUIDANCE.—Not later than the end of the 
60-day period beginning on the date of enactment of 
this section, the Federal financial regulators shall 
issue interagency regulatory guidance on prepared-
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ness, flexibility, and relief options for consumers in 
pandemics and major disasters, such as deferment, 
forbearance, affordable payment plan options, and 
other options such as delays on debt collections and 
wage garnishments. 
(2) UPDATES.—The Federal financial regu-
lators shall update the guidance required under 
paragraph (1) as necessary to keep such guidance 
current. 
(b) PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS TESTING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the end of 
the 2-year period beginning on the date of enact-
ment of this section, and every 5 years thereafter, 
the Federal financial regulators shall carry out test-
ing along with the institutions regulated by the Fed-
eral financial regulators to determine how effectively 
such institutions will be able to respond to a pan-
demic or major disaster. 
(2) REPORT.—After the end of each test re-
quired under paragraph (1), the Federal financial 
regulators shall, jointly, issue a report to Congress 
containing the results of such test and any regu-
latory or legislative recommendations the regulators 
may have to increase pandemic preparedness. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) FEDERAL
FINANCIAL
REGULATORS.—The 
term ‘‘Federal financial regulators’’ means the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, the 
Comptroller of the Currency, the Director of the 
Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Federal De-
posit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit 
Union Administration, the Secretary of Agriculture, 
and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment. 
(2) MAJOR DISASTER.—The term ‘‘major dis-
aster’’ means a major disaster declared by the Presi-
dent under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170),
under which assistance is authorized 
under section 408 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5174), or 
section 501 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5191). 
SEC. 503. SEC PANDEMIC GUIDANCE FOR INVESTORS. 
(a) PANDEMIC GUIDANCE.— 
(1) GUIDANCE.—Not later than the end of the 
60-day period beginning on the date of enactment of 
this section, the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion shall issue regulatory guidance on preparedness, 
flexibility, relief, and investor protection for inves-
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tors in pandemics and major disasters, including rel-
evant disclosures. 
(2) UPDATES.—The Commission shall update 
the guidance required under paragraph (1) as nec-
essary to keep such guidance current. 
(b) PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS TESTING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the end of 
the 60-day period beginning on the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and every 5 years thereafter, the 
Securities and Exchange Commission shall carry out 
testing along with the entities regulated by the Com-
mission to determine how effectively such entities 
will be able to respond to a pandemic or major dis-
aster. 
(2) REPORT.—After the end of each test re-
quired under paragraph (1), the Commission shall 
issue a report to Congress containing the results of 
such test and any regulatory or legislative rec-
ommendations the Commission may have to increase 
pandemic preparedness. 
(c) MAJOR DISASTER DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘major disaster’’ means a major disaster declared 
by the President under section 401 of the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170),
under which assistance is authorized 
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under section 408 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5174), or sec-
tion 501 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5191). 
SEC. 504. UPDATES OF THE PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PLAN 
AND NATIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORKS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year following 
the end of the Declaration of the National Emergency, the 
President shall ensure that the Pandemic Influenza Plan 
(2017 Update) and the National Planning Frameworks 
are updated. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consulta-
tion with the Federal financial regulators, shall provide 
to the President the following: 
(1) An assessment of the effectiveness of cur-
rent plans and strategies to address the economic, fi-
nancial, and monetary issues arising from a pan-
demic or other disaster. 
(2) A description of the most significant chal-
lenges to protecting the economy, the financial sys-
tem, and consumers, during a pandemic or other 
disaster, including the specific challenges experi-
enced by women, racial and ethnic minorities, di-
verse-owned businesses, veterans, and the disabled. 
(3) Actions that could be carried out in a crisis, 
as defined by the preparedness plans described in 
subsection (a), such as the following: 
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(A) Significant increases of unemployment 
insurance benefits (including payment amounts) 
for all workers under a certain income thresh-
old, including freelancers and the self-employed, 
during the crisis. 
(B) Loan deference, modification, and for-
bearance mechanisms of all consumer and busi-
ness payments, allowing long-term repayment 
plans and excluding no industries, during the 
crisis. 
(C) Suspension of foreclosure and eviction 
proceedings taken against individuals or busi-
nesses during the crisis. 
(D) Suspension of all negative consumer 
credit reporting during the crisis. 
(E) Prohibition of debt collection, reposses-
sion, and garnishment of wages during the cri-
sis. 
(F) Provision of emergency homeless as-
sistance during the crisis. 
(G) An increase in Community Develop-
ment Block Grants during the crisis and to im-
prove community response. 
(H) Reduction of hurdles in the form of 
waivers and authorities to modify existing hous-
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ing and homelessness programs to facilitate re-
sponse to the crisis. 
(I) Expand the size standards for eligible 
businesses with access no-interest or low-inter-
est loans through the Small Business Adminis-
tration during the crisis. 
(J) Remove the size standard limits on eli-
gible businesses with access no-interest or low- 
interest loans through the Small Business Ad-
ministration during the crisis for businesses 
that agree to maintain their employment work-
force and preserve benefits during the crisis. 
(K) Support for additional no-interest or 
low-interest loans for small businesses through 
the Small Business Administration during the 
crisis. 
(L) Utilization of the Community Develop-
ment Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund to 
support small businesses as well as low-income 
communities during the crisis. 
(M) Support for State, territory, and local 
government financing during the crisis. 
(N) Waiver of matching requirements for 
municipal governments during the crisis. 
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(O) Suspension of requirements relating to 
minimum distributions for retirement plans and 
individual retirement accounts for the calendar 
years of which the crisis is occurring. 
(b) SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR DIVERSITY.—In 
issuing the updates required under subsection (a), the 
President shall ensure that consideration is given as to 
how to minimize the economic impacts of a crisis on 
women, minorities, diverse-owned businesses, veterans, 
and the disabled. 
(c) MAKING PLANS PUBLIC.—The updated plans de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall be made publicly available, 
but may have classified information redacted. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) DECLARATION
OF
THE
NATIONAL
EMER-
GENCY.—The term ‘‘Declaration of the National 
Emergency’’ means the emergency declared by the 
President under section 501 of the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5191) relating to the COVID–19 pan-
demic. 
(2) FEDERAL
FINANCIAL
REGULATOR.—The 
term ‘‘Federal financial regulators’’ means the Bu-
reau of Consumer Financial Protection, the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing 
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Finance Agency, the Board of Governors of the Fed-
eral Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller 
of the Currency, the National Credit Union Adminis-
tration, and the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion. 
DIVISION J—EDUCATION RELIEF 
AND OTHER PROGRAMS 
TITLE I—EDUCATION 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 100101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘COVID–19 Pandemic 
Education Relief Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 100102. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) CORONAVIRUS.—The term ‘‘coronavirus’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 506 of 
the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supple-
mental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116– 
123). 
(2) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 102 of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 
(3) 
QUALIFYING
EMERGENCY.—The 
term 
‘‘qualifying emergency’’ means— 
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(A) a public health emergency related to 
the coronavirus declared by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services pursuant to sec-
tion 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d); 
(B) an event related to the coronavirus for 
which the President declared a major disaster 
or an emergency under section 401 or 501, re-
spectively, of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170 and 5191); or 
(C) a national emergency related to the 
coronavirus declared by the President under 
section 201 of the National Emergencies Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Education. 
(5) FOREIGN INSTITUTION.—The term ‘‘foreign 
institution’’ means an institution of higher education 
located outside the United States that is described 
in paragraphs (1)(C) and (2) of section 102(a) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1002(a)). 
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SEC. 100103. CAMPUS-BASED AID WAIVERS. 
(a) WAIVER
OF NON-FEDERAL SHARE REQUIRE-
MENT.—Notwithstanding 
sections 
413C(a)(2) 
and 
443(b)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1070b–2(a)(2) and 1087–53(b)(5)), with respect 
to funds made available for award years 2019–2020 and 
2020–2021, the Secretary shall waive the requirement 
that a participating institution of higher education provide 
a non-Federal share to match Federal funds provided to 
the institution for the programs authorized pursuant to 
subpart 3 of part A and part C of title IV of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070b et seq. and 
1087–51 et seq.) for all awards made under such pro-
grams during such award years, except nothing in this 
subsection shall affect the non-Federal share requirement 
under section 443(c)(3) of such Act that applies to private 
for-profit organizations. 
(b) AUTHORITY TO REALLOCATE.—Notwithstanding 
sections 413D, 442, and 488 of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070b–3, 1087–52, and 1095), during 
a period of a qualifying emergency, an institution may 
transfer up to 100 percent of the institution’s unexpended 
allotment under section 442 of such Act to the institu-
tion’s allotment under section 413D of such Act, but may 
not transfer any funds from the institution’s unexpended 
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allotment under section 413D of such Act to the institu-
tion’s allotment under section 442 of such Act. 
SEC. 100104. USE OF SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OP-
PORTUNITY GRANTS FOR EMERGENCY AID. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 413B of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070b–1), 
an institution of higher education may reserve any amount 
of an institution’s allocation under subpart 3 of part A 
of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070b et seq.) for a fiscal year to award, in such fiscal 
year, emergency financial aid grants to assist under-
graduate or graduate students for unexpected expenses 
and unmet financial need as the result of a qualifying 
emergency. 
(b) DETERMINATIONS.—In determining eligibility for 
and awarding emergency financial aid grants under this 
section, an institution of higher education may— 
(1) waive the amount of need calculation under 
section 471 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1087kk); 
(2) allow for a student affected by a qualifying 
emergency to receive funds in an amount that is not 
more than the maximum Federal Pell Grant for the 
applicable award year; and 
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(3) utilize a contract with a scholarship-grant-
ing organization designated for the sole purpose of 
accepting applications from or disbursing funds to 
students enrolled in the institution of higher edu-
cation, if such scholarship-granting organization dis-
burses the full allocated amount provided to the in-
stitution of higher education to the recipients. 
(c) SPECIAL RULE.—Any emergency financial aid 
grants to students under this section shall not be treated 
as other financial assistance for the purposes of section 
471 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087kk). 
SEC. 100105. FEDERAL WORK-STUDY DURING A QUALIFYING 
EMERGENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the event of a qualifying emer-
gency, an institution of higher education participating in 
the program under part C of title IV of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087–51 et seq.) may make 
payments under such part to affected work-study stu-
dents, for the period of time (not to exceed one academic 
year) in which affected students were unable to fulfill the 
students’ work-study obligation for all or part of such aca-
demic year due to such qualifying emergency, as follows: 
(1) Payments may be made under such part to 
affected work-study students in an amount equal to 
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or less than the amount of wages such students 
would have been paid under such part had the stu-
dents been able to complete the work obligation nec-
essary to receive work study funds, as a one time 
grant or as multiple payments. 
(2) Payments shall not be made to any student 
who was not eligible for work study or was not com-
pleting the work obligation necessary to receive work 
study funds under such part prior to the occurrence 
of the qualifying emergency. 
(3) Any payments made to affected work-study 
students under this subsection shall meet the match-
ing requirements of section 443 of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087–53), unless 
such matching requirements are waived by the Sec-
retary. 
(b) DEFINITION OF AFFECTED WORK-STUDY STU-
DENT.—In this section, the term ‘‘affected work-study 
student’’ means a student enrolled at an eligible institu-
tion participating in the program under part C of title IV 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087– 
51 et seq.) who— 
(1) received a work-study award under section 
443 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
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U.S.C. 1087–53) for the academic year during which 
a qualifying emergency occurred; 
(2) earned Federal work-study wages from such 
eligible institution for such academic year; and 
(3) was prevented from fulfilling the student’s 
work-study obligation for all or part of such aca-
demic year due to such qualifying emergency. 
SEC. 100106. ADJUSTMENT OF SUBSIDIZED LOAN USAGE 
LIMITS. 
Notwithstanding section 455(q)(3) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(q)(3)), the Sec-
retary shall exclude from a student’s period of enrollment 
for purposes of loans made under part D of title IV of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et 
seq.) any semester (or the equivalent) that the student 
does not complete due to a qualifying emergency, if the 
Secretary is able to administer such policy in a manner 
that limits complexity and the burden on the student. 
SEC. 100107. EXCLUSION FROM FEDERAL PELL GRANT DU-
RATION LIMIT. 
The Secretary shall exclude from a student’s Federal 
Pell Grant duration limit under section 401(c)(5) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (2 U.S.C. 1070a(c)(5)) any 
semester (or the equivalent) that the student does not 
complete due to a qualifying emergency if the Secretary 
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is able to administer such policy in a manner that limits 
complexity and the burden on the student. 
SEC. 100108. INSTITUTIONAL REFUNDS AND FEDERAL STU-
DENT LOAN FLEXIBILITY. 
(a) INSTITUTIONAL WAIVER.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall waive 
the institutional requirement under section 484B of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1091b) with respect to the amount of grant or loan 
assistance (other than assistance received under part 
C of title IV of such Act) to be returned under such 
section if a recipient of assistance under title IV of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 
et seq.) withdraws from the institution of higher 
education during the payment period or period of 
enrollment as a result of a qualifying emergency. 
(2) WAIVERS.—The Secretary shall require 
each institution using a waiver relating to the with-
drawal of recipients under this subsection to report 
the number of such recipients, the amount of grant 
or loan assistance (other than assistance received 
under part C of title IV of such Act) associated with 
each such recipient, and the total amount of grant 
or loan assistance (other than assistance received 
under part C of title IV of such Act) for which each 
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vide a student with an approved leave of absence that does 
not require the student to return at the same point in the 
academic program that the student began the leave of ab-
sence if the student returns within the same semester (or 
the equivalent). 
SEC. 100109. SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS. 
Notwithstanding section 484 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091), in determining whether a 
student is maintaining satisfactory academic progress for 
purposes of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), an institution of higher edu-
cation may, as a result of a qualifying emergency, exclude 
from the quantitative component of the calculation any at-
tempted credits that were not completed by such student 
without requiring an appeal by such student. 
SEC. 100110. CONTINUING EDUCATION AT AFFECTED FOR-
EIGN INSTITUTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 481(b) 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1088(b)), 
with respect to a foreign institution, in the case of a public 
health emergency, major disaster or emergency, or na-
tional emergency declared by the applicable government 
authorities in the country in which the foreign institution 
is located, the Secretary may permit any part of an other-
wise eligible program to be offered via distance education 
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for the duration of such emergency or disaster and the 
following payment period for purposes of title IV of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.). 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—An otherwise eligible program 
that is offered in whole or in part through distance edu-
cation by a foreign institution between March 1, 2020, and 
the date of enactment of this Act shall be deemed eligible 
for the purposes of part D of title IV of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.) for the dura-
tion of the emergency or disaster affecting the institution 
as described in subsection (a) and the following payment 
period for purposes of title IV of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.). An institution of 
higher education that uses the authority provided in the 
previous sentence shall report such use to the Secretary— 
(1) for the 2019–2020 award year, not later 
than June 30, 2020; and 
(2) for an award year subsequent to the 2019– 
2020 award year, not later than 30 days after such 
use. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter 
for the duration of the applicable disaster or emergency 
and the following payment period, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to the authorizing committees (as defined in section 
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103 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1003)) a report that identifies each foreign institution 
that carried out a distance education program authorized 
under this section. 
