S. 3947 (116th Congress) — Higher education emergency relief fund flexibility
Summary
S. 3947, the Coronavirus Relief Flexibility for Students and Institutions Act, was introduced June 11, 2020 by Mr. Kaine and referred to Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It is a bill to amend the provisions relating to the higher education emergency relief fund to clarify the flexibility provided to institutions and for students. Institutions could use funds to defray expenses, including lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, technology costs, faculty and staff training, and payroll. Eligibility and selection of students receiving grants would be determined solely by each institution.
Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used
- Issuer
- Congressional materials
- Document type
- Bills Bills 116S3947Is Bills 116S3947Is
- Case
- Bills Bills 116S3947Is Bills 116S3947Is
Cite this document
“S. 3947 (116th Congress) — Higher education emergency relief fund flexibility.”
Original at www.govinfo.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/bills-bills-116s3947is-bills-116s3947is/
, SHA-256 3ea77ddc38d4a7c84d62dd62bbe254406644be99f81617416b7ac7b426d6f99a.Full text
II
116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
S. 3947
To amend the provisions relating to the higher education emergency relief
fund to clarify the flexibility provided to institutions and for students
under the fund, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 11, 2020
Mr. KAINE introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To amend the provisions relating to the higher education
emergency relief fund to clarify the flexibility provided
to institutions and for students under the fund, and
for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coronavirus Relief
5 Flexibility for Students and Institutions Act’’.
pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS
VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:51 Jun 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3947.IS S3947
2
1 SEC. 2. HIGHER EDUCATION RELIEF FUND.
2 Section 18004 of division B of the Coronavirus Aid,
3 Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136)
4 is amended—
5 (1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ‘‘deter-
6 mines have the’’ and inserting ‘‘determines, through
7 an application process, demonstrate the’’;
8 (2) in subsection (c)—
9 (A) by striking ‘‘cover any costs associated
10 with significant changes to the delivery of in-
11 struction due to the coronavirus’’ and inserting
12 ‘‘defray expenses (including lost revenue, reim-
13 bursement for expenses already incurred, tech-
14 nology costs associated with a transition to dis-
15 tance education, faculty and staff training, and
16 payroll)’’;
17 (B) by striking ‘‘Institutions’’ and insert-
18 ing ‘‘Notwithstanding any provision of the
19 Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001
20 et seq.), institutions’’; and
21 (C) by inserting ‘‘, with the eligibility and
22 selection of the students receiving such grants
23 being determined solely by each such institu-
24 tion’’ before the period at the end; and
pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS
25 (3) in subsection (d)(1)—
•S 3947 IS
VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:51 Jun 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3947.IS S3947
3
1 (A) by inserting ‘‘determining grant recipi-
2 ents and’’ after ‘‘In’’; and
3 (B) by inserting ‘‘, by application under
4 such section 18004(a)(3),’’ after ‘‘dem-
5 onstrates’’.
Æ
pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS •S 3947 IS
VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:51 Jun 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S3947.IS S3947
File and source
- File
- BILLS_bills-116s3947is_bills-116s3947is.pdf
- Size
- 231,593 bytes
- SHA-256
- 3ea77ddc38d4a7c84d62dd62bbe254406644be99f81617416b7ac7b426d6f99a
- Original
- www.govinfo.gov