Title: Strengthening Local Coronavirus Response Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Strengthening Local Coronavirus Response Act
This bill requires states to pay 45% of the amounts received from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local governments that did not receive a direct payment from the fund.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3767 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3767

 To require States to pass-through 45 percent of the amounts paid from 
the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local governments that did not receive a 
                     direct payment from the Fund.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 19, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require States to pass-through 45 percent of the amounts paid from 
the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local governments that did not receive a 
                     direct payment from the Fund.

    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 ``Strengthening Local Coronavirus 
Response Act''.

SEC. 2. PASS-THROUGH OF PORTION OF STATE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND TO 
              LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

    (a) Pass-Through Requirement.--Subsection (b) of section 601 of the 
Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus 
Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116-136) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Subject to paragraph 
        (2)'' and inserting ``Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following
            ``(3) Pass-through requirement.--Each State shall 
        distribute 45 percent of the amount paid to the State under 
        this section for fiscal year 2020 (after the application of 
        paragraph (2)) upon receipt on a pass-through basis, and 
        without requiring any application, to each unit of local 
        government in the State that is not a large unit of local 
        government that received a direct payment under this section in 
        accordance with paragraph (2). The preceding distribution 
        requirement shall not apply to the District of Columbia.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 601 of such Act is further 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting 
                ``large'' before ``unit of local government'' each 
                place it appears; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the paragraph heading, by inserting 
                        ``large'' before ``units''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following: 
                        ``For purposes of this section, the term `large 
                        unit of local government' means a unit of local 
                        government, as defined in subsection (g)(2), 
                        with a population that exceeds 500,000.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(5)--
                    (A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting 
                ``large'' before ``unit''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``large'' before ``unit of local 
                government'' each place it appears;
            (3) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by inserting ``direct'' before ``payment''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``large'' before ``unit of local 
                government'' each place it appears; and
            (4) in subsection (g)(2)--
                    (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``Local'' 
                and inserting ``Unit of local''; and
                    (B) by striking ``with a population that exceeds 
                500,000.''
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of section 601 of the Social 
Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, 
Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116-136).
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