(d) WRITTEN ARRANGEMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 102 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1002), with respect to a foreign institution, in the 
case of a public health emergency, major disaster or 
emergency, or national emergency declared by the 
applicable government authorities in the country in 
which the foreign institution is located, the Sec-
retary may allow a foreign institution to enter into 
a written arrangement with an institution of higher 
education located in the United States that partici-
pates in the Federal Direct Loan Program under 
part D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.), for the duration of 
such emergency or disaster and the following pay-
ment period, for the purpose of allowing a student 
of the foreign institution who is a borrower of a loan 
made under such part to take courses from the insti-
tution of higher education located in the United 
States. 
(2) FORM OF ARRANGEMENTS.— 
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(A) PUBLIC OR OTHER NONPROFIT INSTI-
TUTIONS.—A foreign institution that is a public 
or other nonprofit institution may enter into a 
written arrangement under paragraph (1) only 
with an institution of higher education de-
scribed in section 101 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
1001). 
(B) OTHER INSTITUTIONS.—A foreign in-
stitution that is a graduate medical school, 
nursing school, or a veterinary school and that 
is not a public or other nonprofit institution 
may enter into a written arrangement under 
paragraph (1) with an institution of higher edu-
cation described in section 101 or section 102 
of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1001 and 1002). 
(3) REPORT ON USE.—An institution of higher 
education that uses the authority described in para-
graph (2) shall report such use to the Secretary— 
(A) for the 2019–2020 award year, not 
later than June 30, 2020; and 
(B) for an award year subsequent to the 
2019–2020 award year, not later than 30 days 
after such use. 
(4) REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
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Act, and every 180 days thereafter for the duration 
of the applicable disaster or emergency and the fol-
lowing payment period, the Secretary shall submit to 
the authorizing committees (as defined in section 
103 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1003)) a report that identifies each foreign 
institution that entered into a written arrangement 
authorized under paragraph (1). 
SEC. 100111. HBCU CAPITAL FINANCING. 
(a) DEFERMENT PERIOD.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any provi-
sion of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.), or any regulation promul-
gated under such title, the Secretary may grant a 
deferment, for the duration of a qualifying emer-
gency, to an institution of higher education that has 
received a loan under part D of title III of such Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1066 et seq.). 
(2) TERMS.—During the deferment period 
granted under this subsection— 
(A) the institution of higher education 
shall not be required to pay any periodic install-
ment of principal or interest required under the 
loan agreement for such loan; and 
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(B) the Secretary shall make principal and 
interest payments otherwise due under the loan 
agreement. 
(3) CLOSING.—At the closing of a loan deferred 
under this subsection, terms shall be set under 
which the institution of higher education shall be re-
quired to repay the Secretary for the payments of 
principal and interest made by the Secretary during 
the deferment, on a schedule that begins upon re-
payment to the lender in full on the loan agreement, 
except in no case shall repayment be required to 
begin before the date that is 1 full fiscal year after 
the date that is the end of the qualifying emergency. 
(b) TERMINATION DATE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The authority provided 
under this section to grant a loan deferment under 
subsection (a) shall terminate on the date on which 
the qualifying emergency is no longer in effect. 
(2) DURATION.—Any provision of a loan agree-
ment or insurance agreement modified by the au-
thority under this section shall remain so modified 
for the duration of the period covered by the loan 
agreement or insurance agreement. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter 
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during the period beginning on the first day of the quali-
fying emergency and ending on September 30 of the fiscal 
year following the end of the qualifying emergency, the 
Secretary shall submit to the authorizing committees (as 
defined in section 103 of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003)) a report that identifies each insti-
tution of higher education that received assistance under 
this section. 
SEC. 100112. WAIVER AUTHORITY AND REPORTING RE-
QUIREMENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL AID. 
(a) WAIVER
AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), unless enacted with specific ref-
erence to this section, for any institution of higher edu-
cation that was receiving assistance under title III, title 
V, or subpart 4 of part A of title VII of such Act (20 
U.S.C. 1051 et seq.; 1101 et seq.; 1136a et seq.) at the 
time of a qualifying emergency, the Secretary may, for the 
period beginning on the first day of the qualifying emer-
gency and ending on September 30 of the fiscal year fol-
lowing the end of the qualifying emergency— 
(1) waive— 
(A) the eligibility data requirements set 
forth in section 391(d) and 521(e) of the High-
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er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1068(d) 
and 1103(e)); 
(B) the wait-out period set forth in section 
313(d) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1059(d)); 
(C) the allotment requirements under 
paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection 318(e) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1059e(e)), and references to ‘‘the academic year 
preceding the beginning of that fiscal year’’ in 
paragraph (1); 
(D) the allotment requirements under sub-
sections (b), (c), and (g) of section 324 of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1063), and references to ‘‘the end of the school 
year preceding the beginning of that fiscal 
year’’ under subsection (a) and references to 
‘‘the academic year preceding such fiscal year’’ 
under subsection (h) of such section; 
(E) subparagraphs (A), (C), (D), and (E) 
of section 326(f)(3) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1063b(f)(3)), and ref-
erences to ‘‘previous year’’ under subparagraph 
(B) of such section; 
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(F) subparagraphs (A), (C), (D), and (E) 
of section 723(f)(3) and section 724(f)(3) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1136a(f)(3) and 1136b(f)(3)), and references to 
‘‘previous academic year’’ under subparagraph 
(B) of such sections; and 
(G) the allotment restriction set forth in 
section 318(d)(4) and 323(c)(2) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059e(d)(4) 
and 1062(c)(2)); and 
(2) waive or modify any statutory or regulatory 
provision to ensure that institutions that were re-
ceiving assistance under title III, title V, or subpart 
4 of part A of title VII of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1051 
et seq.; 1101 et seq.; 1136a et seq.) at the time of 
a qualifying emergency are not adversely affected by 
any formula calculation for fiscal year 2020 and for 
the period beginning on the first day of the quali-
fying emergency and ending on September 30 of the 
fiscal year following the end of the qualifying emer-
gency, as necessary. 
(b) USE OF UNEXPENDED FUNDS.—Any funds paid 
to an institution under title III, title V, or subpart 4 of 
part A of title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.; 1101 et seq.; 1136a et seq.) and 
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not expended or used for the purposes for which the funds 
were paid to the institution during the 5-year period fol-
lowing the date on which the funds were first paid to the 
institution, may be carried over and expended during the 
succeeding 5-year period. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter 
for the period beginning on the first day of the qualifying 
emergency and ending on September 30 of the fiscal year 
following the end of the qualifying emergency, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the authorizing committees (as de-
fined in section 103 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1003)) a report that identifies each institution 
that received a waiver or modification under this section. 
SEC. 100113. AUTHORIZED USES AND OTHER MODIFICA-
TIONS FOR GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to 
modify the required and allowable uses of funds for grants 
awarded under part A or B of title III, chapters I or II 
of subpart 2 of part A of title IV, title V, or subpart 4 
of part A of title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1057 et seq.; 1060 et seq.; 1070a–11 et seq.; 
1070a–21 et seq.; 1101 et seq.; 1136a et seq.) to an insti-
tution of higher education or other grant recipient (not 
including individual recipients of Federal student financial 
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assistance), at the request of an institution of higher edu-
cation or other recipient of a grant (not including indi-
vidual recipients of Federal student financial assistance) 
as a result of a qualifying emergency, for the period begin-
ning on the first day of the qualifying emergency and end-
ing on September 30 of the fiscal year following the end 
of the qualifying emergency. 
(b) MATCHING REQUIREMENT MODIFICATIONS.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), the Secretary 
is authorized to modify any Federal share or other finan-
cial matching requirement for a grant awarded on a com-
petitive basis, or a grant awarded under part A or B of 
title III or subpart 4 of part A of title VII of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1057 et seq.; 1060 et 
seq.; 1136a et seq.) at the request of an institution of 
higher education or other grant recipient as a result of 
a qualifying emergency, for the period beginning on the 
first day of the qualifying emergency and ending on Sep-
tember 30 of the fiscal year following the end of the quali-
fying emergency. 
(c) REPORTS.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, and every 180 days there-
after for the duration of the period beginning on the first 
day of the qualifying emergency and ending on September 
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30 of the fiscal year following the end of the qualifying 
emergency, the Secretary shall submit to the authorizing 
committees (as defined in section 103 of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003)) a report that identi-
fies each institution of higher education or other grant re-
cipient that received a modification under this section. 
SEC. 100114. SERVICE OBLIGATIONS FOR TEACHERS. 
(a) TEACH GRANTS.—For the purposes of section 
420N of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070g–2), during a qualifying emergency, the Secretary— 
(1) may modify the categories of extenuating 
circumstances under which a recipient of a grant 
under subpart 9 of part A of title IV of such Act 
who is unable to fulfill all or part of the recipient’s 
service obligation may be excused from fulfilling that 
portion of the service obligation; and 
(2) shall consider teaching service that, as a re-
sult of a qualifying emergency, is part-time or tem-
porarily interrupted to be full-time service and to 
fulfill the service obligations under section 420N. 
(b) 
TEACHER
LOAN
FORGIVENESS.—Notwith-
standing section 428J or 460 of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078–10; 1087j), the Secretary shall 
waive the requirements under such sections that years of 
teaching service shall be consecutive if— 
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(1) the teaching service of a borrower is tempo-
rarily interrupted due to a qualifying emergency; 
and 
(2) after the temporary interruption due to a 
qualifying emergency, the borrower resumes teaching 
service and completes a total of five years of quali-
fying teaching service under such sections, including 
qualifying teaching service performed before, during, 
and after such qualifying emergency. 
SEC. 100115. PAYMENTS FOR STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS 
AS A RESULT OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. 
(a) PAYMENTS
FOR STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS 
DURING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Part G of title IV of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1088 et 
seq.) is amended by inserting after section 493D the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 493E. PAYMENTS FOR STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS 
DURING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) CORONAVIRUS.—The term ‘coronavirus’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 506 of the 
Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supple-
mental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116– 
123). 
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‘‘(2) INCOME-DRIVEN REPAYMENT.—The term 
‘income-driven repayment’ means— 
‘‘(A) income-based repayment authorized 
under section 493C for loans made, insured, or 
guaranteed under part B or part D; or 
‘‘(B) income contingent repayment author-
ized under section 455(e) for loans made under 
part D. 
‘‘(3) INVOLUNTARY
COLLECTION.—The term 
‘involuntary collection’ means— 
‘‘(A) a wage garnishment authorized under 
section 488A of this Act or section 3720D of 
title 31, United States Code; 
‘‘(B) a reduction of tax refund by amount 
of debt authorized under section 3720A of title 
31, United States Code; 
‘‘(C) a reduction of any other Federal ben-
efit payment by administrative offset authorized 
under section 3716 of title 31, United States 
Code (including a benefit payment due to an in-
dividual under the Social Security Act or any 
other 
provision 
described 
in 
subsection 
(c)(3)(A)(i) of such section); and 
‘‘(D) any other involuntary collection activ-
ity. 
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‘‘(4) NATIONAL
EMERGENCY.—The term ‘na-
tional emergency’ means— 
‘‘(A) a public health emergency related to 
the coronavirus that is declared by the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services pursuant 
to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 247d); or 
‘‘(B) a national emergency related to the 
coronavirus declared by the President under the 
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et 
seq.). 
‘‘(b) NATIONAL EMERGENCY STUDENT LOAN RE-
PAYMENT ASSISTANCE.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY.—Beginning on the date of 
enactment of the Take Responsibility for Workers 
and Families Act, in the event of a national emer-
gency, the Secretary shall, for each month during 
the national emergency period and for each borrower 
of a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part 
B, D, or E, pay the total amount due for such 
month on the loan, based on the payment plan se-
lected by the borrower or the borrower’s loan status. 
‘‘(2) NO CAPITALIZATION OF INTEREST.—With 
respect to any loan in repayment during a national 
emergency period, interest due on loans made, in-
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sured, or guaranteed under part B, D, or E during 
such period shall not be capitalized at any time dur-
ing the national emergency. 
‘‘(3) APPLICABILITY OF PAYMENTS.—Any pay-
ment made by the Secretary under this section shall 
be considered by the Secretary, or by a lender with 
respect to a loan made, insured, or guaranteed 
under part B— 
‘‘(A) as a qualifying payment under the 
public service loan forgiveness program under 
section 455(m), if the borrower would otherwise 
qualify under such section; 
‘‘(B) in the case of a borrower enrolled in 
an income-driven repayment plan, as a quali-
fying payment for the purpose of calculating eli-
gibility for loan forgiveness for the borrower in 
accordance with section 493C(b)(7) or section 
455(d)(1)(D), as the case may be; and 
‘‘(C) in the case of a borrower in default, 
as an on-time monthly payment for purposes of 
loan rehabilitation pursuant to section 428F(a). 
‘‘(4) REPORTING
TO
CONSUMER
REPORTING 
AGENCIES.—During the period in which the Sec-
retary is making payments on a loan under para-
graph (1), the Secretary shall ensure that, for the 
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purpose of reporting information about the loan to 
a consumer reporting agency, any payment made by 
the Secretary is treated as if it were a regularly 
scheduled payment made by a borrower. 
‘‘(5) NOTICE OF PAYMENTS AND PROGRAM.— 
Not later than 15 days following the date of enact-
ment of the COVID–19 Pandemic Education Relief 
Act of 2020, and monthly thereafter during the pe-
riod of a national emergency, the Secretary shall 
provide a notice to all borrowers of loans made, in-
sured, or guaranteed under part B, D, or E— 
‘‘(A) informing borrowers of the actions 
taken under this section; 
‘‘(B) providing borrowers with an easily 
accessible method to opt out of the benefits pro-
vided under this section; and 
‘‘(C) notifying the borrower that the pro-
gram under this section is a temporary program 
and will end after the national emergency ends. 
‘‘(6) SUSPENSION
OF
INVOLUNTARY
COLLEC-
TION.—Beginning on the date of enactment of the 
Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act, 
in the event of a national emergency, the Secretary, 
or other holder of a loan made, insured, or guaran-
teed under part B, D, or E, shall immediately take 
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action to halt all involuntary collection related to the 
loan until the date on which the national emergency 
ends. 
‘‘(c) WAIVER
OF
INTEREST
DURING
NATIONAL 
EMERGENCY.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary shall pay any interest that would other-
wise be charged or accrue during a national emergency 
on any loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B, 
D, or E. 
