Title: Continuing Emergency Support for Restaurants Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Continuing Emergency Support for Restaurants Act
This bill provides an additional $48 billion in FY2021 for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund and designates specified amounts for fund administrative expenses and audits of grants made from the fund. The fund was established in response to COVID-19 to make grants to eligible food and beverage purveyors for covering specified costs such as payroll, operational expenses, and paid sick leave.
The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2675 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2675

       To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase 
    appropriations to Restaurant Revitalization Fund, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 7, 2021

 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. 
 Cantwell, Ms. Ernst, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Cassidy, Ms. Stabenow, and Mrs. 
  Hyde-Smith) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
       To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase 
    appropriations to Restaurant Revitalization Fund, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Continuing Emergency Support for 
Restaurants Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE RESTAURANT REVITALIZATION FUND.

    (a) In General.--Section 5003(b)(2) of the American Rescue Plan Act 
of 2021 (15 U.S.C. 9009c(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``$28,600,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$76,600,000,000''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, of which $280,000,000 shall be 
                for administrative expenses to carry out this section 
                and $20,000,000 shall be for the Inspector General of 
                the Small Business Administration for audits of grants 
                under this section to investigate fraud and to identify 
                ineligible recipients, and for other necessary expenses 
                of the Office of the Inspector General'' before the 
                period at the end; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(i)(II), by striking 
        ``$23,600,000,000'' and inserting ``$71,300,000,000''.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--
            (1) In general.--The amounts provided under the amendments 
        made by subsection (a) are designated as an emergency 
        requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-
        You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
            (2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, the amendments 
        made by subsection (a) are designated as an emergency 
        requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 
        (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
        fiscal year 2018.
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