DIVISION A—CORONAVIRUS RECOVERY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2020
The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOP9 MENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES
11 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
12 AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
13 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, $2,500,000, to remain available until September 16 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided, That the funding made available under this heading in this Act shall be used for conducting audits and investigations of projects and activities carried out with funds made available to the Department of Agriculture to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided further, That such amount is des24 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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3 DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS
4 FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE
5 CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Child Nutrition Pro7 grams’’, $3,000,000,000 to remain available until Sep8 tember 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided, That the amount provided under this heading is for the purposes of carrying out section 180002 of the ‘‘Child Nu12 trition and Related Programs Recovery Act’’: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec15 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer16 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
17 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC)
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Special Supple20 mental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Chil21 dren’’, $1,100,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2022: Provided, That such amount is des23 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re24 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal25 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Supplemental Nutri3 tion Assistance Program’’, $10,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
10 COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Commodity Assistance Program’’, $150,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2021, for the emergency food assistance program as authorized by section 27(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)) and section 204(a)(1) of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508(a)(1)): Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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21 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
SEC. 10101. For an additional amount for the Com23 monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, $1,822,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, for nutrition assistance to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. SEC. 10102. Under the heading ‘‘Commodity Assistance Program’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136), strike ‘‘to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally,’’: Provided, That the amounts repurposed in this section that were previously designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an emer14 gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. SEC. 10103. For an additional amount for the program established under 7 U.S.C. 5936, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, $20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 TITLE II—COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES
3 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
4 BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
5 CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Current Surveys and Programs’’, $10,000,000: Provided, That such sums may be transferred to the Bureau of the Census Working Capital Fund for necessary expenses incurred as a result of the coronavirus, including for payment of salaries and leave to Bureau of the Census staff resulting from the suspension of data collection for reimbursable surveys conducted for other Federal agencies: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Periodic Censuses and Programs’’, $400,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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3 NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
5 ASSISTANCE TO FISHERY PARTICIPANTS
Pursuant to section 12005 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 (Public Law 116–136), for an additional amount for ‘‘Assistance to Fishery Participants’’, $100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, for necessary expenses to provide assistance to Tribal, subsistence, commercial, and charter fishery participants affected by the novel
coronavirus (COVID–19), which may include direct relief payments: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur16 suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
19 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in23 cluding the impact of coronavirus on the work of the De24 partment of Commerce and to carry out investigations and audits related to the funding made available for the De
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1 partment of Commerce in this Act and in title II of divi2 sion B of Public Law 116–136: Provided, That such
3 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
4 emergency requirement pursuant to section
5 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
6 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
7 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—DEPARTMENT OF
8 COMMERCE
9 SEC. 10201. Notwithstanding any other provision of
10 law, the Federal share for grants provided by the Eco11 nomic Development Administration under this Act, Public
12 Law 116–93, Public Law 116–20, and Public Law 116–
13 136 shall be 100 percent: Provided, That the amounts
14 repurposed in this section that were previously designated
15 by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
16 to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
17 Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an emer18 gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
19 the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
20 of 1985.