‘‘(d) TRANSITION PERIOD.—Upon the termination of 
a national emergency, the Secretary shall carry out a pro-
gram to provide for a transition period of 90 days, begin-
ning on the day after the last day of the national emer-
gency, during which— 
‘‘(1) the Secretary shall provide not less than 3 
notices to borrowers indicating when the borrower’s 
normal payment obligations will resume; and 
‘‘(2) any missed payments by a borrower under 
part B, D, or E shall not— 
‘‘(A) result in fees or penalties; or 
‘‘(B) be reported to any consumer report-
ing agency or otherwise impact the borrower’s 
credit history. 
‘‘(e) IMPLEMENTATION IN FFEL ENTITIES.—To fa-
cilitate implementation of this section— 
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‘‘(1) lenders and guaranty agencies holding 
loans made, insured, or guaranteed under part B 
shall report, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, in-
formation to verify at the borrower level the amount 
of payments made under this section; and 
‘‘(2) the Secretary shall have the authority to 
establish a payment schedule for purposes of this 
section for loans made, insured, or guaranteed under 
part B and not held by the Secretary. 
‘‘(f) WAIVERS.—In carrying out this section, the Sec-
retary may waive the application of— 
‘‘(1) subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, 
United States Code; 
‘‘(2) the master calendar requirements under 
section 482; 
‘‘(3) negotiated rulemaking under section 492; 
and 
‘‘(4) the requirement to publish the notices re-
lated to the system of records of the agency before 
implementation required under paragraphs (4) and 
(11) of section 552a(e) of title 5, United States 
Code (commonly known as the ‘Privacy Act of 
1974’), except that the notices shall be published not 
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
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the Take Responsibility for Workers and Families 
Act.’’. 
(2) FFEL AMENDMENT.—Section 428(c)(8) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1078(c)(8)) is amended by striking ‘‘and for which’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘this subsection’’. 
(3) APPLICABILITY.—The requirement of the 
Secretary to make payments under section 493E of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965, as added by 
paragraph 1, shall apply to payments due after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) MINIMUM RELIEF FOR STUDENT LOAN BOR-
ROWERS AS A RESULT OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.— 
Part G of title IV the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1088 et seq.), as amended by subsection (a), is 
further amended by inserting after section 493E the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘SEC. 493F. MINIMUM RELIEF FOR STUDENT LOAN BOR-
ROWERS AS A RESULT OF A NATIONAL EMER-
GENCY. 
‘‘(a) MINIMUM STUDENT LOAN RELIEF AS A RESULT 
OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.—Not later than 90 days 
after the conclusion of a national emergency (as defined 
in section 493E), the Secretary shall, for each borrower 
of a loan made under part B, D, or E, reduce the total 
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outstanding balance due on all such loans of the borrower, 
by an amount equal to the lesser of— 
‘‘(1) the difference between $10,000 and the 
total amount of payments made by the Secretary 
under section 493E(b) on such loans of the borrower 
during the period of such national emergency; or 
‘‘(2) the total amount of outstanding principal 
and interest due on such loans of the borrower, as 
of the date of the calculation under this subsection. 
‘‘(b) DATA TO IMPLEMENT.—Contractors of the Sec-
retary and lenders and guaranty agencies holding loans 
made, insured, or guaranteed under part B shall report, 
to the satisfaction of the Secretary, the information nec-
essary to calculate the amount to be applied under sub-
section (a).’’. 
SEC. 100116. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Except as otherwise provided in this Act or the 
amendments made by this Act, nothing in this Act shall 
be construed to provide additional authority to the Sec-
retary of Education to waive any provision of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.). 
(2) The Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.). 
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(3) The Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1001 et seq.). 
(4) The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.). 
TITLE II—OTHER PROGRAMS 
SEC. 100202. PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE CORPORATION 
FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. 
(a) ACCRUAL OF SERVICE HOURS.— 
(1) 
ACCRUAL
THROUGH
OTHER
SERVICE 
HOURS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of the Domestic Volunteer Serv-
ice Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4950 et seq.) or the 
National and Community Service Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.), the Corporation for 
National and Community Service shall allow an 
individual described in subparagraph (B) to ac-
crue other service hours that will count toward 
the number of hours needed for the individual’s 
education award. 
(B) AFFECTED
INDIVIDUALS.—Subpara-
graph (A) shall apply to any individual serving 
in a position eligible for an educational award 
under subtitle D of title I of the National and 
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Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
12601 et seq.)— 
(i) who is performing limited service 
due to COVID–19; or 
(ii) whose position has been suspended 
or placed on hold due to COVID–19. 
(2) PROVISIONS IN CASE OF EARLY EXIT.—In 
any case where an individual serving in a position el-
igible for an educational award under subtitle D of 
title I of the National and Community Service Act 
of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12601 et seq.) was required to 
exit the position early at the direction of the Cor-
poration for National and Community Service, the 
Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service may— 
(A) deem such individual as having met 
the requirements of the position; and 
(B) award the individual the full value of 
the educational award under such subtitle for 
which the individual would otherwise have been 
eligible. 
(b) NO REQUIRED RETURN OF GRANT FUNDS.— 
Notwithstanding section 129(l)(3)(A)(i) of the National 
and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
12581(l)(3)(A)(i)), the Chief Executive Officer of the Cor-
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poration for National and Community Service may permit 
fixed-amount grant recipients under such section 129(l) 
to maintain a pro rata amount of grant funds, at the dis-
cretion of the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, for participants who exited, were suspended, or 
are serving in a limited capacity due to COVID–19, to 
enable the grant recipients to maintain operations and to 
accept participants. 
(c) EXTENSION OF TERMS AND AGE LIMITS.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Corporation 
for National and Community Service may extend the term 
of service (for a period not to exceed the 1-year period 
immediately following the end of the national emergency) 
or waive any upper age limit (except in no case shall the 
maximum age exceed 26 years of age) for national service 
programs carried out by the National Civilian Community 
Corps under subtitle E of title I of the National and Com-
munity Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12611 et seq.), 
and the participants in such programs, for the purposes 
of— 
(1) addressing disruptions due to COVID–19; 
and 
(2) minimizing the difficulty in returning to full 
operation due to COVID–19 on such programs and 
participants. 
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DIVISION K—AGRICULTURE 
PROVISIONS 
TITLE I—COMMODITY SUPPORT 
AND 
OTHER 
AGRICULTURE 
PROGRAMS 
SEC. 110101. SUPPLEMENTAL DAIRY MARGIN COVERAGE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation, the Secretary of Agriculture shall pro-
vide supplemental dairy margin coverage payments to eli-
gible dairy operations described in subsection (b) whenever 
the average actual dairy production margin (as defined in 
section 1401 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 
9051)) for a month is less than the coverage level thresh-
old selected by such eligible dairy operation under such 
section 1406. 
(b) ELIGIBLE DAIRY OPERATION DESCRIBED.—An 
eligible dairy operation described in this subsection is a 
participating dairy operation (as defined in section 1401 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9051)) that— 
(1) is located in the United States; and 
(2) on the date of the enactment of this section, 
had a production history established under the dairy 
margin coverage program described in section 1405 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9055) of 
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less than 5 million pounds, as determined in accord-
ance with subsection (c) of that Act. 
(c) SUPPLEMENTAL PRODUCTION HISTORY CAL-
CULATION.—For purposes of determining the production 
history of an eligible dairy operation under this subsection, 
such an operation’s production history shall be equal to— 
(1) the production volume of such dairy oper-
ation for the 2019 milk marketing year; minus 
(2) the production history of such dairy oper-
ation established under section 1405 of the Agricul-
tural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9055). 
(d) COVERAGE PERCENTAGE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of calculating 
payments to be issued under this section, an eligible 
dairy operation’s coverage percentage shall be equal 
to the coverage percentage selected by such eligible 
dairy operation under section 1406 of the Agricul-
tural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9056). 
(2) 5-MILLION POUND LIMITATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall not 
provide supplemental dairy margin coverage on 
a dairy operation’s actual production for cal-
endar year 2019 such that the total covered 
production history of the operation exceeds 5 
million pounds. 
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(B) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT.—In cal-
culating the total covered production history of 
a dairy operation under subparagraph (A), the 
Secretary shall multiply the coverage percentage 
selected under section 1406 of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9056) by the sum of— 
(i) The supplemental production his-
tory calculated under subsection (c) with 
respect to such dairy operation; and 
(ii) The dairy margin coverage pro-
duction history described in subsection 
(c)(2) with respect to such dairy operation. 
(e) PREMIUM COST.—The premium cost for an eligi-
ble dairy operation under this section shall be equal to 
the product of multiplying— 
(1) the Tier I premium cost calculated under 
section 1407(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 
12 U.S.C. 9057(b)); by 
(2) the production history calculation deter-
mined under subsection (c) (such that total covered 
production history does not exceed 5 million 
pounds). 
(f) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 45 days after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
issue regulations to carry out this section. 
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(g) RETROACTIVITY.—The authority to carry out this 
section shall begin on January 1, 2020. 
SEC. 110102. TARGETED PURCHASES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
utilize not less than $300,000,000 of the funds available 
under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 
612c) to purchase qualified agricultural products for the 
purpose of donating the products to food assistance pro-
grams, including the Emergency Food Assistance Pro-
gram, of which the Secretary shall utilize— 
(1) not less than $150,000,000 to purchase spe-
cialty crops; 
(2) not less than $75,000,000 to purchase 
dairy; and 
(3) not less than $75,000,000 to purchase meat 
and poultry products. 
(b) QUALIFIED
AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCT
DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘qualified agricultural 
product’’ means a dairy, meat, or poultry product, or a 
specialty crop— 
(1) that was packaged or marketed for sale to 
commercial or food service industries; 
(2) for which decreased demand exists for such 
a product due to the COVID–19 outbreak; and 
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(3) the repurposing of which would be imprac-
tical for grocery or retail sale. 
TITLE II—SUPPLEMENTAL NU-
TRITION 
ASSISTANCE 
PRO-
GRAM 
SEC. 110201. SNAP FUNDING. 
There are hereby appropriated to the Secretary of 
Agriculture, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, such sums as maybe necessary to carry 
out this title and sections 2301 and 2302 of the Families 
First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law 116–127). 
SEC. 110202. SNAP ALLOTMENTS. 
(a) 
NUTRITION
ASSISTANCE
ALLOTMENT 
AMOUNT.— 
(1) VALUE
OF
BENEFITS.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, beginning on May 1, 
2020, the value of benefits determined under section 
8(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2017(a)), and consolidated block grants for 
Puerto Rico and American Samoa determined under 
section 19(a) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2028(a)), shall 
be calculated using 115 percent of the June 2019 
value of the thrifty food plan (as defined in section 
3 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2012)) if the value of the 
benefits and block grants would be greater under 
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that calculation than in the absence of this para-
graph. 
(2) MINIMUM AMOUNT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The minimum value of 
benefits determined under section 8(a) of the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2017(a)) for a household of not more than 2 
members shall be $30. 
(B) EFFECTIVENESS.—Subparagraph (A) 
shall remain in effect until the date on which 8 
percent of the value of the thrifty food plan for 
a household containing 1 member, rounded to 
the nearest whole dollar increment, is equal to 
or greater than $30. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SECRETARY.—In car-
rying out this section, the Secretary shall— 
(1) consider the benefit increases described in 
subsection (a) to be a ‘‘mass change’’; 
(2) require a simple process for States to notify 
households of the increase in benefits; 
(3) not include any errors in the implementa-
tion of this section in the payment error rate cal-
culated under section 16(c) of the Food and Nutri-
tion Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(c)); 
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(4) disregard the additional amount of benefits 
that a household receives as a result of this section 
in determining the amount of overissuances under 
section 13 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 
(7 U.S.C. 2022); and 
(5) set the tolerance level for excluding small 
errors for the purposes of section 16(c) of the Food 
and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(c)) at 
$50 through September 30, 2021. 
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For the costs of State ad-
ministrative expenses associated with carrying out 
this section and administering the supplemental nu-
trition assistance program established under the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et 
seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture shall make avail-
able $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 and 
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2021. 
(2) TIMING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020.—Not later 
than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this 
section, the Secretary shall make available to States 
amounts for fiscal year 2020 under paragraph (1). 
(3) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Funds described 
in paragraph (1) shall be made available as grants 
to State agencies for each fiscal year as follows: 
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(A) 75 percent of the amounts available 
for each fiscal year shall be allocated to States 
based on the share of each State of households 
that participate in the supplemental nutrition 
assistance program as reported to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the most recent 12- 
month period for which data are available, ad-
justed by the Secretary (as of the date of the 
enactment of this section) for participation in 
disaster programs under section 5(h) of the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(h)); and 
(B) 25 percent of the amounts available 
for each fiscal year shall be allocated to States 
based on the increase in the number of house-
holds that participate in the supplemental nu-
trition assistance program as reported to the 
Department of Agriculture over the most recent 
12-month period for which data are available, 
adjusted by the Secretary (as of the date of the 
enactment of this section) for participation in 
disaster programs under section 5(h) of the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(h)). 
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SEC. 110203. SNAP RULES. 
No funds (including fees) made available under this 
Act or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to 
finalize, implement, administer, enforce, carry out, or oth-
erwise give effect to— 
(1) the final rule entitled ‘‘Supplemental Nutri-
tion Assistance Program: Requirements for Able- 
Bodied Adults Without Dependents’’ published in 
the Federal Register on December 5, 2019 (84 Fed. 
Reg. 66782); 
(2) the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Revision of Cat-
egorical Eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program (SNAP)’’ published in the Fed-
eral Register on July 24, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 
35570); or 
(3) the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Supplemental 
Nutrition Assistance Program: Standardization of 
State Heating and Cooling Standard Utility Allow-
ances’’ published in the Federal Register on October 
3, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 52809). 
SEC. 110204. SNAP HOT FOOD PURCHASES. 
During the period beginning 10 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and ending on the termi-
nation date of the public health emergency declaration 
made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act based 
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on an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19), 
the term ‘‘food’’, as defined in section 3 of the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012), shall be deemed 
to exclude ‘‘hot foods or hot food products ready for imme-
diate consumption other than those authorized pursuant 
to clauses (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this sub-
section,’’ for purposes of such Act, except that such exclu-
sion is limited to retail food stores authorized to accept 
and redeem supplemental nutrition assistance program 
benefits as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 110205. FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ON INDIAN 
RESERVATIONS. 
Any funds provided in the Third Coronavirus Pre-
paredness and Response Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 2020 for the Food Distribution Program on Indian 
Reservations, as authorized by section 4(b) of the Food 
and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2013(b)), are not 
subject to the payment of the non-Federal share require-
ment described in section 4(b)(4)(A) of the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2013(b)(4)(A)). 
DIVISION L—ACCESS ACT 
SEC. 120001. SHORT TITLE. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘American 
Coronavirus/COVID–19 Election Safety and Security 
Act’’ or the ‘‘ACCESS Act’’. 
