Title: Coronavirus Relief Fund Expansion Act of 2020
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Coronavirus Relief Fund Expansion Act of 2020
This bill extends the deadline to spend COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) relief funds to December 31, 2021, and allows the use of such funds to replace lost, delayed, or decreased revenues for emergency services organizations, stemming from the public health emergency with respect to COVID-19.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8950 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8950

     To expand the permissible uses of amounts provided under the 
                        Coronavirus Relief Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2020

Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania (for himself and Ms. Dean) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
     To expand the permissible uses of amounts provided 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 ``Coronavirus Relief Fund Expansion 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. USE OF AMOUNTS PROVIDED UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND.

    (a) In General.--Section 601(d) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 801(d)) 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 to--
            ``(1) 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 January 31, 2020, and ends on December 31, 2021; or
            ``(2) replace lost, delayed, or decreased revenues for 
        emergency services organizations, stemming from the public 
        health emergency with respect to the coronavirus disease 
        (COVID-19).''.
    (b) Definition of Emergency Services Organization.--Section 601(g) 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 801(g)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(6) Emergency services organization.--The term `emergency 
        services organization' means an organization described in 
        section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt 
        from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code that--
                    ``(A) is organized and operated to provide 
                firefighting or emergency medical services for persons 
                in the State, Tribal government, or unit of local 
                government, as the case may be, and
                    ``(B) is required (by written agreement) by the 
                State, Tribal government, or unit of local government 
                to furnish firefighting or emergency medical services 
                in such State, Tribal government, or unit of local 
                government.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the CARES Act (Public 
Law 116-136).
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