21 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
22 FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM
23 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
24 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex25 penses’’, $200,000,000, to remain available until Sep
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1 tember 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
2 coronavirus, including the impact of coronavirus on the
3 work of the Department of Justice, to include funding for
4 medical testing and services, personal protective equip5 ment, hygiene supplies and services, and sanitation serv6 ices: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
7 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
8 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
9 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
10 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
11 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector
12 General’’, $3,000,000, to remain available until expended
13 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in14 cluding the impact of coronavirus on the work of the De15 partment of Justice and to carry out investigations and
16 audits related to the funding made available for the De17 partment of Justice in this Act: Provided, That such
18 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
19 emergency requirement pursuant to section
20 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
21 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
2 OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
3 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND
4 PROSECUTION PROGRAMS
5 For an additional amount for ‘‘Violence Against
6 Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs’’,
7 $100,000,000, to remain available until expended, of
8 which—
9 (1) $30,000,000 is for grants to combat vio10 lence against women, as authorized by part T of the
11 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Acts of
12 1968;
13 (2) $15,000,000 is for transitional housing as14 sistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dat15 ing violence, stalking, or sexual assault, as author16 ized by section 40299 of the Violent Crime Control
17 and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law
18 103–322; ‘‘1994 Act’’);
19 (3) $15,000,000 is for sexual assault victims
20 assistance, as authorized by section 41601 of the
21 1994 Act;
22 (4) $10,000,000 is for rural domestic violence
23 and child abuse enforcement assistance grants, as
24 authorized by section 40295 of the 1994 Act;
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1 (5) $10,000,000 is for legal assistance for vic2 tims, as authorized by section 1201 of the Victims
3 of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
4 (Public Law 106–386; ‘‘2000 Act’’);
5 (6) $4,000,000 is for grants to assist tribal gov6 ernments in exercising special domestic violence
7 criminal jurisdiction, as authorized by section 904 of
8 the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of
9 2013; and
10 (7) $16,000,000 is for grants to support fami11 lies in the justice system, as authorized by section
12 1301 of the 2000 Act:
13 Provided, That funds made available under this heading
14 shall be made available without any otherwise applicable
15 requirement that a recipient of such funds provide any
16 other Federal funds, or any non-Federal funds, as a condi17 tion to receive the funds made available under this head18 ing: Provided further, That such amount is designated by
19 the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur20 suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
21 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
23 STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
24 For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law
25 Enforcement Assistance’’, $300,000,000, to remain avail
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1 able until expended, for the same purposes and subject
2 to the same conditions as the appropriations for fiscal year
3 2020 under this heading in title II of division B of Public
4 Law 116–136, including for the purchase of personal pro5 tective equipment, and for costs related to preventing and
6 controlling coronavirus at correctional institutions: Pro7 vided, That, notwithstanding section 502(a)(1) of the Om8 nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34
9 U.S.C. 10153), funds provided under this heading in both
10 this Act and title II of division B of Public Law 116–
11 136 may be used to supplant State or local funds: Pro12 vided further, That funds made available under this head13 ing in both this Act and title II of division B of Public
14 Law 116–136 shall be made available without any other15 wise applicable requirement that a recipient of such funds
16 provide any other Federal funds, or any non-Federal
17 funds, as a condition to receive the funds made available
18 under such heading: Provided further, That such amount
19 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
20 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
21 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
22 1985.
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law
24 Enforcement Assistance’’, $250,000,000, to remain avail25 able until expended, for offender reentry programs and re
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1 search, as authorized by the Second Chance Act of 2007
2 (Public Law 110–199) and by the Second Chance Reau3 thorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391), without
4 regard to the time limitations specified at section 6(1) of
5 such Act, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
6 coronavirus: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other
7 provision of law, funds provided under this heading may
8 be used to supplant State or local funds: Provided further,
9 That funds made available under this heading shall be
10 made available without any otherwise applicable require11 ment that a recipient of such funds provide any other Fed12 eral funds, or any non-Federal funds, as a condition to
13 receive the funds made available under this heading: Pro14 vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con15 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
