Title: CARES Congressional Oversight Commission Diversity Act of 2020
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
CARES Congressional Oversight Commission Diversity Act of 2020
This bill increases from five to nine the membership of the Congressional Oversight Commission that oversees the implementation of specific measures intended to provide economic stability as a result of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. It also requires that at least four members be from a group that has experienced disproportionately negative impacts from the pandemic and the resulting economic recession.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4459 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4459

  To amend the CARES Act to modify the membership requirements of the 
                  Congressional Oversight Commission.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 2020

Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Ms. Harris, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Booker) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the CARES Act to modify the membership requirements of the 
                  Congressional Oversight Commission.

    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 ``CARES Congressional Oversight 
Commission Diversity Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The COVID-19 pandemic is having significantly disparate 
        health and economic impacts on various populations.
            (2) According to the Centers for Disease Control and 
        Prevention, long-standing systemic health and social inequities 
        have put some members of racial and ethnic minority groups at 
        increased risk of getting COVID-19, regardless of age.
            (3) Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native 
        individuals have an infection rate approximately 5 times that 
        of non-Hispanic White individuals.
            (4) Non-Hispanic Black individuals have an infection rate 
        of approximately 5 times that of non-Hispanic White 
        individuals.
            (5) Hispanic and Latino individuals have an infection rate 
        of approximately 4 times that of non-Hispanic White 
        individuals.
            (6) According the Household Pulse Survey, 6 in 10 Hispanic 
        individuals were in households that lost some employment income 
        over the 3-month period between March and June of 2020. During 
        that same time period, more than 50 percent of Black, 
        multiracial, and individuals of other races were in households 
        with employment income loss.
            (7) The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis surveyed 
        leadership representing Tribal governments, Tribal enterprises, 
        and other Tribal organizations. In that survey, over 30 percent 
        of Tribal enterprises reported they had to lay off or furlough 
        80 to 100 percent of their workforce at the time of the survey.

SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMISSION.

    Section 4020(c)(1) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9055(c)(1)) is 
amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``5'' and inserting ``9'';
            (2) in subparagraphs (A) through (D), strike ``1'' each 
        place the term appears and insert ``2''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) At least 1 of the 2 members appointed under 
                each of subparagraphs (A) through (D) shall be from a 
                group that has been disproportionately negatively 
                impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) 
                pandemic of 2020 and the economic recession resulting 
                from the pandemic.''.
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