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SEC. 120002. REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL ELECTION 
CONTINGENCY PLANS IN RESPONSE TO NAT-
URAL DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, each 
State and each jurisdiction in a State which is re-
sponsible for administering elections for Federal of-
fice shall establish and make publicly available a 
contingency plan to enable individuals to vote in 
elections for Federal office during a state of emer-
gency, public health emergency, or national emer-
gency which has been declared for reasons includ-
ing— 
(A) a natural disaster; or 
(B) an infectious disease. 
(2) UPDATING.—Each State and jurisdiction 
shall update the contingency plan established under 
this subsection not less frequently than every 5 
years. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS RELATING
TO SAFETY.—The 
contingency plan established under subsection (a) shall in-
clude initiatives to provide equipment and resources need-
ed to protect the health and safety of poll workers and 
voters when voting in person. 
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(c) REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO RECRUITMENT OF 
POLL
WORKERS.—The contingency plan established 
under subsection (a) shall include initiatives by the chief 
State election official and local election officials to recruit 
poll workers from resilient or unaffected populations, 
which may include— 
(1) employees of other State and local govern-
ment offices; and 
(2) in the case in which an infectious disease 
poses significant increased health risks to elderly in-
dividuals, students of secondary schools and institu-
tions of higher education in the State. 
(d) STATE.—For purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘State’’ includes the District of Columbia, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
(e) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The Attorney Gen-
eral may bring a civil action against any State or ju-
risdiction in an appropriate United States District 
Court for such declaratory and injunctive relief (in-
cluding a temporary restraining order, a permanent 
or temporary injunction, or other order) as may be 
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necessary to carry out the requirements of this sec-
tion. 
(2) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a viola-
tion of this section, any person who is aggrieved 
by such violation may provide written notice of 
the violation to the chief election official of the 
State involved. 
(B) RELIEF.—If the violation is not cor-
rected within 20 days after receipt of a notice 
under subparagraph (A), or within 5 days after 
receipt of the notice if the violation occurred 
within 120 days before the date of an election 
for Federal office, the aggrieved person may, in 
a civil action, obtain declaratory or injunctive 
relief with respect to the violation. 
(C) SPECIAL RULE.—If the violation oc-
curred within 5 days before the date of an elec-
tion for Federal office, the aggrieved person 
need not provide notice to the chief election of-
ficial of the State involved under subparagraph 
(A) before bringing a civil action under sub-
paragraph (B). 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 
respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Fed-
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eral office held in November 2020 and each succeeding 
election for Federal office. 
SEC. 120003. EARLY VOTING AND VOTING BY MAIL. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—Title III of the Help America 
Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subtitle: 
‘‘Subtitle C—Other Requirements 
‘‘SEC. 321. EARLY VOTING. 
‘‘(a) REQUIRING ALLOWING VOTING PRIOR TO DATE 
OF ELECTION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall allow indi-
viduals to vote in an election for Federal office dur-
ing an early voting period which occurs prior to the 
date of the election, in the same manner as voting 
is allowed on such date. 
‘‘(2) LENGTH
OF
PERIOD.—The early voting 
period required under this subsection with respect to 
an election shall consist of a period of consecutive 
days (including weekends) which begins on the 15th 
day before the date of the election (or, at the option 
of the State, on a day prior to the 15th day before 
the date of the election) and ends on the date of the 
election. 
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‘‘(b) MINIMUM EARLY VOTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
Each polling place which allows voting during an early vot-
ing period under subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) allow such voting for no less than 10 hours 
on each day; 
‘‘(2) have uniform hours each day for which 
such voting occurs; and 
‘‘(3) allow such voting to be held for some pe-
riod of time prior to 9:00 a.m (local time) and some 
period of time after 5:00 p.m. (local time). 
‘‘(c) LOCATION OF POLLING PLACES.— 
‘‘(1) 
PROXIMITY
TO
PUBLIC
TRANSPOR-
TATION.—To the greatest extent practicable, a State 
shall ensure that each polling place which allows vot-
ing during an early voting period under subsection 
(a) is located within walking distance of a stop on 
a public transportation route. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY
IN
RURAL
AREAS.—The 
State shall ensure that polling places which allow 
voting during an early voting period under sub-
section (a) will be located in rural areas of the State, 
and shall ensure that such polling places are located 
in communities which will provide the greatest op-
portunity for residents of rural areas to vote during 
the early voting period. 
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‘‘(d) STANDARDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall issue 
standards for the administration of voting prior to 
the day scheduled for a Federal election. Such 
standards shall include the nondiscriminatory geo-
graphic placement of polling places at which such 
voting occurs. 
‘‘(2) DEVIATION.—The standards described in 
paragraph (1) shall permit States, upon providing 
adequate public notice, to deviate from any require-
ment in the case of unforeseen circumstances such 
as a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or a change 
in voter turnout. 
‘‘(e) BALLOT PROCESSING AND SCANNING REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The State shall begin proc-
essing and scanning ballots cast during early voting 
for tabulation at least 14 days prior to the date of 
the election involved. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this subsection 
shall be construed to permit a State to tabulate bal-
lots in an election before the closing of the polls on 
the date of the election. 
‘‘(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 
with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for 
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Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding 
election for Federal office. 
‘‘SEC. 322. PROMOTING ABILITY OF VOTERS TO VOTE BY 
MAIL. 
‘‘(a) UNIFORM AVAILABILITY OF ABSENTEE VOTING 
TO ALL VOTERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If an individual in a State 
is eligible to cast a vote in an election for Federal 
office, the State may not impose any additional con-
ditions or requirements on the eligibility of the indi-
vidual to cast the vote in such election by absentee 
ballot by mail, including— 
‘‘(A) requiring any form of identification 
as a condition of obtaining the absentee ballot; 
or 
‘‘(B) requiring notarization or witness sig-
nature or other formal authentication (other 
than voter attestation) as a condition of the ac-
ceptance of the ballot by an election official. 
‘‘(2) PERMITTING CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.— 
Notwithstanding paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) a State shall require an individual to 
meet signature verification in accordance with 
subsection (b); and 
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‘‘(B) the State may impose a deadline for 
requesting the ballot and related voting mate-
rials from the appropriate State or local elec-
tion official and for returning the ballot to the 
appropriate State or local election official. 
‘‘(b) REQUIRING SIGNATURE VERIFICATION.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—A State may not accept 
and process an absentee ballot submitted by any in-
dividual with respect to an election for Federal office 
unless the State verifies the identification of the in-
dividual by comparing the individual’s signature on 
the absentee ballot with the individual’s signature on 
the official list of registered voters in the State, in 
accordance with such procedures as the State may 
adopt (subject to the requirements of paragraph 
(2)). 
‘‘(2) DUE PROCESS REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) NOTICE AND OPPORTUNITY TO CURE 
DISCREPANCY.—If an individual submits an ab-
sentee ballot and the appropriate State or local 
election official determines that a discrepancy 
exists between the signature on such ballot and 
the signature of such individual on the official 
list of registered voters in the State, such elec-
tion official, prior to making a final determina-
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tion as to the validity of such ballot, shall make 
a good faith effort to immediately notify such 
individual by mail, telephone, and (if available) 
electronic mail that— 
‘‘(i) a discrepancy exists between the 
signature on such ballot and the signature 
of such individual on the official list of reg-
istered voters in the State; 
‘‘(ii) such individual may provide the 
official with information to cure such dis-
crepancy, either in person, by telephone, or 
by electronic methods; and 
‘‘(iii) if such discrepancy is not cured 
prior to the expiration of the 7-day period 
which begins on the date of the election, 
such ballot will not be counted. 
‘‘(B) OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE MISSING 
SIGNATURE.—If an individual submits an ab-
sentee ballot without a signature, the State 
shall notify the individual and give the indi-
vidual an opportunity to provide the missing 
signature on a form proscribed by the State. 
‘‘(C) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—An election 
official may not make a determination that a 
discrepancy exists between the signature on an 
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absentee ballot and the signature of the indi-
vidual who submits the ballot on the official list 
of registered voters in the State unless— 
‘‘(i) at least 2 election officials make 
the determination; and 
‘‘(ii) each official who makes the de-
termination has received training in proce-
dures used to verify signatures. 
‘‘(3) REPORT.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 
days after the end of a Federal election cycle, 
each chief State election official shall submit to 
Congress a report containing the following in-
formation for the applicable Federal election 
cycle in the State: 
‘‘(i) The number of ballots invalidated 
due to a discrepancy under this subsection. 
‘‘(ii) Description of attempts to con-
tact voters to provide notice as required by 
this subsection. 
‘‘(iii) Description of the cure process 
developed by such State pursuant to this 
subsection, including the number of ballots 
determined valid as a result of such proc-
ess. 
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‘‘(B) FEDERAL
ELECTION
CYCLE
DE-
FINED.—For purposes of this subsection, the 
term ‘Federal election cycle’ means the period 
beginning on January 1 of any odd numbered 
year and ending on December 31 of the fol-
lowing year. 
‘‘(c) METHODS AND TIMING FOR TRANSMISSION OF 
BALLOTS AND BALLOTING MATERIALS TO VOTERS.— 
‘‘(1) METHOD FOR REQUESTING BALLOT.—In 
addition to such other methods as the State may es-
tablish for an individual to request an absentee bal-
lot, the State shall permit an individual to submit a 
request for an absentee ballot online. The State shall 
be considered to meet the requirements of this para-
graph if the website of the appropriate State or local 
election official allows an absentee ballot request ap-
plication to be completed and submitted online and 
if the website permits the individual— 
‘‘(A) to print the application so that the 
individual may complete the application and re-
turn it to the official; or 
‘‘(B) request that a paper copy of the ap-
plication be transmitted to the individual by 
mail or electronic mail so that the individual 
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may complete the application and return it to 
the official. 
‘‘(2) ENSURING
DELIVERY
PRIOR
TO
ELEC-
TION.—If an individual requests to vote by absentee 
ballot in an election for Federal office, the appro-
priate State or local election official shall ensure 
that the ballot and relating voting materials are re-
ceived by the individual prior to the date of the elec-
tion so long as the individual’s request is received by 
the official not later than 5 days (excluding Satur-
days, Sundays, and legal public holidays) before the 
date of the election, except that nothing in this para-
graph shall preclude a State or local jurisdiction 
from allowing for the acceptance and processing of 
ballot requests submitted or received after such re-
quired period. 
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULES IN CASE OF EMERGENCY 
PERIODS.— 
‘‘(A) AUTOMATIC MAILING OF ABSENTEE 
BALLOTS TO ALL VOTERS.—If the area in which 
an election is held is in an area in which an 
emergency or disaster which is described in sub-
paragraph (A) or (B) of section 1135(g)(1) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b– 
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5(g)(1)) is declared during the period described 
in subparagraph (C)— 
‘‘(i) paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not 
apply with respect to the election; and 
‘‘(ii) not later than 2 weeks before the 
date of the election, the appropriate State 
or local election official shall transmit ab-
sentee ballots and balloting materials for 
the election to all individuals who are reg-
istered to vote in such election. 
‘‘(B) AFFIRMATION.—If an individual re-
ceives an absentee ballot from a State or local 
election official pursuant to subparagraph (A) 
and returns the voted ballot to the official, the 
ballot shall not be counted in the election unless 
the individual includes with the ballot a signed 
affirmation that— 
‘‘(i) the individual has not and will 
not cast another ballot with respect to the 
election; and 
‘‘(ii) acknowledges that a material 
misstatement of fact in completing the bal-
lot may constitute grounds for conviction 
of perjury. 
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‘‘(C) PERIOD DESCRIBED.—The period de-
scribed in this subparagraph with respect to an 
election is the period which begins 120 days be-
fore the date of the election and ends 30 days 
before the date of the election. 
‘‘(D) APPLICATION
TO
NOVEMBER
2020 
GENERAL
ELECTION.—Because of the public 
health emergency declared pursuant to section 
319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d) resulting from the COVID–19 
pandemic, the special rules set forth in this 
paragraph shall apply with respect to the regu-
larly scheduled general election for Federal of-
fice held in November 2020 in each State. 
‘‘(d) ACCESSIBILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DIS-
ABILITIES.—The State shall ensure that all absentee bal-
lots and related voting materials in elections for Federal 
office are accessible to individuals with disabilities in a 
manner that provides the same opportunity for access and 
participation (including with privacy and independence) as 
for other voters. 
‘‘(e) REQUIREMENTS FOR ENVELOPES.— 
‘‘(1) PREPAYMENT
OF
POSTAGE.—Consistent 
with regulations of the United States Postal Service, 
the State or the unit of local government responsible 
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for the administration of an election for Federal of-
fice shall prepay the postage on any ballot in the 
election which is cast by mail. 
‘‘(2) USE OF SELF-SEALING ENVELOPE.—The 
State or unit of local government shall provide with 
any absentee ballot transmitted to a voter by mail 
a self-sealing return envelope. 
‘‘(f) UNIFORM DEADLINE
FOR ACCEPTANCE
OF 
MAILED BALLOTS.—If a ballot submitted by an individual 
by mail with respect to an election for Federal office in 
a State is postmarked on or before the date of the election, 
the State may not refuse to accept or process the ballot 
on the grounds that the individual did not meet a deadline 
for returning the ballot to the appropriate State or local 
election official. 
‘‘(g) METHODS OF RETURNING BALLOTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The State shall permit an 
individual to whom a ballot in an election was pro-
vided under this section to cast the ballot by deliv-
ering the ballot at such times and to such locations 
as the State may establish, including— 
‘‘(A) permitting the individual to deliver 
the ballot to a polling place on the date of the 
election; and 
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‘‘(B) permitting the individual to deliver 
the ballot to a designated ballot drop-off loca-
tion. 
‘‘(2) PERMITTING
VOTERS
TO
DESIGNATE 
OTHER PERSON TO RETURN BALLOT.—The State— 
‘‘(A) shall permit a voter to designate any 
person to return a voted and sealed absentee 
ballot to the post office, a ballot drop-off loca-
tion, tribally designated building, or election of-
fice so long as the person designated to return 
the ballot does not receive any form of com-
pensation based on the number of ballots that 
the person has returned and no individual, 
group, or organization provides compensation 
on this basis; and 
‘‘(B) may not put any limit on how many 
voted and sealed absentee ballots any des-
ignated person can return to the post office, a 
ballot drop off location, tribally designated 
building, or election office. 
‘‘(h) BALLOT PROCESSING AND SCANNING REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The State shall begin proc-
essing and scanning ballots cast by mail for tabula-
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tion at least 14 days prior to the date of the election 
involved. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this subsection 
shall be construed to permit a State to tabulate bal-
lots in an election before the closing of the polls on 
the date of the election. 
‘‘(i) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to affect the authority of States 
to conduct elections for Federal office through the use of 
polling places at which individuals cast ballots. 