16 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
17 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law
19 Enforcement Assistance’’, $600,000,000, to remain avail20 able until expended, for grants, contracts, cooperative
21 agreements, and other assistance as authorized by the
22 Pandemic Justice Response Act (‘‘the Act’’): Provided,
23 That $500,000,000 is to establish and implement policies
24 and procedures to prevent, detect, and stop the presence
25 and spread of COVID–19 among arrestees, detainees, in
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1 mates, correctional facility staff, and visitors to the facili2 ties; and for pretrial citation and release grants, as au3 thorized by the Act: Provided further, That $25,000,000
4 is for Rapid COVID–19 Testing, as authorized by the Act:
5 Provided further, That $75,000,000 is for grants for Juve6 nile Specific Services, as authorized by the Act: Provided
7 further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
8 funds provided under this heading may be used to sup9 plant State or local funds: Provided further, That funds
10 made available under this heading shall be made available
11 without any otherwise applicable requirement that a re12 cipient of such funds provide any other Federal funds, or
13 any non-Federal funds, as a condition to receive the funds
14 made available under this heading: Provided further, That
15 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
16 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES
20 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Community Oriented
22 Policing Services’’, $300,000,000, to remain available
23 until expended, for grants under section 1701 of title I
24 of the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
25 (34 U.S.C. 10381) for hiring and rehiring of additional
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1 career law enforcement officers under part Q of such title,
2 notwithstanding subsection (i) of such section, and includ3 ing for the purchase of personal protective equipment:
4 Provided, That, notwithstanding 34 U.S.C. 10384, funds
5 provided under this heading may be used to supplant
6 State or local funds and may be used to retain career law
7 enforcement officers: Provided further, That funds made
8 available under this heading shall be made available with9 out any otherwise applicable requirement that a recipient
10 of such funds provide any other Federal funds, or any
11 non-Federal funds, as a condition to receive the funds
12 made available under this heading: Provided further, That
13 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
14 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
15 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
16 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
17 SCIENCE
18 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
19 RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
20 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Research and Related
22 Activities’’, $125,000,000, to remain available until Sep23 tember 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
24 coronavirus, including to fund research grants, of which
25 $1,000,000 shall be for a study on the spread of COVID–
1 19 related disinformation: Provided further, That, within
2 the amount appropriated under this heading in this Act,
3 up to 2 percent of funds may be transferred to the ‘‘Agen4 cy Operations and Award Management’’ account for man5 agement, administration, and oversight of funds provided
6 under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such
7 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
8 emergency requirement pursuant to section
9 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
10 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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11 RELATED AGENCIES
12 LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
13 PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
14 For an additional amount for ‘‘Payment to the Legal
15 Services Corporation’’, $50,000,000, for the same pur16 poses and subject to the same conditions as the appropria17 tions for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title II
18 of division B of Public Law 116–136: Provided, That such
19 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
20 emergency requirement pursuant to section
21 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
22 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 TITLE III—FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL
2 GOVERNMENT
3 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
4 DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
5 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
6 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex8 penses’’, $35,000,000, to remain available until expended,
9 to conduct monitoring and oversight of the receipt, dis10 bursement, and use of funds made available under the
11 ‘‘Coronavirus State Fiscal Relief Fund’’ and the
12 ‘‘Coronavirus Local Fiscal Relief Fund’’ (collectively,
13 ‘‘Fiscal Relief Funds’’): Provided, That, if the Inspector
14 General of the Department of the Treasury determines
15 that an entity receiving a payment from amounts provided
16 by the Fiscal Relief Funds has failed to comply with the
17 provisions governing the use of such funding, the Inspec18 tor General shall transmit any relevant information re19 lated to such determination to the Committees on Appro20 priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
21 not later than 5 days after any such determination is
22 made: Provided further, That such amount is designated
23 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
24 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg25 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX
2 ADMINISTRATION
3 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex5 penses’’, $2,500,000, to remain available until expended,
6 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, do7 mestically or internationally: Provided, That such amount
8 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
9 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
10 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
11 1985.
