S. 3954, Local Government Relief Act
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S. 3954 was introduced in the Senate on June 11, 2020, by Manchin and referred to the Committee on Finance. It may be cited as the Local Government Relief Act. Section 2 amends subsection (b) of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, to require that not later than June 30, each State make a distribution to each unit of local government that is not a large unit of local government that received a direct payment. The amounts are to be distributed upon receipt, on a pass-through basis, and without requiring any application from a unit of local government.
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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
S. 3954
To require States to make distributions from the State’s Coronavirus Relief
Fund payment to local governments that did not receive a direct payment
from the Fund.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 11, 2020
Mr. MANCHIN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To require States to make distributions from the State’s
Coronavirus Relief Fund payment to local governments
that did not receive a direct payment from the Fund.
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 ‘‘Local Government Re-
5 lief Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. DEADLINE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF THE LOCAL GOV-
2 ERNMENT SHARE OF THE STATE CORONAVI-
3 RUS RELIEF FUND PAYMENT.
4 (a) PASS-THROUGH REQUIREMENT.—Subsection (b)
5 of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by sec-
6 tion 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
7 Security Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended by adding
8 at the end the following new paragraph:
9 ‘‘(3) PASS-THROUGH REQUIREMENT.—
10 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than June
11 30, 2020, each State (other than the District of
12 Columbia) shall make, from the amount paid to
13 the State under this section, a distribution to
14 each unit of local government in the State that
15 is not a large unit of local government that re-
16 ceived a direct payment under this section in
17 accordance with paragraph (2).
18 ‘‘(B) AMOUNT TO BE DISTRIBUTED.—The
19 total amount of the distributions made by a
20 State to units of local government under this
21 paragraph shall not be less than 45 percent of
22 the amount paid to the State under this section
23 for fiscal year 2020 (after the application of
24 paragraph (2)).
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25 ‘‘(C) MANNER OF DISTRIBUTION.—
26 Amounts distributed by a State under this
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1 paragraph shall be distributed from the amount
2 paid to the State under this section—
3 ‘‘(i) upon receipt and on a pass-
4 through-basis; and
5 ‘‘(ii) without requiring any application
6 from a unit of local government.
7 ‘‘(D) REPORT.—If a State is unable to
8 make distributions to units of local government
9 in accordance with the requirements of this
10 paragraph, the State shall submit a detailed re-
11 port to the Secretary explaining why the State
12 is unable to meet such requirements. The Sec-
13 retary shall publish each such report in the
14 Federal Register.’’.
15 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 601 of
16 such Act is further amended—
17 (1) in subsection (b)—
18 (A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting
19 ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of local government’’ each
20 place it appears; and
21 (B) in paragraph (2)—
22 (i) in the paragraph heading, by in-
23 serting ‘‘LARGE’’ before ‘‘UNITS’’; and
24 (ii) by adding at the end the fol-
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25 lowing: ‘‘For purposes of this section, the
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1 term ‘large unit of local government’
2 means a unit of local government, as de-
3 fined in subsection (g)(2), with a popu-
4 lation that exceeds 500,000.’’;
5 (2) in subsection (c)(5)—
6 (A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting
7 ‘‘LARGE’’ before ‘‘UNIT’’; and
8 (B) by inserting ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of
9 local government’’ each place it appears;
10 (3) in subsection (d), by inserting ‘‘or distribu-
11 tion’’ after ‘‘payment’’;
12 (4) in subsection (e)—
13 (A) by inserting ‘‘direct’’ before ‘‘pay-
14 ment’’; and
15 (B) by inserting ‘‘large’’ before ‘‘unit of
16 local government’’ each place it appears; and
17 (5) in subsection (g)(2)—
18 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking
19 ‘‘LOCAL’’ and inserting ‘‘UNIT OF LOCAL’’; and
20 (B) by striking ‘‘with a population that ex-
21 ceeds 500,000.’’
22 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
23 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact-
24 ment of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added
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1 by section 5001(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
2 Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136).
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