Continuing Emergency Support for Restaurants Act

Bill: 117-s-2675
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-08-07
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting and auditing

Appropriations

Business expenses

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Food industry and services

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Government studies and investigations

Government trust funds

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Small Business Administration

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2022-03-30
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-08-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Continuing Emergency Support for Restaurants Act</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. </p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2675 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 A BILL To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase appropriations to Restaurant Revitalization Fund, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Continuing Emergency Support for Restaurants Act . 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.