12 HOMEOWNER ASSISTANCE FUND
13 For activities and assistance authorized in section
14 110202 of the ‘‘COVID–19 HERO Act’’ ,
15 $75,000,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro16 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
17 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec18 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer19 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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20 BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE
21 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex23 penses’’, $78,650,000, to remain available until September
24 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
25 coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided,
1 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
2 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
3 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
4 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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5 CORONAVIRUS STATE FISCAL RELIEF FUND
For making payments to States, territories, and Tribal governments to mitigate the fiscal effects stemming from the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), $540,000,000,000 to remain available until expended, which shall be in addition to any other amounts available for making payments to States, territories, and Tribal governments for any pur13 pose (including payments made under section 601 of the Social Security Act), of which:
(1) $20,000,000,000 shall be for making payments to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa: Provided, That of the amount made available in this paragraph, half shall be allocated equally among each entity specified in this paragraph, and half shall be allocated as an additional amount to each such entity in an amount which bears the same proportion to half of the total amount provided under this paragraph as the relative population of each such entity bears to the total population of all such entities;
(2) $20,000,000,000 shall be for making payments to Tribal governments: Provided, That payments of amounts made available in this paragraph shall be made to each Tribal Government in an amount determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior and Indian Tribes, that is based on increased aggregate expendi12 tures of each such Tribal government (or a trib13 ally-owned entity of such Tribal government) in fiscal year 2020 relative to aggregate expendi15 tures in fiscal year 2019 by the Tribal govern16 ment (or tribally-owned entity) and determined in such manner as the Secretary determines ap18 propriate to ensure that all amounts available pursuant to the preceding proviso for fiscal year 2020 are distributed to Tribal governments:
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(3) $250,000,000,000 shall be for making initial payments to each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia, of which—
(A) $51,000,000,000 shall be al2 located equally between each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia;
(B) $150,000,000,000 shall be allocated as an additional amount to each such entity in an amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount provided under this subparagraph as the relative population of each such entity bears to the total population of all such entities;
(C) $49,000,000,000 shall be allocated as additional amounts among each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia in an amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount provided under this subparagraph as the relative prevalence of COVID–19 within each such entity bears to the total prevalence of COVID–19 within all such entities: Provided, That the relative prevalence 23 of COVID–19 shall be calculated using the most recent data on the number of confirmed and probable cases as published on the Internet by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for each entity specified in the preceding proviso;
(4) $250,000,000,000 shall be for making an additional payment to each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia, of which—
(A) $51,000,000,000 shall be allocated equally between each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia; and
(B) $199,000,000,000 shall be allocated between each such entity in an additional amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount provided under this subparagraph as the average estimated number of seasonally16 adjusted unemployed individuals (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics program) in each such entity over the 3-month period ending in March 2021 bears to the average estimated number of seasonally-adjusted unemployed individuals in all such entities over the same period. Provided further, That any entity receiving a payment from funds made available under this heading in this Act shall only use such amounts to respond to, mitigate, cover costs or replace foregone revenues not projected on January 31, 2020 stemming from the public health emergency, or its negative economic impacts, with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19): Provided further, That if the Inspector General of the Department of the Treas6 ury determines that an entity receiving a payment from amounts provided under this heading has failed to comply with the preceding proviso, the amount equal to the amount of funds used in violation of such subsection shall be booked as a debt of such entity owed to the Federal Government, and any amounts recovered under this subsection shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury as discretionary offsetting receipts: Provided fur14 ther, That for purposes of the preceding provisos under this heading in this Act, the population of each entity de16 scribed in any such proviso shall be determined based on the most recent year for which data are available from the Bureau of the Census, or in the case of an Indian tribe, shall be determined based on data certified by the Tribal government: Provided further, That as used under this heading in this Act, the terms ‘‘Tribal government’’ and ‘‘Indian Tribe’’ have the same meanings as specified in section 601(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601(g)), as added by section 5001 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) and amended by section 191301 of division X of this Act, and the term ‘‘State’’ means one of the 50 States: Provided further, That the Secretary of Treasury shall make all payments required pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and shall make all pay6 ments required pursuant to paragraph (4) not later than May 3, 2021: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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11 CORONAVIRUS LOCAL FISCAL RELIEF FUND
