Strengthening Local Coronavirus Response Act

II 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 3767 To require States to pass-through 45 percent of the amounts paid from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local governments that did not receive a direct payment from the Fund. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 19, 2020 Mr. DAINES introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To require States to pass-through 45 percent of the amounts paid from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to local govern- ments that did not receive a direct payment from the Fund. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening Local 4 Coronavirus Response Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:17 Jun 11, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3767.IS S3767 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 2 •S 3767 IS SEC. 2. PASS-THROUGH OF PORTION OF STATE CORONAVI- 1 RUS RELIEF FUND TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 2 (a) PASS-THROUGH REQUIREMENT.—Subsection (b) 3 of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by sec- 4 tion 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 5 Security Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended— 6 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Subject to 7 paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to para- 8 graphs (2) and (3)’’; and 9 (2) by adding at the end the following 10 ‘‘(3) PASS-THROUGH REQUIREMENT.—Each 11 State shall distribute 45 percent of the amount paid 12 to the State under this section for fiscal year 2020 13 (after the application of paragraph (2)) upon receipt 14 on a pass-through basis, and without requiring any 15 application, to each unit of local government in the 16 State that is not a large unit of local government 17 that received a direct payment under this section in 18 accordance with paragraph (2). The preceding dis- 19 tribution requirement shall not apply to the District 20 of Columbia.’’. 21 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 601 of 22 such Act is further amended— 23 (1) in subsection (b)— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:17 Jun 11, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3767.IS S3767 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 3 •S 3767 IS (A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting 1 ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of local government’’ each 2 place it appears; and 3 (B) in paragraph (2)— 4 (i) in the paragraph heading, by in- 5 serting ‘‘LARGE’’ before ‘‘UNITS’’; and 6 (ii) by adding at the end the fol- 7 lowing: ‘‘For purposes of this section, the 8 term ‘large unit of local government’ 9 means a unit of local government, as de- 10 fined in subsection (g)(2), with a popu- 11 lation that exceeds 500,000.’’; 12 (2) in subsection (c)(5)— 13 (A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting 14 ‘‘LARGE’’ before ‘‘UNIT’’; and 15 (B) by inserting ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of 16 local government’’ each place it appears; 17 (3) in subsection (e)— 18 (A) by inserting ‘‘direct’’ before ‘‘pay- 19 ment’’; and 20 (B) by inserting ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of 21 local government’’ each place it appears; and 22 (4) in subsection (g)(2)— 23 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 24 ‘‘LOCAL’’ and inserting ‘‘UNIT OF LOCAL’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:17 Jun 11, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3767.IS S3767 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 4 •S 3767 IS (B) by striking ‘‘with a population that ex- 1 ceeds 500,000.’’ 2 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 3 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact- 4 ment of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added 5 by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 6 Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136). 7 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:17 Jun 11, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S3767.IS S3767 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS