Empowering Nonprofits Act
Bill: H.R.1966 | Sponsor: Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer (R-PR)
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Empowering Nonprofits Act
This bill reduces cost-sharing requirements for grants directly awarded to certain nonprofit organizations during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period and the following five years. Eligible nonprofit organizations are those in jurisdictions with more than 20% of individuals living below the poverty line.
Specifically, the bill provides that (1) any cost-sharing requirement shall be waived during a COVID-19 emergency period; and (2) in the five years following such an emergency, any cost-sharing requirement shall be reduced by 25%.

To require executive agencies to reduce cost-sharing requirements for 
  certain grants with certain nonprofit organizations, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Empowering Nonprofits Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL AND REDUCTION OF COST-SHARING REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTS.

    (a) Removal of Cost-Sharing Requirement During the COVID-19 
Emergency Period.--Any cost-sharing requirement for an eligible 
nonprofit organization for grants made directly to that organization by 
an executive agency shall be waived during a COVID-19 emergency period.
    (b) Reduction of Cost-Sharing Requirement.--Beginning on the 
expiration of the COVID-19 emergency period and ending 5 years 
thereafter, the head of an executive agency shall reduce any cost-
sharing requirement 25 percent for an eligible nonprofit organization 
for grants made directly to that organization.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) COVID-19 emergency period.--The term ``COVID-19 
        emergency period'' means a period that--
                    (A) begins on the date of a determination by the 
                Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to 
                section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
                247d) that a public health emergency exists as a result 
                of COVID-19; and
                    (B) ends on the date on which such determination 
                (including any renewal thereof) terminates.
            (2) Eligible nonprofit organization.--The term ``eligible 
        nonprofit organization'' means a nonprofit organization that is 
        located in a State with more than 20 percent of individuals 
        living below the Federal poverty line.
            (3) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given in section 133 of title 41, United States 
        Code.
            (4) Nonprofit organization.--The term ``nonprofit 
        organization'' means an organization that is described in 
        section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1968 and 
        exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
            (5) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the several 
        States, the District of Columbia, each commonwealth, territory, 
        or possession of the United States, and each federally 
        recognized Tribe.
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