For making payments to metropolitan cities, counties, and other units of general local government to mitigate the fiscal effects stemming from the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), $375,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, which shall be in addition to any other amounts available for making payments to metropolitan cities, counties, and other units of general local government (in20 cluding payments made under section 601 of the Social Security Act), of which—
(1) $187,500,000,000 shall be for making pay23 ments to metropolitan cities and other units of gen24 eral local government (as those terms are defined in 1 section 102 of the Housing and Community Devel2 opment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)), of which—
(A) $131,250,000,000 shall be allocated pursuant to the formula under section 106(b)(1) of the Housing and Community De6 velopment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(b)(1)) to metropolitan cities (as defined in section 102(a)(4) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)(4)), including metropolitan cities that have relin10 quished or deferred their status as a metropoli11 tan city as of the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided, That $87,500,000,000 of the funds provided under this subparagraph shall be paid not later than 30 days after the date of enact15 ment of this Act:
Provided further, That $43,750,000,000 of the funds provided under this subparagraph shall be paid not earlier than April 15, 2021, but not later than May 3, 2021; and
(B) $56,250,000,000 shall be distributed to each State (as that term is defined in section 102 of the Housing and Community Develop23 ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) for use by units of general local government, other than counties or parishes, in nonentitlement areas (as defined in such section 102) of such States in an amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount provided under this sub4 paragraph as the total population of such units of general local government within the State bears to the total population of all such units of general local government in all such States:
Provided, That two-thirds of the funds provided under this subparagraph and allocated to each such unit of general local government shall be distributed to each such unit of general local government not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided further, That the remainder of the funds provided under this subparagraph and allocated to each such unit of general local government shall be distributed to each such unit of general local government not earlier than April 15, 2021, but not later than May 3, 2021:
Provided further, That a State shall pass-through the amounts received under this subparagraph, within 30 days of receipt, to each such unit of general local government in an amount that bears the same proportion to the amount distributed to each such State as the population of such unit of general local government bears to the total population of all such units of general local gov3 ernment within each such State: Provided fur4 ther, That if a State has not elected to distribute amounts allocated under this paragraph, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay the applicable amounts under this subparagraph to such units of general local government in the State not later than 30 days after the date on which the State would otherwise have received the amounts from the Secretary; and
(2) $187,500,000,000 shall be paid directly to counties within the 50 States, the District of Colum14 bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of
16 the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa in an amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount provided under this paragraph as the relative population of each such county bears to the total population of all such entities:
Provided, That two-thirds of the funds provided under this paragraph and allocated to each such county shall be distributed to each such county not later than 24 days after the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided further, That the remainder of the amount allocated to each such county under this paragraph shall be distributed to each such county not earlier than April 15, 2021, but not later than May 3, 2021:
Provided further, That no county that is an ‘‘urban county’’ (as defined in section 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) shall receive less than the amount the county would otherwise receive if the amount distributed under this paragraph were allocated to metropolitan cities and urban counties under section 106(b) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(b)):
Provided further, That in the case of an amount to be paid to a coun14 ty that is not a unit of general local government, the amount shall instead be paid to the State in which such county is located, and such State shall dis17 tribute such amount to units of general local govern18 ment within such county in an amounts that bear the same proportion as the population of such units of general local government bear to the total popu21 lation of such county:
Provided further, That any entity receiving a payment from funds made available under this heading in this Act shall only use such amounts to respond to, mitigate, cover costs or replace foregone revenues not projected on January 31, 2020 stemming from the public health emergency, or its negative economic impacts, with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19):
Provided further, That if the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury determines that an entity receiving a payment from amounts provided under this heading has failed to comply with the preceding proviso, the amount equal to the amount of funds used in violation of such subsection shall be booked as a debt of such entity owed to the Federal Government, and any amounts recovered under this sub11 section shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury as discretionary offsetting receipts:
Provided further, That nothing in paragraph (1) or (2) shall be con14 strued as prohibiting a unit of general local government that has formed a consolidated government, or that is geographically contained (in full or in part) within the boundaries of another unit of general local government from receiving a distribution under each of subparagraphs (A) and (B) under paragraph (1) or under paragraph (2), as applicable, based on the respective formulas specified con21 tained therein:
Provided further, That the amounts otherwise determined for distribution to units of local government under each of subparagraphs (A) and (B) under paragraph (1) and under paragraph (2) shall each be adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury on a pro rata basis
1 to the extent necessary to comply with the amount appro2 priated and the requirements specified in each paragraph
3 and subparagraph, as applicable: Provided further, That
4 as used under this heading in this Act, the term ‘‘county’’
5 means a county, parish, or other equivalent county divi6 sion (as defined by the Bureau of the Census): Provided
7 further, That for purposes of the preceding provisos under