‘‘(j) NO EFFECT ON BALLOTS SUBMITTED BY AB-
SENT MILITARY AND OVERSEAS VOTERS; TREATMENT OF 
BLANK ABSENTEE BALLOTS TRANSMITTED TO CERTAIN 
VOTERS.—Nothing in this section may be construed to af-
fect the treatment of any ballot submitted by an individual 
who is entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the Uni-
formed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (52 
U.S.C. 20301 et seq.), and any blank absentee ballot 
transmitted to an individual by mail or electronically in 
accordance with section 102(f) of such Act shall be treated 
in the same manner as any other absentee ballot for pur-
poses of this section. 
‘‘(k) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 
with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for 
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Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding 
election for Federal office. 
‘‘SEC. 323. ABSENTEE BALLOT TRACKING PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—Each State shall carry out a 
program to track and confirm the receipt of absentee bal-
lots in an election for Federal office under which the State 
or local election official responsible for the receipt of voted 
absentee ballots in the election carries out procedures to 
track and confirm the receipt of such ballots, and makes 
information on the receipt of such ballots available to the 
individual who cast the ballot, by means of online access 
using the Internet site of the official’s office. 
‘‘(b) INFORMATION
ON
WHETHER
VOTE
WAS 
COUNTED.—The information referred to under subsection 
(a) with respect to the receipt of an absentee ballot shall 
include information regarding whether the vote cast on the 
ballot was counted, and, in the case of a vote which was 
not counted, the reasons therefor. 
‘‘(c) USE OF TOLL-FREE TELEPHONE NUMBER BY 
OFFICIALS WITHOUT INTERNET SITE.—A program estab-
lished by a State or local election official whose office does 
not have an Internet site may meet the requirements of 
subsection (a) if the official has established a toll-free tele-
phone number that may be used by an individual who cast 
an absentee ballot to obtain the information on the receipt 
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of the voted absentee ballot as provided under such sub-
section. 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 
with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for 
Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding 
election for Federal office. 
‘‘SEC. 324. RULES FOR COUNTING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. 
‘‘(a) STATEWIDE COUNTING OF PROVISIONAL BAL-
LOTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—For purposes of section 
302(a)(4), notwithstanding the precinct or polling 
place at which a provisional ballot is cast within the 
State, the appropriate election official shall count 
each vote on such ballot for each election in which 
the individual who cast such ballot is eligible to vote. 
‘‘(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This subsection shall 
apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general 
election for Federal office held in November 2020 
and each succeeding election for Federal office. 
‘‘(b) UNIFORM
AND NONDISCRIMINATORY STAND-
ARDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Consistent with the re-
quirements of section 302, each State shall establish 
uniform and nondiscriminatory standards for the 
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issuance, handling, and counting of provisional bal-
lots. 
‘‘(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This subsection shall 
apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general 
election for Federal office held in November 2020 
and each succeeding election for Federal office. 
‘‘SEC. 325. COVERAGE OF COMMONWEALTH OF NORTHERN 
MARIANA ISLANDS. 
‘‘In this subtitle, the term ‘State’ includes the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘SEC. 326. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPANDING 
ABILITY OF INDIVIDUALS TO VOTE. 
‘‘The requirements of this subtitle are minimum re-
quirements, and nothing in this subtitle may be construed 
to prevent a State from establishing standards which pro-
mote the ability of individuals to vote in elections for Fed-
eral office, so long as such standards are not inconsistent 
with the requirements of this subtitle or other Federal 
laws.’’. 
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT
RELATING
TO 
ISSUANCE OF VOLUNTARY GUIDANCE BY ELECTION AS-
SISTANCE COMMISSION.—Section 311(b) of such Act (52 
U.S.C. 21101(b)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(2); 
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(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (3) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4) in the case of the recommendations with 
respect to subtitle C, June 30, 2020.’’. 
(c) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) COVERAGE
UNDER
EXISTING
ENFORCE-
MENT PROVISIONS.—Section 401 of such Act (52 
U.S.C. 21111) is amended by striking ‘‘and 303’’ 
and inserting ‘‘303, and subtitle C of title III’’. 
(2) AVAILABILITY OF PRIVATE RIGHT OF AC-
TION.—Title IV of such (52 U.S.C. 21111 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section: 
‘‘SEC. 403. PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF 
CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a violation of sub-
title C of title III, section 402 shall not apply and any 
person who is aggrieved by such violation may provide 
written notice of the violation to the chief election official 
of the State involved. 
‘‘(b) RELIEF.—If the violation is not corrected within 
20 days after receipt of a notice under subsection (a), or 
within 5 days after receipt of the notice if the violation 
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occurred within 120 days before the date of an election 
for Federal office, the aggrieved person may, in a civil ac-
tion, obtain declaratory or injunctive relief with respect 
to the violation. 
‘‘(c) SPECIAL RULE.—If the violation occurred within 
5 days before the date of an election for Federal office, 
the aggrieved person need not provide notice to the chief 
election official of the State involved under subsection (a) 
before bringing a civil action under subsection (b).’’. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended— 
(1) by adding at the end of the items relating 
to title III the following: 
‘‘Subtitle C—Other Requirements 
‘‘Sec. 321. Early voting. 
‘‘Sec. 322. Promoting ability of voters to vote by mail. 
‘‘Sec. 323. Absentee ballot tracking program. 
‘‘Sec. 324. Rules for counting provisional ballots. 
‘‘Sec. 325. Coverage of Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘Sec. 326. Minimum requirements for expanding ability of individuals to vote.’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end of the items relating 
to title IV the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 403. Private right of action for violations of certain requirements.’’. 
SEC. 120004. POSTAGE-FREE ABSENTEE BALLOTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 34 of title 39, United 
States Code, is amended by adding after section 3406 the 
following: 
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‘‘§ 3407. Absentee ballots 
‘‘(a) Any absentee ballot for any election for Federal 
office shall be carried expeditiously, with postage prepaid 
by the State or unit of local government responsible for 
the administration of the election. 
‘‘(b) As used in this section, the term ‘absentee ballot’ 
means any ballot transmitted by a voter by mail in an 
election for Federal office, but does not include any ballot 
covered by section 3406.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 34 of such title is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 3406 the following: 
‘‘3407. Absentee ballots carried free of postage.’’. 
SEC. 120005. REQUIRING TRANSMISSION OF BLANK ABSEN-
TEE BALLOTS UNDER UOCAVA TO CERTAIN 
VOTERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Uniformed and Overseas 
Citizens Absentee Voting Act (52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.) 
is amended by inserting after section 103B the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 103C. TRANSMISSION OF BLANK ABSENTEE BALLOTS 
TO CERTAIN OTHER VOTERS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) STATE
RESPONSIBILITIES.—Subject to 
paragraph (2), each State shall transmit blank ab-
sentee ballots by mail and electronically to qualified 
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individuals in the same manner and under the same 
terms and conditions under which the State trans-
mits such ballots to absent uniformed services voters 
and overseas voters under section 102(f). 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Any blank absentee bal-
lot transmitted to a qualified individual under this 
section— 
‘‘(A) must comply with the language re-
quirements under section 203 of the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10503); and 
‘‘(B) must comply with the disability re-
quirements under section 508 of the Rehabilita-
tion Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794d). 
‘‘(3) AFFIRMATION.—The State may not trans-
mit a ballot to a qualified individual under this sec-
tion unless the individual provides the State with a 
signed affirmation in electronic form that— 
‘‘(A) the individual is a qualified individual 
(as defined in subsection (b)); 
‘‘(B) the individual has not and will not 
cast another ballot with respect to the election; 
and 
‘‘(C) 
acknowledges 
that 
a 
material 
misstatement of fact in completing the ballot 
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may constitute grounds for conviction of per-
jury. 
‘‘(4) CLARIFICATION REGARDING FREE POST-
AGE.—An absentee ballot obtained by a qualified in-
dividual under this section shall be considered bal-
loting materials as defined in section 107 for pur-
poses of section 3406 of title 39, United States 
Code. 
‘‘(5) PROHIBITING REFUSAL TO ACCEPT BAL-
LOT
FOR
FAILURE
TO
MEET
CERTAIN
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—A State shall not refuse to accept and 
process any otherwise valid blank absentee ballot 
which was transmitted to a qualified individual 
under this section and used by the individual to vote 
in the election solely on the basis of the following: 
‘‘(A) Notarization or witness signature re-
quirements. 
‘‘(B) Restrictions on paper type, including 
weight and size. 
‘‘(C) Restrictions on envelope type, includ-
ing weight and size. 
‘‘(b) QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In this section, except as 
provided in paragraph (2), the term ‘qualified indi-
vidual’ means any individual who is otherwise quali-
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fied to vote in an election for Federal office and who 
meets any of the following requirements: 
‘‘(A) The individual— 
‘‘(i) has requested an absentee ballot 
from the State or jurisdiction in which 
such individual is registered to vote; and 
‘‘(ii) has not received such absentee 
ballot at least 2 days before the date of the 
election. 
‘‘(B) The individual— 
‘‘(i) resides in an area of a State with 
respect to which an emergency or public 
health emergency has been declared by the 
chief executive of the State or of the area 
involved within 5 days of the date of the 
election under the laws of the State due to 
reasons including a natural disaster, in-
cluding severe weather, or an infectious 
disease; and 
‘‘(ii) has not requested an absentee 
ballot. 
‘‘(C) The individual expects to be absent 
from such individual’s jurisdiction on the date 
of the election due to professional or volunteer 
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service in response to a natural disaster or 
emergency as described in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(D) The individual is hospitalized or ex-
pects to be hospitalized on the date of the elec-
tion. 
‘‘(E) The individual is an individual with a 
disability (as defined in section 3 of the Ameri-
cans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
12102)) and resides in a State which does not 
offer voters the ability to use secure and acces-
sible remote ballot marking. For purposes of 
this subparagraph, a State shall permit an indi-
vidual to self-certify that the individual is an in-
dividual with a disability. 
‘‘(2) EXCLUSION OF ABSENT UNIFORMED SERV-
ICES AND OVERSEAS VOTERS.—The term ‘qualified 
individual’ shall not include an absent uniformed 
services voter or an overseas voter. 
‘‘(c) STATE.—For purposes of this section, the term 
‘State’ includes the District of Columbia, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 
with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for 
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Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding 
election for Federal office.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 102(a) of 
such Act (52 U.S.C. 20302(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(10); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (11) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(12) meet the requirements of section 103C 
with respect to the provision of blank absentee bal-
lots for the use of qualified individuals described in 
such section.’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended by inserting the following after 
section 103: 
‘‘Sec. 103A. Procedures for collection and delivery of marked absentee ballots 
of absent overseas uniformed services voters. 
‘‘Sec. 103B. Federal voting assistance program improvements. 
‘‘Sec. 103C. Transmission of blank absentee ballots to certain other voters.’’. 
SEC. 120006. VOTER REGISTRATION. 
(a) REQUIRING AVAILABILITY
OF INTERNET
FOR 
VOTER REGISTRATION.— 
(1) REQUIRING
AVAILABILITY
OF
INTERNET 
FOR REGISTRATION.—The National Voter Registra-
tion Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20501 et seq.) is 
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amended by inserting after section 6 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 6A. INTERNET REGISTRATION. 
‘‘(a) REQUIRING AVAILABILITY OF INTERNET FOR 
ONLINE REGISTRATION.— 
‘‘(1) AVAILABILITY OF ONLINE REGISTRATION 
AND CORRECTION OF EXISTING REGISTRATION IN-
FORMATION.—Each State, acting through the chief 
State election official, shall ensure that the following 
services are available to the public at any time on 
the official public websites of the appropriate State 
and local election officials in the State, in the same 
manner and subject to the same terms and condi-
tions as the services provided by voter registration 
agencies under section 7(a): 
‘‘(A) Online application for voter registra-
tion. 
‘‘(B) Online assistance to applicants in ap-
plying to register to vote. 
‘‘(C) Online completion and submission by 
applicants of the mail voter registration applica-
tion form prescribed by the Election Assistance 
Commission pursuant to section 9(a)(2), includ-
ing assistance with providing a signature as re-
quired under subsection (c). 
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‘‘(D) Online receipt of completed voter reg-
istration applications. 
‘‘(b) ACCEPTANCE OF COMPLETED APPLICATIONS.— 
A State shall accept an online voter registration applica-
tion provided by an individual under this section, and en-
sure that the individual is registered to vote in the State, 
if— 
‘‘(1) the individual meets the same voter reg-
istration requirements applicable to individuals who 
register to vote by mail in accordance with section 
6(a)(1) using the mail voter registration application 
form prescribed by the Election Assistance Commis-
sion pursuant to section 9(a)(2); and 
‘‘(2) the individual meets the requirements of 
subsection (c) to provide a signature in electronic 
form (but only in the case of applications submitted 
during or after the second year in which this section 
is in effect in the State). 
‘‘(c) SIGNATURE REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, an individual meets the requirements of this 
subsection as follows: 
‘‘(A) In the case of an individual who has 
a signature on file with a State agency, includ-
ing the State motor vehicle authority, that is 
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required to provide voter registration services 
under this Act or any other law, the individual 
consents to the transfer of that electronic signa-
ture. 
‘‘(B) If subparagraph (A) does not apply, 
the individual submits with the application an 
electronic copy of the individual’s handwritten 
signature through electronic means. 
‘‘(C) If subparagraph (A) and subpara-
graph (B) do not apply, the individual executes 
a computerized mark in the signature field on 
an online voter registration application, in ac-
cordance with reasonable security measures es-
tablished by the State, but only if the State ac-
cepts such mark from the individual. 
‘‘(2) TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS UNABLE TO 
MEET REQUIREMENT.—If an individual is unable to 
meet the requirements of paragraph (1), the State 
shall— 
‘‘(A) permit the individual to complete all 
other elements of the online voter registration 
application; 
‘‘(B) permit the individual to provide a sig-
nature at the time the individual requests a bal-
lot in an election (whether the individual re-
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quests the ballot at a polling place or requests 
the ballot by mail); and 
‘‘(C) if the individual carries out the steps 
described in subparagraph (A) and subpara-
graph (B), ensure that the individual is reg-
istered to vote in the State. 
‘‘(3) NOTICE.—The State shall ensure that in-
dividuals applying to register to vote online are noti-
fied of the requirements of paragraph (1) and of the 
treatment of individuals unable to meet such re-
quirements, as described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(d) CONFIRMATION AND DISPOSITION.— 
‘‘(1) CONFIRMATION OF RECEIPT.—Upon the 
online submission of a completed voter registration 
application by an individual under this section, the 
appropriate State or local election official shall send 
the individual a notice confirming the State’s receipt 
of the application and providing instructions on how 
the individual may check the status of the applica-
tion. 
‘‘(2) NOTICE OF DISPOSITION.—Not later than 
7 days after the appropriate State or local election 
official has approved or rejected an application sub-
mitted by an individual under this section, the offi-
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cial shall send the individual a notice of the disposi-
tion of the application. 
‘‘(3) METHOD OF NOTIFICATION.—The appro-
priate State or local election official shall send the 
notices required under this subsection by regular 
mail, and, in the case of an individual who has pro-
vided the official with an electronic mail address, by 
both electronic mail and regular mail. 
