Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 
(5) LOCAL
APPOINTED
OFFICIAL.—The term 
‘‘local’’, used with respect to an appointed official, 
means an individual who— 
(A) is appointed to a position on an advi-
sory committee that makes recommendations to 
local government; and 
(B) is not paid for the individual’s work in 
the position. 
(6) LOCAL
ELECTED
OFFICIAL.—The term 
‘‘local’’, used with respect to an elected official, 
means an official who is elected for a position, from 
a village, town, county, or other municipality that is 
not national or statewide, via an election authorized 
by a local election board. 
(7) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘‘local 
government’’ means the government of any village, 
town, city, county, or other municipality that is not 
national or statewide. 
(8) REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION.—The term 
‘‘reasonable accommodation’’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 101 of the Americans with Dis-
abilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12111). 
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(9) RURAL.—The term ‘‘rural’’, used with re-
spect to an area, means an area classified as a rural 
commuting area under the Rural-Urban Commuting 
Area Codes developed by the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services. 
(10) SECRETARY.—Except as otherwise speci-
fied, the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of 
Labor, acting through the Assistant Secretary for 
Disability Employment Policy. 
(11) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any of 
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, 
the United States Virgin Islands, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Marianas. 
(12) WORK DUTIES.—The term ‘‘work duties’’ 
means the essential functions of an employment po-
sition. 
SEC. 4. COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts appropriated 
to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall award grants 
to eligible entities in any State or associated with any In-
dian tribe in order to provide, to local elected or appointed 
officials who have disabilities, reasonable accommodations 
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needed to enable the officials to carry out their official 
work duties, which accommodations may include— 
(1) physical adaptations of office space and 
other spaces used for public events; 
(2) specialized software; 
(3) communication supports, including sign lan-
guage interpreters; 
(4) provision of transportation services for an 
official work event (excluding transportation for 
commuting); and 
(5) other assistive technology devices and as-
sistive technology services needed to carry out offi-
cial work duties. 
(b) AWARDS.— 
(1) PROCESS.—During a fiscal year, the Sec-
retary shall award the grants on a first-come, first- 
served basis until the funds appropriated under this 
section for that year are exhausted. If funds appro-
priated under this section are not exhausted for a 
fiscal year, the Secretary may use the funds to 
award such grants during a subsequent fiscal year. 
(2) AMOUNTS.—The Secretary shall award such 
a grant in an amount of not less than $3,000 and 
not more than $50,000, per year of the grant period. 
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(c) GRANT PERIOD.—The Secretary shall award such 
a grant for a period equal to— 
(1) the number of years the local elected or ap-
pointed official involved will be in office during the 
official’s first term; and 
(2) 2 years. 
(d) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this section, an entity shall be a local govern-
ment— 
(1) that has a local elected or appointed official 
who has a disability and needs a reasonable accom-
modation to carry out the official’s official work du-
ties; and 
(2) for a jurisdiction that— 
(A) is in a rural area; 
(B) has a population of less than 10,000; 
or 
(C) has a population of 10,000 to less than 
200,000, and a poverty rate of 18 percent or 
greater, according to the most recent data 
available from the Bureau of the Census. 
(e) APPLICATION AND SELECTION.— 
(1) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this section, an entity shall submit an 
application to the Secretary, in accordance with a 
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process prescribed by the Secretary, that shall in-
clude, at a minimum— 
(A) a description of— 
(i) the position, including the official 
work duties of the position, held by the 
local elected or appointed official involved; 
(ii) the needed reasonable accom-
modations for the local elected or ap-
pointed official; and 
(iii) a budget to cover those accom-
modations; and 
(B) assurances that the eligible entity 
will— 
(i) use the grant funds only for rea-
sonable accommodations needed for the 
local elected or appointed official involved 
to carry out their official work duties; 
(ii) provide, for each fiscal year, non- 
Federal matching funds equal to not less 
than 25 percent of the amount provided 
through the grant for that fiscal year; 
(iii) use the non-Federal matching 
funds to fund a reasonable accommoda-
tions funding account; 
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(iv) continue the funding of that ac-
count for at least 4 years after the end of 
the grant period, maintaining a balance in 
the account equal to the total amount of 
non-Federal matching funds provided by 
the entity during the grant period; 
(v) use the account solely for the pur-
poses of assisting local elected and ap-
pointed officials who have disabilities, by 
providing 
reasonable 
accommodations 
needed to carry out their official work du-
ties; and 
(vi) submit annual reports on the 
grant activities as required by the Sec-
retary. 
(2) SELECTION PROCESS.—The Secretary shall 
award grants in accordance with a process pre-
scribed by the Secretary. 
(f) ALLOWABLE USE.—An eligible entity that re-
ceives a grant under this Act may use the grant funds 
for reasonable accommodations needed to enable a local 
elected or appointed official who has a disability to carry 
out the official work duties of the local elected or ap-
pointed official. The reasonable accommodations may in-
clude the physical adaptations, specialized software, com-
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munication supports, and devices and services, described 
in subsection (a). 
(g) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall annually 
prepare a report regarding the impact of the grant 
program carried out under this section, which report 
shall include— 
(A) the number of applications received 
under the program; 
(B) the number of eligible entities that re-
ceived a grant; 
(C) a description of the communities re-
ceiving the grant funding, such as— 
(i) information on whether the com-
munities are— 
(I) rural areas or jurisdictions 
described in subsection (d)(2); or 
(II) other types of communities; 
(ii) race and ethnicity data for the 
communities; 
(iii) information on the percentage of 
the population of the communities that is 
living in poverty; and 
(iv) related community demographics; 
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(D) a description of the types of positions 
held by the local elected or appointed officials 
supported; and 
(E) a description of the types of adapta-
tions, services, assistive technology, technology, 
communication services, and other reasonable 
accommodations funded through the grants in 
order for the local elected or appointed officials 
to carry out their official responsibilities. 
(2) INFORMATION
ADDED
AFTER
SECOND 
YEAR.—Beginning with the third year of the pro-
gram and for each subsequent year, in addition to 
the information specified in paragraph (1), the re-
port shall include— 
(A) the total amount of funds eligible enti-
ties receiving the grants invested in reasonable 
accommodations funding accounts; and 
(B) aggregate data on the age, sex, gender 
identity, race and ethnicity, and disability of the 
local elected or appointed officials the grant 
program is supporting. 
(3) SUBMISSION.—The Secretary shall annually 
submit the report prepared under this subsection 
to— 
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(A) the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Education and 
Labor of the House of Representatives; and 
(C) the Special Committee on Aging of the 
Senate. 
(h) ADMINISTRATION.—From the amounts made 
available under subsection (i) for a fiscal year, the Sec-
retary may reserve and use not more than 1 percent for 
administration of the grant program carried out under 
this section. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this Act, $5,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2025 through 2031. 
(2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated under 
paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended. 
Æ 
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