8 this heading in this Act, the population of an entity shall
9 be determined based on the most recent year for which
10 data are available from the Bureau of the Census: Pro11 vided further, That such amount is designated by Congress
12 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec13 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer14 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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15 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
16 FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
17 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
18 For an additional amount for the ‘‘Community Devel19 opment Financial Institutions Fund Program Account’’,
20 $1,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
21 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus:
22 Provided, That the Community Development Financial In23 stitutions Fund (CDFI) shall provide grants using a for24 mula that takes into account criteria such as certification
25 status, financial and compliance performance, portfolio
1 and balance sheet strength, and program capacity: Pro2 vided further, That no less than $25,000,000 may be for
3 financial assistance, technical assistance, and training and
4 outreach programs designed to benefit Native American,
5 Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native communities: Pro6 vided further, That the CDFI Fund shall make funds
7 available under this subsection within 60 days of the date
8 of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That funds
9 made available under this heading may be used for admin10 istrative expenses, including administration of CDFI
11 Fund programs and the New Markets Tax Credit Pro12 gram: Provided further, That such amount is designated
13 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
14 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg15 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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16 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—INTERNAL REVENUE
17 SERVICE
18 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
19 SEC. 10301. In addition to the amounts otherwise
20 available to the Internal Revenue Service in fiscal year
21 2020, $520,000,000, to remain available until September
22 30, 2021, shall be available to prevent, prepare for, and
23 respond to coronavirus, including for costs associated with
24 the extended filing season: Provided, That such funds may
25 be transferred by the Commissioner to the ‘‘Taxpayer
1 Services’’, ‘‘Enforcement’’, or ‘‘Operations Support’’ ac2 counts of the Internal Revenue Service for an additional
3 amount to be used solely to prevent, prepare for, and re4 spond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Pro5 vided further, That the Committees on Appropriations of
6 the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be noti7 fied in advance of any such transfer: Provided further,
8 That such transfer authority is in addition to any other
9 transfer authority provided by law: Provided further, That
10 not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this
11 Act, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committees on
12 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
13 Senate a spending plan for such funds: Provided further,
14 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
15 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
16 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
17 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
ELECTION RESILIENCE GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for payments by the Election Assistance Commission to States for contingency planning, preparation, and resilience of elections for Federal office, $3,600,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021:
Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to and merged with ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Salaries and Expenses’’: Provided further, That under this heading the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Provided further, That the amount of the payments made to a State under this heading shall be consistent with section 103 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 20903): Provided further, That for the purposes of the preceding proviso, each reference to ‘‘$5,000,000’’ in such section 103 shall be deemed to refer to ‘‘$7,500,000’’: Provided further, That not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Election Assistance Commission shall obligate the funds to States under this heading in this Act:
Provided further, That not less than 50 percent of the amount of the payment made to a State under this heading in this Act shall be allocated in cash or in kind to the units of local government which are responsible for the administration of elections for Federal office in the State: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
SEC. 10302.
(a) The last proviso under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the Financial Services and General Govern8 ment Appropriations Act, 2020 (division C of Public Law 116–93; 133 Stat. 2461) shall not apply with respect to any payment made to a State using funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Election Assistance Commission under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco13 nomic Security Act (Public Law 116–136).
(b) The first proviso under the heading ‘‘Election As15 sistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub17 lic Law 116–136) is amended by striking ‘‘within 20 days of each election in the 2020 Federal election cycle in that State,’’ and inserting ‘‘not later than October 30, 2021,’’.
(c) The fourth proviso under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub23 lic Law 116–136) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2021’’.
(d) Notwithstanding any requirement that a State legislature appropriate and release any funds made avail3 able under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the chief election official of each State shall have access to the funds made available under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub8 lic Law 116–136) without any such action by the State legislature.
(e) A State may elect to reallocate funds allocated 11 under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance Commission— Election Security Grants’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136) as funds allocated under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2020 (division C of Public Law 116–93; 133 Stat. 2461) that were spent to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the 2020 Federal election cycle; or funds allocated under the head21 ing ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Reform Program’’ in the Financial Services and Government Ap23 propriations Act, 2018 (division E of Public Law 115–141) that were spent to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the 2020 Federal election cycle.