‘‘(e) PROVISION
OF SERVICES
IN NONPARTISAN 
MANNER.—The services made available under subsection 
(a) shall be provided in a manner that ensures that, con-
sistent with section 7(a)(5)— 
‘‘(1) the online application does not seek to in-
fluence an applicant’s political preference or party 
registration; and 
‘‘(2) there is no display on the website pro-
moting any political preference or party allegiance, 
except that nothing in this paragraph may be con-
strued to prohibit an applicant from registering to 
vote as a member of a political party. 
‘‘(f) PROTECTION OF SECURITY OF INFORMATION.— 
In meeting the requirements of this section, the State shall 
establish appropriate technological security measures to 
prevent to the greatest extent practicable any unauthor-
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ized access to information provided by individuals using 
the services made available under subsection (a). 
‘‘(g) ACCESSIBILITY OF SERVICES.—A state shall en-
sure that the services made available under this section 
are made available to individuals with disabilities to the 
same extent as services are made available to all other in-
dividuals. 
‘‘(h) USE OF ADDITIONAL TELEPHONE-BASED SYS-
TEM.—A State shall make the services made available on-
line under subsection (a) available through the use of an 
automated telephone-based system, subject to the same 
terms and conditions applicable under this section to the 
services made available online, in addition to making the 
services available online in accordance with the require-
ments of this section. 
‘‘(i) NONDISCRIMINATION AMONG REGISTERED VOT-
ERS USING MAIL AND ONLINE REGISTRATION.—In car-
rying out this Act, the Help America Vote Act of 2002, 
or any other Federal, State, or local law governing the 
treatment of registered voters in the State or the adminis-
tration of elections for public office in the State, a State 
shall treat a registered voter who registered to vote online 
in accordance with this section in the same manner as the 
State treats a registered voter who registered to vote by 
mail.’’. 
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(2) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS 
USING ONLINE REGISTRATION.— 
(A) TREATMENT
AS
INDIVIDUALS
REG-
ISTERING TO VOTE BY MAIL FOR PURPOSES OF 
FIRST-TIME VOTER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Section 303(b)(1)(A) of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 
21083(b)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘by 
mail’’ and inserting ‘‘by mail or online under 
section 6A of the National Voter Registration 
Act of 1993’’. 
(B) REQUIRING
SIGNATURE
FOR
FIRST- 
TIME
VOTERS
IN
JURISDICTION.—Section 
303(b) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21083(b)) is 
amended— 
(i) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (6); and 
(ii) by inserting after paragraph (4) 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) SIGNATURE
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
FIRST- 
TIME VOTERS USING ONLINE REGISTRATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A State shall, in a 
uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, require 
an individual to meet the requirements of sub-
paragraph (B) if— 
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‘‘(i) the individual registered to vote 
in the State online under section 6A of the 
National Voter Registration Act of 1993; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the individual has not previously 
voted in an election for Federal office in 
the State. 
‘‘(B) 
REQUIREMENTS.—An 
individual 
meets the requirements of this subparagraph 
if— 
‘‘(i) in the case of an individual who 
votes in person, the individual provides the 
appropriate State or local election official 
with a handwritten signature; or 
‘‘(ii) in the case of an individual who 
votes by mail, the individual submits with 
the ballot a handwritten signature. 
‘‘(C) 
INAPPLICABILITY.—Subparagraph 
(A) does not apply in the case of an individual 
who is— 
‘‘(i) entitled to vote by absentee ballot 
under the Uniformed and Overseas Citi-
zens Absentee Voting Act (52 U.S.C. 
20302 et seq.); 
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‘‘(ii) provided the right to vote other-
wise 
than 
in 
person 
under 
section 
3(b)(2)(B)(ii) of the Voting Accessibility 
for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (52 
U.S.C. 20102(b)(2)(B)(ii)); or 
‘‘(iii) entitled to vote otherwise than 
in person under any other Federal law.’’. 
(C) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING 
TO EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 303(d)(2)(A) of 
such Act (52 U.S.C. 21083(d)(2)(A)) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘Each State’’ and inserting ‘‘Ex-
cept as provided in subsection (b)(5), each 
State’’. 
(3) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(A) TIMING
OF
REGISTRATION.—Section 
8(a)(1) of the National Voter Registration Act 
of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(1)) is amended— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (C); 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph 
(D) as subparagraph (E); and 
(iii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(C) the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) in the case of online registration 
through the official public website of an election 
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official under section 6A, if the valid voter reg-
istration application is submitted online not 
later than the lesser of 28 days, or the period 
provided by State law, before the date of the 
election (as determined by treating the date on 
which the application is sent electronically as 
the date on which it is submitted); and’’. 
(B) INFORMING
APPLICANTS
OF
ELIGI-
BILITY REQUIREMENTS AND PENALTIES.—Sec-
tion 
8(a)(5) 
of 
such 
Act 
(52 
U.S.C. 
20507(a)(5)) is amended by striking ‘‘and 7’’ 
and inserting ‘‘6A, and 7’’. 
(b) SAME DAY REGISTRATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle C of title III of the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002, as added by section 
3(a), is amended— 
(A) by redesignating sections 325 and 326 
as sections 326 and 327; and 
(B) by inserting after section 324 the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 325. SAME DAY REGISTRATION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) REGISTRATION.—Each State shall permit 
any eligible individual on the day of a Federal elec-
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tion and on any day when voting, including early 
voting, is permitted for a Federal election— 
‘‘(A) to register to vote in such election at 
the polling place using a form that meets the 
requirements under section 9(b) of the National 
Voter Registration Act of 1993 (or, if the indi-
vidual is already registered to vote, to revise 
any of the individual’s voter registration infor-
mation); and 
‘‘(B) to cast a vote in such election. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The requirements under 
paragraph (1) shall not apply to a State in which, 
under a State law in effect continuously on and after 
the date of the enactment of this section, there is no 
voter registration requirement for individuals in the 
State with respect to elections for Federal office. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘eligible individual’ means, with respect 
to any election for Federal office, an individual who is oth-
erwise qualified to vote in that election. 
‘‘(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Each State shall be re-
quired to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) 
for the regularly scheduled general election for Federal of-
fice occurring in November 2020 and for any subsequent 
election for Federal office.’’. 
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(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of such Act, as amended by section 3, is 
amended— 
(A) by redesignating the items relating to 
sections 325 and 326 as relating to sections 
326 and 327; and 
(B) by inserting after the item relating to 
section 324 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 325. Same day registration.’’. 
(c) PROHIBITING STATE FROM REQUIRING APPLI-
CANTS TO PROVIDE MORE THAN LAST 4 DIGITS OF SO-
CIAL SECURITY NUMBER.— 
(1) FORM INCLUDED WITH APPLICATION FOR 
MOTOR
VEHICLE
DRIVER’S
LICENSE.—Section 
5(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the National Voter Registration Act 
of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20504(c)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended 
by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting 
the following: ‘‘, and to the extent that the applica-
tion requires the applicant to provide a Social Secu-
rity number, may not require the applicant to pro-
vide more than the last 4 digits of such number;’’. 
(2) NATIONAL
MAIL
VOTER
REGISTRATION 
FORM.—Section 9(b)(1) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 
20508(b)(1)) is amended by striking the semicolon 
at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, and to the 
extent that the form requires the applicant to pro-
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vide a Social Security number, the form may not re-
quire the applicant to provide more than the last 4 
digits of such number;’’. 
(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by this subsection shall apply with respect to the 
regularly scheduled general election for Federal of-
fice held in November 2020 and each succeeding 
election for Federal office. 
SEC. 120007. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VOTERS RESIDING IN 
INDIAN LANDS. 
(a) ACCOMMODATIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) DESIGNATION OF BALLOT PICKUP AND COL-
LECTION LOCATIONS.—Given the widespread lack of 
residential mail delivery in Indian Country, an In-
dian Tribe may designate buildings as ballot pickup 
and collection locations with respect to an election 
for Federal office at no cost to the Indian Tribe. An 
Indian Tribe may designate one building per pre-
cinct located within Indian lands. The applicable 
State or political subdivision shall collect ballots 
from those locations. The applicable State or polit-
ical subdivision shall provide the Indian Tribe with 
accurate precinct maps for all precincts located with-
in Indian lands 60 days before the election. 
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(2) PROVISION
OF
MAIL-IN
AND
ABSENTEE 
BALLOTS.—The State or political subdivision shall 
provide mail-in and absentee ballots with respect to 
an election for Federal office to each individual who 
is registered to vote in the election who resides on 
Indian lands in the State or political subdivision in-
volved without requiring a residential address or a 
mail-in or absentee ballot request. 
(3) USE OF DESIGNATED BUILDING AS RESI-
DENTIAL AND MAILING ADDRESS.—The address of a 
designated building that is a ballot pickup and col-
lection location with respect to an election for Fed-
eral office may serve as the residential address and 
mailing address for voters living on Indian lands if 
the tribally designated building is in the same pre-
cinct as that voter. If there is no tribally designated 
building within a voter’s precinct, the voter may use 
another tribally designated building within the In-
dian lands where the voter is located. Voters using 
a tribally designated building outside of the voter’s 
precinct may use the tribally designated building as 
a mailing address and may separately designate the 
voter’s appropriate precinct through a description of 
the 
voter’s 
address, 
as 
specified 
in 
section 
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9428.4(a)(2) of title 11, Code of Federal Regula-
tions. 
(4) LANGUAGE ACCESSIBILITY.—In the case of 
a State or political subdivision that is a covered 
State or political subdivision under section 203 of 
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10503), 
that State or political subdivision shall provide ab-
sentee or mail-in voting materials with respect to an 
election for Federal office in the language of the ap-
plicable minority group as well as in the English lan-
guage, bilingual election voting assistance, and writ-
ten translations of all voting materials in the lan-
guage of the applicable minority group, as required 
by section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 
U.S.C. 10503), as amended by subsection (b). 
(5) CLARIFICATION.—Nothing in this section 
alters the ability of an individual voter residing on 
Indian lands to request a ballot in a manner avail-
able to all other voters in the State. 
(6) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(A) INDIAN.—The term ‘‘Indian’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 4 of the In-
dian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 
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(B) INDIAN
LANDS.—The term ‘‘Indian 
lands’’ includes— 
(i) any Indian country of an Indian 
Tribe, as defined under section 1151 of 
title 18, United States Code; 
(ii) any land in Alaska owned, pursu-
ant to the Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), by an 
Indian Tribe that is a Native village (as 
defined in section 3 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 
1602)) or by a Village Corporation that is 
associated with an Indian Tribe (as de-
fined in section 3 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 
1602)); 
(iii) any land on which the seat of the 
Tribal Government is located; and 
(iv) any land that is part or all of a 
Tribal designated statistical area associ-
ated with an Indian Tribe, or is part or all 
of an Alaska Native village statistical area 
associated with an Indian Tribe, as defined 
by the Census Bureau for the purposes of 
the most recent decennial census. 
(C) INDIAN
TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian 
Tribe’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘Indian 
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tribe’’ in section 4 of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 
U.S.C. 5304). 
(D) TRIBAL
GOVERNMENT.—The term 
‘‘Tribal Government’’ means the recognized 
governing body of an Indian Tribe. 
(7) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(A) ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The Attorney 
General may bring a civil action in an appro-
priate district court for such declaratory or in-
junctive relief as is necessary to carry out this 
subsection. 
(B) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.— 
(i) A person or Tribal Government 
who is aggrieved by a violation of this sub-
section may provide written notice of the 
violation to the chief election official of the 
State involved. 
(ii) An aggrieved person or Tribal 
Government may bring a civil action in an 
appropriate district court for declaratory 
or injunctive relief with respect to a viola-
tion of this subsection, if— 
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relief with respect to the violation without 
providing notice to the chief election offi-
cial of the State under clause (i). 
(b) BILINGUAL ELECTION REQUIREMENTS.—Section 
203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10503) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(3)(C), by striking ‘‘1990’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2010’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(c) PROVISION OF VOTING MATERIALS IN THE LAN-
GUAGE OF A MINORITY GROUP.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Whenever any State or po-
litical subdivision subject to the prohibition of sub-
section (b) of this section provides any registration 
or voting notices, forms, instructions, assistance, or 
other materials or information relating to the elec-
toral process, including ballots, it shall provide them 
in the language of the applicable minority group as 
well as in the English language. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(i) In the case of a minority group 
that is not American Indian or Alaska Na-
tive and the language of that minority 
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group is oral or unwritten, the State or po-
litical subdivision shall only be required to 
furnish, in the covered language, oral in-
structions, assistance, translation of voting 
materials, or other information relating to 
registration and voting. 
‘‘(ii) In the case of a minority group 
that is American Indian or Alaska Native, 
the State or political subdivision shall only 
be required to furnish in the covered lan-
guage oral instructions, assistance, or 
other information relating to registration 
and voting, including all voting materials, 
if the Tribal Government of that minority 
group has certified that the language of 
the applicable American Indian or Alaska 
Native language is presently unwritten or 
the Tribal Government does not want writ-
ten translations in the minority language. 
‘‘(3) WRITTEN TRANSLATIONS FOR ELECTION 
WORKERS.—Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the 
State or political division may be required to provide 
written translations of voting materials, with the 
consent of any applicable Indian Tribe, to election 
workers to ensure that the translations from English 
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to the language of a minority group are complete, 
accurate, and uniform.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section shall apply with respect to the 
regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held 
in November 2020 and each succeeding election for Fed-
eral office. 
SEC. 120008. PAYMENTS BY ELECTION ASSISTANCE COM-
MISSION TO STATES TO ASSIST WITH COSTS 
OF COMPLIANCE. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF GRANTS.—Subtitle D of title 
II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 
21001 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new part: 
‘‘PART 7—PAYMENTS TO ASSIST WITH COSTS OF 
COMPLIANCE WITH ACCESS ACT 
‘‘SEC. 297. PAYMENTS TO ASSIST WITH COSTS OF COMPLI-
ANCE WITH ACCESS ACT. 
‘‘(a) AVAILABILITY AND USE OF PAYMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
make a payment to each eligible State to assist the 
State with the costs of complying with the American 
Coronavirus/COVID–19 Election Safety and Secu-
rity Act and the amendments made by such Act, in-
cluding the provisions of such Act and such amend-
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ments which require States to pre-pay the postage 
on absentee ballots and balloting materials. 
‘‘(2) PUBLIC
EDUCATION
CAMPAIGNS.—For 
purposes of this part, the costs incurred by a State 
in carrying out a campaign to educate the public 
about 
the 
requirements 
of 
the 
American 
Coronavirus/COVID–19 Election Safety and Secu-
rity Act and the amendments made by such Act 
shall be included as the costs of complying with such 
Act and such amendments. 
