Title: A bill to provide States, Tribal governments, and local governments with spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill provides states, tribal governments, and local governments with added spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.
Currently, payments from the fund may only be used to cover certain costs that are necessary expenditures incurred due to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.
The bill allows each state, tribal government, and unit of local government to use up to 25% of the amount paid to it for any purpose, including for expenditures to satisfy a nonfederal share requirement for any aid, assistance, grant, or other financial relief provided by the federal government.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3682 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3682

   To provide States, Tribal governments, and local governments with 
 spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 2020

  Mr. Rounds introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide States, Tribal governments, and local governments with 
 spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.

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

SECTION 1. CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND USE OF FUNDS.

    Effective as if included in the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, 
Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116-136), subsection (d) 
of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) 
of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, is amended 
to read as follows:
    ``(d) Use of Funds.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), a 
        State, Tribal government, and unit of local government shall 
        use the funds provided under a payment made under this section 
        to cover only those costs of the State, Tribal government, or 
        unit of local government that--
                    ``(A) are necessary expenditures incurred due to 
                the public health emergency with respect to the 
                Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19);
                    ``(B) were not accounted for in the budget most 
                recently approved as of the date of enactment of this 
                section for the State or government; and
                    ``(C) were incurred during the period that begins 
                on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 31, 2020.
            ``(2) State, tribal, and local specific needs.--Each State, 
        Tribal government, and unit of local government may use up to 
        25 percent of the amount paid to the State, Tribal government, 
        or unit of local government under this section for any purpose, 
        including for expenditures to satisfy a non-Federal share 
        requirement for any aid, assistance, grant, or other financial 
        relief provided by the Federal Government.''.
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