(f) This section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136).
(g) The amounts repurposed in this section that were previously designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer9 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, $24,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, for implementing title VIII of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 641 et seq.), as added by the Broadband DATA Act (Public Law 116–130): Pro20 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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EMERGENCY CONNECTIVITY FUND
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Emergency Connectivity Fund’’, $1,500,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, through the provision of funding for Wi-fi hotspots, other equipment, connected devices, and advanced telecommuni8 cations and information services to schools and libraries as authorized in section 130201:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
EMERGENCY BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY FUND
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Emergency Broadband Connectivity Fund’’, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, through the provision of an emergency benefit for broadband service as authorized in section 130301:
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
2 TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION FUND
3 For an additional amount for the ‘‘Technology Mod4 ernization Fund’’, $1,000,000,000, to remain available
5 until September 30, 2022, for technology-related mod6 ernization activities to prevent, prepare for, and respond
7 to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided,
8 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
9 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
10 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
11 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
13 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex16 penses’’, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended
17 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, do18 mestically or internationally: Provided, That such amount
19 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
20 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
21 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
22 1985.
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1 SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
2 EMERGENCY EIDL GRANTS
3 For an additional amount for ‘‘Emergency EIDL
4 Grants’’ for the cost of emergency EIDL grants author5 ized by section 1110 of division A of the CARES Act
6 (Public Law 116–136), $10,000,000,000, to remain avail7 able until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond
8 to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided,
9 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
10 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
11 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
12 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
13 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—SMALL BUSINESS
14 ADMINISTRATION
15 SEC. 10303. (a) The third proviso under the heading
16 ‘‘Small Business Administration—Business Loans Pro17 gram Account’’ the Financial Services and General Gov18 ernment Appropriations Act, 2020 (division C of Public
19 Law 116–93) is amended by striking ‘‘$30,000,000,000’’
20 and inserting ‘‘$75,000,000,000’’.
21 (b) The sixth proviso under the heading ‘‘Small Busi22 ness Administration—Business Loans Program Account’’
23 the Financial Services and General Government Appro24 priations Act, 2020 (division C of Public Law 116–93)
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1 is amended by striking ‘‘$12,000,000,000’’ and inserting
2 ‘‘$35,000,000,000’’.
3 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
4 PAYMENT TO POSTAL SERVICE FUND
5 For an additional payment to the ‘‘Postal Service
6 Fund’’, for revenue forgone due to coronavirus,
7 $25,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
8 2022: Provided, That the Postal Service, during the
9 coronavirus emergency, shall prioritize the purchase of,
10 and make available to all Postal Service employees and
11 facilities, personal protective equipment, including gloves,
12 masks, and sanitizers, and shall conduct additional clean13 ing and sanitizing of Postal Service facilities and delivery
14 vehicles: Provided further, That such amount is designated
15 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
16 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg17 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
19 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex21 penses’’, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended,
22 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, do23 mestically or internationally: Provided, That such amount
24 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
25 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
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1 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
2 1985.
3 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
4 SEC. 10304. (a) Title V of division B of the CARES
5 Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended in the first proviso
6 under the heading ‘‘Independent Agencies—Pandemic Re7 sponse Accountability Committee’’ by inserting ‘‘or any