‘‘(b) PRIMARY ELECTIONS.— 
‘‘(1) PAYMENTS
TO
STATES.—In addition to 
any payments under subsection (a), the Commission 
shall make a payment to each eligible State to assist 
the State with the costs incurred in voluntarily elect-
ing to comply with the American Coronavirus/ 
COVID–19 Election Safety and Security Act and 
the amendments made by such Act with respect to 
primary elections for Federal office held in the State 
in 2020. 
‘‘(2) 
STATE
POLITICAL
PARTY-RUN
PRI-
MARIES.—In addition to any payments under para-
graph (1), in the case of a State voluntarily electing 
to comply with the American Coronavirus/COVID– 
19 Election Safety and Security Act and the amend-
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ments made by such Act with respect to primary 
elections for Federal office held in the State in 
2020, the Commission shall make a payment to each 
eligible political party of the State for the costs in-
curred by the party in transmitting absentee ballots 
and balloting materials with respect to such elections 
(including the costs relating to pre-paying the post-
age on the return envelopes for such ballots and ma-
terials). 
‘‘(c) PASS-THROUGH OF FUNDS TO LOCAL JURISDIC-
TIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If a State receives a pay-
ment under this part for costs that include costs in-
curred by a local jurisdiction or Tribal government 
within the State, the State shall pass through to 
such local jurisdiction or Tribal government a por-
tion of such payment that is equal to the amount of 
the costs incurred by such local jurisdiction or Trib-
al government. 
‘‘(2) TRIBAL GOVERNMENT DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘Tribal Government’ means the 
recognized governing body of an Indian tribe (as de-
fined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 
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‘‘(d) SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS.—As soon as prac-
ticable after the date of the enactment of this part and 
not less frequently than once each calendar year there-
after, the Commission shall make payments under this 
part. 
‘‘(e) COVERAGE OF COMMONWEALTH OF NORTHERN 
MARIANA ISLANDS.—In this part, the term ‘State’ in-
cludes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is-
lands. 
‘‘(f) LIMITATION.—No funds may be provided to a 
State under this part for costs attributable to the elec-
tronic return of marked ballots by any voter. 
‘‘SEC. 297A. AMOUNT OF PAYMENT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in section 
297C, the amount of a payment made to an eligible State 
for a year under this part shall be determined by the Com-
mission. 
‘‘(b) CONTINUING AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AFTER 
APPROPRIATION.—A payment made to an eligible State 
or eligible unit of local government under this part shall 
be available without fiscal year limitation. 
‘‘SEC. 297B. REQUIREMENTS FOR ELIGIBILITY. 
‘‘(a) APPLICATION.—Except as provided in section 
297C, each State that desires to receive a payment under 
this part for a fiscal year, and each political party of a 
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State that desires to receive a payment under section 
297(b)(2), shall submit an application for the payment to 
the Commission at such time and in such manner and con-
taining such information as the Commission shall require. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS OF APPLICATION.—Each application 
submitted under subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) describe the activities for which assistance 
under this part is sought; and 
‘‘(2) provide such additional information and 
certifications as the Commission determines to be es-
sential to ensure compliance with the requirements 
of this part. 
‘‘SEC. 297C. SPECIAL RULES FOR PAYMENTS FOR ELEC-
TIONS SUBJECT TO EMERGENCY RULES. 
‘‘(a) SUBMISSION OF ESTIMATED COSTS.—If the spe-
cial rules in the case of an emergency period under section 
322(c)(3) apply to an election, not later than the applica-
ble deadline under subsection (c), the State shall submit 
to the Commission a request for a payment under this 
part, and shall include in the request the State’s estimate 
of the costs the State expects to incur in the administra-
tion of the election which are attributable to the applica-
tion of such special rules to the election. 
‘‘(b) PAYMENT.—Not later than 7 days after receiv-
ing a request from the State under subsection (a), the 
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Commission shall make a payment to the State in an 
amount equal to the estimate provided by the State in the 
request. 
‘‘(c) APPLICABLE DEADLINE.—The applicable dead-
line under this paragraph with respect to an election is— 
‘‘(1) with respect to the regularly scheduled 
general election for Federal office held in November 
2020, 15 days after the date of the enactment of 
this part; and 
‘‘(2) with respect to any other election, 15 days 
after the emergency or disaster described in section 
322(c)(3) is declared. 
‘‘SEC. 297D. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated for pay-
ments under this part— 
‘‘(1) in the case of payments made under sec-
tion 297C, such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year; and 
‘‘(2) in the case of any other payments, such 
sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020. 
‘‘SEC. 297E. REPORTS. 
‘‘(a) REPORTS BY RECIPIENTS.—Not later than 6 
months after the end of each fiscal year for which an eligi-
ble State received a payment under this part, the State 
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shall submit a report to the Commission on the activities 
conducted with the funds provided during the year. 
‘‘(b) REPORTS BY COMMISSION TO COMMITTEES.— 
With respect to each fiscal year for which the Commission 
makes payments under this part, the Commission shall 
submit a report on the activities carried out under this 
part to the Committee on House Administration of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules 
and Administration of the Senate.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items 
relating to subtitle D of title II the following: 
‘‘PART 7—PAYMENTS TO ASSIST WITH COSTS OF COMPLIANCE WITH 
ACCESS ACT 
‘‘Sec. 297. Payments to assist with costs of compliance with Access Act. 
‘‘Sec. 297A. Amount of payment. 
‘‘Sec. 297B. Requirements for eligibility. 
‘‘Sec. 297C. Authorization of appropriations. 
‘‘Sec. 297D. Reports.’’. 
SEC. 120009. GRANTS TO STATES FOR CONDUCTING RISK- 
LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS OF ELEC-
TIONS. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF GRANTS.—Subtitle D of title 
II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 
21001 et seq.), as amended by section 8(a), is further 
amended by adding at the end the following new part: 
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‘‘PART 8—GRANTS FOR CONDUCTING RISK- 
LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS 
‘‘SEC. 298. GRANTS FOR CONDUCTING RISK-LIMITING AU-
DITS OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS. 
‘‘(a) AVAILABILITY OF GRANTS.—The Commission 
shall make a grant to each eligible State to conduct risk- 
limiting audits as described in subsection (b) with respect 
to the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal of-
fice held in November 2020 and each succeeding election 
for Federal office. 
‘‘(b) RISK-LIMITING AUDITS DESCRIBED.—In this 
part, a ‘risk-limiting audit’ is a post-election process— 
‘‘(1) which is conducted in accordance with 
rules and procedures established by the chief State 
election official of the State which meet the require-
ments of subsection (c); and 
‘‘(2) under which, if the reported outcome of 
the election is incorrect, there is at least a predeter-
mined percentage chance that the audit will replace 
the incorrect outcome with the correct outcome as 
determined by a full, hand-to-eye tabulation of all 
votes validly cast in that election that ascertains 
voter intent manually and directly from voter- 
verifiable paper records. 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENTS
FOR
RULES
AND
PROCE-
DURES.—The rules and procedures established for con-
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ducting a risk-limiting audit shall include the following 
elements: 
‘‘(1) Rules for ensuring the security of ballots 
and documenting that prescribed procedures were 
followed. 
‘‘(2) Rules and procedures for ensuring the ac-
curacy of ballot manifests produced by election agen-
cies. 
‘‘(3) Rules and procedures for governing the 
format of ballot manifests, cast vote records, and 
other data involved in the audit. 
‘‘(4) Methods to ensure that any cast vote 
records used in the audit are those used by the vot-
ing system to tally the election results sent to the 
chief State election official and made public. 
‘‘(5) Procedures for the random selection of 
ballots to be inspected manually during each audit. 
‘‘(6) Rules for the calculations and other meth-
ods to be used in the audit and to determine wheth-
er and when the audit of an election is complete. 
‘‘(7) Procedures and requirements for testing 
any software used to conduct risk-limiting audits. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this part, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
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‘‘(1) The term ‘ballot manifest’ means a record 
maintained by each election agency that meets each 
of the following requirements: 
‘‘(A) The record is created without reliance 
on any part of the voting system used to tab-
ulate votes. 
‘‘(B) The record functions as a sampling 
frame for conducting a risk-limiting audit. 
‘‘(C) The record contains the following in-
formation with respect to the ballots cast and 
counted in the election: 
‘‘(i) The total number of ballots cast 
and counted by the agency (including 
undervotes, overvotes, and other invalid 
votes). 
‘‘(ii) The total number of ballots cast 
in each election administered by the agency 
(including undervotes, overvotes, and other 
invalid votes). 
‘‘(iii) A precise description of the 
manner in which the ballots are physically 
stored, including the total number of phys-
ical groups of ballots, the numbering sys-
tem for each group, a unique label for each 
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group, and the number of ballots in each 
such group. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘incorrect outcome’ means an 
outcome that differs from the outcome that would be 
determined by a full tabulation of all votes validly 
cast in the election, determining voter intent manu-
ally, directly from voter-verifiable paper records. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘outcome’ means the winner of 
an election, whether a candidate or a position. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘reported outcome’ means the 
outcome of an election which is determined accord-
ing to the canvass and which will become the official, 
certified outcome unless it is revised by an audit, re-
count, or other legal process. 
‘‘SEC. 298A. ELIGIBILITY OF STATES. 
‘‘A State is eligible to receive a grant under this part 
if the State submits to the Commission, at such time and 
in such form as the Commission may require, an applica-
tion containing— 
‘‘(1) a certification that, not later than 5 years 
after receiving the grant, the State will conduct risk- 
limiting audits of the results of elections for Federal 
office held in the State as described in section 298; 
‘‘(2) a certification that, not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this section, the 
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chief State election official of the State has estab-
lished or will establish the rules and procedures for 
conducting the audits which meet the requirements 
of section 298(c); 
‘‘(3) a certification that the audit shall be com-
pleted not later than the date on which the State 
certifies the results of the election; 
‘‘(4) a certification that, after completing the 
audit, the State shall publish a report on the results 
of the audit, together with such information as nec-
essary to confirm that the audit was conducted prop-
erly; 
‘‘(5) a certification that, if a risk-limiting audit 
conducted under this part leads to a full manual 
tally of an election, State law requires that the State 
or election agency shall use the results of the full 
manual tally as the official results of the election; 
and 
‘‘(6) such other information and assurances as 
the Commission may require. 
‘‘SEC. 298B. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated for grants 
under this part $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, to re-
main available until expended.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act, as amended by section 8(b), is further amend-
ed by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle 
D of title II the following: 
‘‘PART 8—GRANTS FOR CONDUCTING RISK-LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS 
OF ELECTIONS 
‘‘Sec. 298. Grants for conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elec-
tions. 
‘‘Sec. 298A. Eligibility of States. 
‘‘Sec. 298B. Authorization of appropriations. 
(c) GAO ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF AUDITS.— 
(1) ANALYSIS.—Not later than 6 months after 
the first election for Federal office is held after 
grants are first awarded to States for conducting 
risk-limiting audits under part 8 of subtitle D of 
title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (as 
added by subsection (a)) for conducting risk-limiting 
audits of elections for Federal office, the Comp-
troller General of the United States shall conduct an 
analysis of the extent to which such audits have im-
proved the administration of such elections and the 
security of election infrastructure in the States re-
ceiving such grants. 
(2) REPORT.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit a report on the analysis 
conducted under subsection (a) to the appropriate 
congressional committees. 
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SEC. 120010. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 
ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In addition to any funds other-
wise appropriated to the Election Assistance Commission 
for fiscal year 2020, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$3,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 in order for the Commis-
sion to provide additional assistance and resources to 
States for improving the administration of elections. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to the authorization under this sub-
section shall remain available without fiscal year limita-
tion. 
DIVISION M—OVERSIGHT AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
SEC. 130001. CORONAVIRUS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANS-
PARENCY COMMITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
THE CORONAVIRUS AC-
COUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY COMMITTEE.—There 
is established the Coronavirus Accountability and Trans-
parency Committee within the Council of the Inspectors 
General on Integrity and Efficiency to coordinate and sup-
port Inspectors General in conducting oversight of covered 
funds to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. 
(b) COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEE.— 
(1) CHAIRPERSON.—The Chairperson of the 
Committee shall be an Inspector General, identified 
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in paragraph (2)(A) with experience managing over-
sight of large organizations and expenditures and 
shall be selected by the Chair of the Council of the 
Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. 
(2) MEMBERS.—The members of the Com-
mittee shall include— 
(A) the Inspectors General of the Depart-
ments 
of 
Commerce, 
Defense, 
Education, 
Health and Human Services, Homeland Secu-
rity, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration, Vet-
erans Affairs, and the Small Business Adminis-
tration; and 
(B) any other Inspector General as des-
ignated by the Chair of the Council of the In-
spectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. 
(c) FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE.— 
(1) FUNCTIONS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Committee shall 
coordinate and assist Inspectors General in the 
oversight of covered funds and the response of 
the Executive Branch to the Coronavirus Pan-
demic in order to prevent fraud, waste, and 
abuse. 
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(B) SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS.—The functions 
of the Committee shall include— 
(i) developing a strategic plan to en-
sure Inspectors General effectively and ef-
ficiently conduct comprehensive oversight 
over all aspects of the covered funds and 
the response by the Executive Branch to 
the Coronavirus; 
(ii) serving as a liaison to the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, 
Secretary of the Treasury, and other offi-
cials responsible for implementing this Act; 
(iii) supporting audits and investiga-
tions of covered funds to determine wheth-
er wasteful spending, poor contract or 
grant management, or other abuses are oc-
curring and referring matters the Com-
mittee considers appropriate for audit or 
investigation to the Inspector General for 
the agency that disbursed the covered 
funds or more than one Inspector General, 
as appropriate; 
(iv) supporting reviews of contracts, 
grants, and other assistance that use using 
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covered funds or that are otherwise related 
to Coronavirus by assessing whether— 
(I) the contracts, grants, and 
other 
assistance 
meet 
applicable 
standards; 
(II) the contracts, grants, and 
other assistance adequately specify the 
purpose of the contract, grant, or 
other assistance, as well as applicable 
measures of performance; and 
(III) there are sufficient qualified 
acquisition and grant personnel over-
seeing the use of covered funds; and 
(v) reviewing whether there are appro-
priate mechanisms for interagency collabo-
ration relating to covered funds, including 
coordinating and collaborating to the ex-
tent practicable with State and local gov-
ernment entities. 
(2) REPORTS.— 
(A) REPORTS.—The Committee shall sub-
mit to the President and Congress, including 
the appropriate congressional committees, time-
ly alerts on current or potential management 
and funding problems that require immediate 
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attention. The Committee also shall submit to 
Congress such other reports as the Committee 
considers appropriate on the use and benefits of 
covered funds and the response of the Executive 
Branch to the Coronavirus. 
(B) BIANNUAL REPORTS.—The Committee 
shall submit reports every six months to the 
President and the appropriate congressional 
committees, summarizing the findings of the 
Committee and Inspectors General of agencies. 
The Committee may submit additional reports 
as appropriate. 
