A bill to provide States, Tribal governments, and local governments with spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.

Bill: 116-s-3682
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2020-05-11
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Federal-Indian relations

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Intergovernmental relations

State and local finance

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill provides states, tribal governments, and local governments with added spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.</p> <p>Currently, payments from the fund may only be used to cover certain costs that are necessary expenditures incurred due to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.</p> <p>The bill allows each state, tribal government, and unit of local government to use up to 25% of the amount paid to it for any purpose, including for expenditures to satisfy a nonfederal share requirement for any aid, assistance, grant, or other financial relief provided by the federal government.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3682 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 11, 2020 Mr. Rounds introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To provide States, Tribal governments, and local governments with spending discretion for part of their Coronavirus Relief Fund payment.

1. Coronavirus Relief Fund use of funds Effective as if included in the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ( Public Law 116–136 ), subsection (d) of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, is amended to read as follows: (d) Use of funds (1) In general Except as provided in paragraph (2), a State, Tribal government, and unit of local government shall use the funds provided under a payment made under this section to 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 March 1, 2020, and ends on December 31, 2020. (2) State, Tribal, and local specific needs Each State, Tribal government, and unit of local government may use up to 25 percent of the amount paid to the State, Tribal government, or unit of local government under this section for any purpose, including for expenditures to satisfy a non-Federal share requirement for any aid, assistance, grant, or other financial relief provided by the Federal Government. .