Title: Flexibility for Localities and Eligibility Expansion Act of 2020
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Flexibility for Localities and Eligibility Expansion Act of 2020
This bill expands the permissible uses of funds under the Coronavirus Relief Fund.
Specifically, the bill authorizes a state, tribal government, or unit of local government to use funds (1) to offset revenue shortfalls that occurred between March 1 and December 30, 2020, related to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency, or (2) for COVID-19-related costs or revenue shortfalls of units of local government too small to qualify for direct funding.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6652 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6652

To amend title VI of the Social Security Act to expand the permissible 
            use of funds under the Coronavirus Relief Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2020

 Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
 Fortenberry, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Crow, Mr. Cisneros, Mrs. 
   Luria, and Ms. Sherrill) introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title VI of the Social Security Act to expand the permissible 
            use of funds under the Coronavirus Relief 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 ``Flexibility for Localities and 
Eligibility Expansion Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF PERMISSIBLE USE OF FUNDS UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS 
              RELIEF FUND.

    Section 601(d) of the Social Security Act, as added by section 
5001(a) of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136), is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(d) Use of Funds.--A State, Tribal government, and unit of local 
government shall use the funds provided under a payment made under this 
section--
            ``(1) to cover those costs of the State, Tribal government, 
        or unit of local government (or of any other unit of local 
        government with a population not greater than 500,000 within 
        such 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 30, 2020; or
            ``(2) to offset revenue shortfalls of the State, Tribal 
        government, or unit of local government (or of any other unit 
        of local government with a population not greater than 500,000 
        within such State, Tribal government, or unit of local 
        government) that occurred due to such public health emergency 
        during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on 
        December 30, 2020, including shortfalls in--
                    ``(A) taxes collected, including income tax, 
                property tax, sales and use tax, restaurant tax, hotel 
                tax, occupation tax, motor vehicle fuel tax, rental car 
                tax, and payments in lieu of tax;
                    ``(B) charges, rents, royalties, and fees, 
                including utility fees, franchise fees, license fees, 
                and permit fees;
                    ``(C) intergovernmental transfers; and
                    ``(D) dedicated revenue streams pledged for bond 
                payments.''.
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