(C) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—All reports sub-
mitted under this paragraph shall be made 
publicly available and posted on the 
website established by subsection (e). 
(ii) REDACTIONS.—Any portion of a 
report submitted under this paragraph 
may be redacted when made publicly avail-
able, if that portion would disclose infor-
mation that is not subject to disclosure 
under sections 552 and 552a of title 5, 
United States Code. 
(3) RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The Committee, in co-
ordination with the member Inspectors General, 
shall make recommendations to agencies and to 
Congress, including the appropriate committees, 
on measures to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse 
relating to covered funds. 
(B) RESPONSIVE
REPORTS.—Not later 
than 30 days after receipt of a recommendation 
under subparagraph (A), an agency shall sub-
mit a report to the President, the congressional 
committees of jurisdiction, and the appropriate 
congressional committees, on— 
(i) whether the agency agrees or dis-
agrees with the recommendations; and 
(ii) any specific action or action plan 
the agency will take to implement the rec-
ommendations. 
(d) POWERS
AND
AUTHORITIES
OF
THE
COM-
MITTEE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Committee shall coordi-
nate and support investigations, audits and reviews 
of spending of covered funds to avoid duplication 
and overlap of work and ensure that there are not 
gaps in oversight activities by the member Inspec-
tors General. If a gap in oversight is identified, the 
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Committee shall request that an Inspector General 
or more than one Inspector General, designated by 
the Chair, conduct the appropriate audit or review. 
(2) AUDITS AND INVESTIGATIONS.—The Com-
mittee may— 
(A) provide all necessary support to an In-
spector General or Inspectors General in the 
conduct of investigations, audits, evaluations, 
and reviews relating to covered funds and 
Coronavirus response; and 
(B) collaborate on investigations, audits 
and reviews relating to covered funds and 
Coronavirus response with any Inspector Gen-
eral of an agency or more than one Inspectors 
General. 
(3) AUTHORITIES.— 
(A) AUDITS
AND
INVESTIGATIONS.—In 
providing assistance to Inspectors General in 
the conduct of investigations, audits and re-
views, the Committee shall have the authorities 
provided under section 6 of the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). The Com-
mittee may issue subpoenas to compel the testi-
mony of persons and may enforce subpoenas in 
the event of a refusal to obey by order of any 
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appropriate United States district court as pro-
vided for Inspector General subpoenas under 
section 6 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 
(5 U.S.C. App.). 
(B) STANDARDS
AND
GUIDELINES.—The 
Committee shall carry out the powers under 
paragraphs (1) and (2) in accordance with sec-
tion 4(b)(1) of the Inspector General Act of 
1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 
(C) REPORT OF REFUSALS.—Whenever in-
formation or assistance requested by the Com-
mittee or an Inspector General, is unreasonably 
refused or not provided, the Committee shall 
immediately report the circumstances to the ap-
propriate committees. 
(D) INFORMATION
AND
ASSISTANCE.— 
Upon request of the Committee for information 
or assistance from any agency or other entity of 
the Federal Government, or any recipient under 
this Act, the head of such entity shall, insofar 
as is practicable and not in contravention of 
any existing law, and consistent with section 6 
of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, furnish such information or assist-
ance to the Committee. 
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(4) CONTRACTS.—The Council may enter into 
contracts to enable the Committee to discharge its 
duties under this Act, including contracts for audits, 
studies, analyses, and other services with public 
agencies and private persons, and make such pay-
ments as may be necessary to carry out the duties 
of the Committee. 
(5) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—The Council may 
transfer funds appropriated to the Council under 
this section for administrative support services and 
any audits, investigations, reviews, or other activities 
to any office of Inspector General. 
(6) EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONNEL AUTHORI-
TIES.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.— 
(i) AUTHORITIES.—The Council may 
exercise the authorities of subsections (b) 
through (i) of section 3161 of title 5, 
United States Code, (without regard to 
subsection (a) of that section) to carry out 
the Committee’s functions under this sec-
tion. 
(ii) APPLICATION.—For purposes of 
exercising the authorities described under 
clause (i), the term ‘‘Chairperson of the 
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Council’’ shall be substituted for the term 
‘‘head of a temporary organization’’. 
(iii) CONSULTATION.—In exercising 
the authorities described under clause (i), 
the Chairperson shall consult with mem-
bers of the Committee. 
(iv) EMPLOYMENT AUTHORITIES.—In 
exercising 
the 
employment 
authorities 
under subsection (b) of section 3161 of 
title 5, United States Code, paragraph (2) 
of subsection (b) of section 3161 of that 
title (relating to periods of appointments) 
shall not apply and no period of appoint-
ment may exceed the date on which the 
Committee terminates under subsection (i). 
(v) DETAIL OF PERSONNEL.—In addi-
tion to the authority provided by sub-
section (c) of section 3161 of title 5, 
United States Code, upon the request of 
an Inspector General, the Council may de-
tail, on a nonreimbursable basis, any per-
sonnel of the Committee to that Inspector 
General to assist in carrying out any audit 
or investigation referred to the Inspector 
General by the Committee. 
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(vi) 
REHIRING
ANNUITANTS.—The 
Committee may employ annuitants covered 
by section 9902(g) of title 5, United States 
Code, for purposes of the oversight of cov-
ered funds or the Coronavirus response. 
The employment of annuitants under this 
subparagraph shall be subject to the provi-
sions of section 9902(g) of title 5, United 
States Code, as if the Committee was the 
Department of Defense. 
(vii) COMPETITIVE
STATUS.—A per-
son employed by the Committee shall ac-
quire competitive status for appointment to 
any position in the competitive service for 
which the employee possesses the required 
qualifications upon the completion of 2 
years of continuous service as an employee 
under this subsection. No person who is 
first employed more than 2 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act may ac-
quire competitive status under this author-
ity. 
(e) COMMITTEE WEBSITE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Committee shall 
utilize www.Oversight.gov to establish and maintain, 
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no later than 30 days after the enactment of this 
Act, a public-facing website for accountability and 
transparency in the use of covered funds. 
(2) PURPOSE.—The website established and 
maintained under paragraph (1) shall provide infor-
mation relating to implementation of this Act and 
provide connections to other government websites 
with related information. 
(3) CONTENT AND FUNCTION.—In establishing 
the website established and maintained under para-
graph (1), the Committee shall ensure the website— 
(A) provides materials explaining what this 
Act means for citizens in plain language and 
shall be regularly updated; 
(B) provides accountability information, in-
cluding findings from audits, investigations, or 
reviews conducted by the Committee, Inspectors 
General, and the Government Accountability 
Office; 
(C) provides data made available in a 
searchable, sortable, downloadable, and ma-
chine-readable format; 
(D) provides— 
(i) data on how funds provided under 
this Act are spent including through rel-
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evant economic, financial, grant, subgrant, 
contract, subcontract, loan, and other rel-
evant information with a unique, trackable 
identification number for each project 
where applicable; and 
(ii) information about the process that 
was used for the award of loans, grants, or 
contracts, and for contracts over $150,000, 
an explanation of the contract agreement 
where applicable; 
(E) 
includes 
searchable, 
sortable, 
downloadable, machine-readable reports on cov-
ered funds obligated by month to each State 
and congressional district where applicable; 
(F) includes detailed information on Fed-
eral Government contracts, grants, and loans 
that expend covered funds, using, where appli-
cable, the data elements required by the Digital 
Access and Transparency Act (Public Law 
113–101), and shall allow for aggregate report-
ing on awards below $50,000 or to individuals, 
as prescribed by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget; 
(G) includes appropriate links to other gov-
ernment websites with information concerning 
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covered funds, including Federal agency and 
State websites; 
(H) provides information on Federal allo-
cations of formula grants and awards of com-
petitive grants using covered funds; 
(I) provides, if applicable, information on 
Federal allocations of mandatory and other en-
titlement programs by State, county, or other 
appropriate geographical unit; 
(J) be enhanced and updated as necessary 
to carry out the purposes of this section; and 
(K) presents the data such that funds sub-
awarded by recipients are not double counted in 
search results, data visualizations or other re-
ports. 
(4) WAIVER.—The Committee may exclude 
posting contractual or other information on the 
website on a case-by-case basis when necessary to 
protect information that is not subject to disclosure 
under sections 552 and 552a of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(f) INDEPENDENCE OF INSPECTORS GENERAL.— 
(1) INDEPENDENT
AUTHORITY.—Nothing in 
this section shall affect the independent authority of 
an Inspector General or the Comptroller General to 
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determine whether to conduct an audit or investiga-
tion of covered funds. 
(2) REQUESTS BY COMMITTEE.—If the Com-
mittee requests that an Inspector General conduct or 
refrain from conducting an audit or investigation 
and such Inspector General rejects such request in 
whole or in part, such Inspector General shall, not 
later than 30 days after rejecting the request, sub-
mit a report to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees. The report shall state the reasons that such 
Inspector General has rejected the request in whole 
or in part. 
(g) COORDINATION WITH THE COMPTROLLER GEN-
ERAL AND STATE AUDITORS.—The Committee shall co-
ordinate its oversight activities with the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States and State and local auditors. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purposes of carrying out the mission of the Council of the 
Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency under sec-
tion 11 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.) and to carry out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated into the revolving fund described in 
subsection (c)(3)(B) of such section, out of any amount 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000 
to carry out the duties and functions of the Council. 
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(i) TERMINATION OF THE COMMITTEE.—The Com-
mittee and its authorities and responsibilities shall termi-
nate on the later of— 
(1) the date the last grant administered under 
this Act is expended; 
(2) the date the last contract administered 
under this Act expires; 
(3) the date the last loan or loan guarantee pro-
vided under this Act matures or expires, as appro-
priate; or 
(4) the date the last instrument or asset ac-
quired by the Federal Government has been sold or 
transferred out of the ownership or control of the 
Federal Government, or otherwise disposed of. 
(j) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 
COMMITTEE.—The 
term 
‘‘Committee’’ 
means the Coronavirus Accountability and Trans-
parency Committee established in subsection (a). 
(2) COVERED
FUNDS.—The term ‘‘covered 
funds’’ means any funds that are made available, in 
any form, under this Act. 
(3) RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘recipient’’ means a 
recipient of Federal funds under this Act. 
(4) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
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mittees’’ means the Committees on Appropriations 
and Homeland Security of the Senate and Commit-
tees on Appropriations and Oversight and Reform in 
the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 130002. GAO OVERSIGHT AND AUDIT AUTHORITY. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Comptroller General shall con-
duct monitoring and oversight of the exercise of authori-
ties under this Act or any other Act to prepare for, re-
spond to, and recover from the Coronavirus pandemic and 
the effect of the pandemic on the health, economy, and 
public and private institutions of the United States, in-
cluding public health and homeland security efforts by the 
Federal Government and the use of selected funds under 
this or any other Act related to the Coronavirus pandemic. 
(b) BRIEFINGS AND REPORTS.—In conducting moni-
toring and oversight under subsection (a), the Comptroller 
General shall— 
(1) during the period beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act and ending on the date on 
which the national emergency declared by the Presi-
dent under the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) with respect to the Coronavirus 
Disease 2019 expires, offer regular briefings on not 
less frequently than a monthly basis to the appro-
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priate congressional committees regarding Federal 
public health and homeland security efforts; 
(2) publish reports regarding the ongoing moni-
toring and oversight efforts, which, along with any 
audits and investigations conducted by the Comp-
troller General, shall be submitted to the appropriate 
congressional committees and posted on the website 
of the Government Accountability Office— 
(A) not later than 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, every other month 
thereafter until the date that is 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act; and 
(B) after the period described in subpara-
graph (A), on a periodic basis; and 
(3) submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees additional reports as warranted by the 
findings of the monitoring and oversight activities of 
the Comptroller General. 
(c) ACCESS TO INFORMATION.— 
(1) RIGHT OF ACCESS.—In conducting moni-
toring and oversight activities under this section, the 
Comptroller General shall have access to records, 
upon request, of any Federal, State, or local agency, 
contractor, grantee, recipient, or subrecipient per-
taining to any Federal effort or assistance of any 
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type related to Coronavirus under this Act or any 
other Act, including private entities receiving such 
assistance. 
(2) COPIES.—The Comptroller General may 
make and retain copies of any records accessed 
under paragraph (1) as the Comptroller General de-
termines appropriate. 
(3) INTERVIEWS.—In addition to such other au-
thorities as are available, the Comptroller General or 
a designee of the Comptroller General may interview 
Federal, State, or local officials, contractor staff, 
grantee staff, recipients, or subrecipients pertaining 
to any Federal effort or assistance of any type re-
lated to Coronavirus under this or any other Act, in-
cluding private entities receiving such assistance. 
(4) INSPECTION
OF
FACILITIES.—As deter-
mined necessary by the Comptroller General, the 
Government Accountability Office may inspect facili-
ties at which Federal, State, or local officials, con-
tractor staff, grantee staff, or recipients or sub-
recipients carry out their responsibilities related to 
Coronavirus. 
(5) ENFORCEMENT.—Access rights under this 
subsection shall be subject to enforcement consistent 
with section 716 of title 31, United States Code. 
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(2) DELAY OF REPAYMENT.—In the case of a 
qualified individual with an outstanding loan (on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act) from a 
qualified employer plan (as defined in section 
72(p)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986)— 
(A) if the due date pursuant to subpara-
graph (B) or (C) of section 72(p)(2) of such 
Code for any repayment with respect to such 
loan occurs during the period beginning on the 
date of the enactment of this Act and ending on 
December 31, 2020, such due date shall be de-
layed for 1 year (or, if later, until the date 
which is 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act), 
(B) any subsequent repayments with re-
spect to any such loan shall be appropriately 
adjusted to reflect the delay in the due date 
under subparagraph (A) and any interest accru-
ing during such delay, and 
(C) in determining the 5-year period and 
the term of a loan under subparagraph (B) or 
(C) of section 72(p)(2) of such Code, the period 
described in subparagraph (A) of this para-
graph shall be disregarded. 
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‘‘(2) LOAN INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the 
Pension Rehabilitation Administration estab-
lished under section 502 of the Rehabilitation 
for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 2020 shall 
deposit in the Fund any amounts received from 
a plan as payment of interest or principal on a 
loan under section 504 of such Act. 
‘‘(B) INTEREST.—For purposes of sub-
paragraph (A), the term ‘interest’ includes 
points and other similar amounts. 
‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts cred-
ited to or deposited in the Fund shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
‘‘(c) EXPENDITURES FROM FUND.—Amounts in the 
Fund are available without further appropriation to the 
Pension Rehabilitation Administration— 
‘‘(1) for the purpose of making the loans de-
scribed in section 504 of the Rehabilitation for Mul-
tiemployer Pensions Act of 2020, 
‘‘(2) for the payment of principal and interest 
on obligations issued under section 506 of such Act, 
and 
‘‘(3) for administrative and operating expenses 
of such Administration.’’. 
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