8 other Act (including Acts other than appropriations
9 Acts)’’ after ‘‘provided in this Act’’.
10 (b) Amounts repurposed under this section that were
11 previously designated by the Congress, respectively, as an
12 emergency requirement or as being for disaster relief pur13 suant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
14 Control Act are designated by the Congress as being for
15 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
16 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
17 Deficit Control Act of 1985 or as being for disaster relief
18 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget
19 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 SEC. 10305. Title V of division B of the CARES Act
21 (Public Law 116–136) is amended by striking the fifth
22 proviso under the heading ‘‘General Services Administra23 tion—Real Property Activities—Federal Buildings
24 Fund’’: Provided, That the amounts repurposed in this
25 section that were previously designated by the Congress
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1 as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are
3 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
4 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg5 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 SEC. 10306. For an additional amount for ‘‘Depart7 ment of the Treasury—Departmental Offices—
8 Coronavirus Relief Fund’’, an amount equal to—
9 (1) $1,250,000,000; less
10 (2) the amount allocated for the District of Co11 lumbia pursuant to section 601(c)(6) of the Social
12 Security Act:
13 Provided, That such amounts shall only be available for
14 making a payment to the District of Columbia, and shall
15 be in addition to any other funds available for such pur16 pose: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury
17 shall pay all amounts provided by this section directly to
18 the District of Columbia not less than 5 days after the
19 date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the
20 District of Columbia shall use such amounts only to cover
21 costs or replace foregone revenues stemming from the pub22 lic health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Dis23 ease (COVID–19): Provided further, That such amount is
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1 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 TITLE IV—HOMELAND SECURITY
4 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
5 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
6 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations and Sup8 port’’, $3,000,000, to remain available until September
9 30, 2022, for oversight of activities of the Department of
10 Homeland Security funded in this Act and in title VI of
11 division B of Public Law 116–136 to prevent, prepare for,
12 and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount
13 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
14 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
15 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
16 1985.
17 FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
18 FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
19 For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal Assistance’’,
20 $1,300,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
21 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,
22 of which $500,000,000 shall be for Assistance to Fire23 fighter Grants for the purchase of personal protective
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1 tion or sanitizing facilities and equipment; of which
2 $500,000,000 shall be for Staffing for Adequate Fire and
3 Emergency Response Grants; of which $100,000,000 shall
4 be for Emergency Management Performance Grants; and
5 of which $200,000,000 shall be for the Emergency Food
6 and Shelter Program: Provided, That such amount is des7 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re8 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal9 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
10 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
11 SEC. 10401. Notwithstanding any other provision of
12 law, funds made available under ‘‘Federal Emergency
13 Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’ shall only be
14 used for the purposes specifically described under that
15 heading.
16 SEC. 10402. (a) Subsections (c)(2), (f), (g)(1),
17 (h)(1)–(4), (h)(6), and (k) of section 33 of the Federal
18 Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C.
19 2229) shall not apply to amounts appropriated for ‘‘Fed20 eral Emergency Management Agency – Federal Assist21 ance’’ for Assistance to Firefighter Grants in this Act and
22 in division D, title III of the Consolidated Appropriations
23 Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–93).
24 (b) Subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire
25 Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229)
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1 shall not apply to Amounts provided for ‘‘Federal Emer2 gency Management Agency–Federal Assistance’’ for As3 sistance to Firefighter Grants in title VI of division B of
4 Public Law 116–136.
5 (c) Amounts repurposed under this section that were
6 previously designated by the Congress, respectively, as an
7 emergency requirement or as being for disaster relief pur8 suant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
9 Control Act are designated by the Congress as being for
10 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
11 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
12 Deficit Control Act of 1985 or as being for disaster relief
13 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget
14 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 SEC. 10403. Subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B),
16 (a)(1)(E), (a)(1)(G), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section
17 34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974
18 (15 U.S.C. 2229a) shall not apply to amounts appro19 priated for ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency –
20 Federal Assistance’’ for Staffing for Adequate Fire and
21 Emergency Response Grants in this Act and in division
22 D, title III of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
23 (Public Law 116–93).
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1 TITLE V—INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND
2 RELATED AGENCIES
3 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
4 UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
5 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
6 For an additional amount for ‘‘Resource Manage7 ment’’, $21,000,000, to remain available until expended
8 for research; listing injurious species; electronic permitting
9 system development; operation and maintenance; law en10 forcement interdiction and inspections; and other support
11 activities, as described in sections 190402, 190403, and
12 190404 of division S of this Act: Provided, That amounts
13 may be transferred to ‘‘Surveys, Investigations and Re14 search’’ in the United States Geological Survey; ‘‘National
15 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’’ in the Depart16 ment of Commerce; and the ‘‘Center for Disease Control’’
17 in the Department of Health and Human Services: Pro18 vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con19 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
20 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
21 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Tribal
24 Wildlife Grants’’, $50,000,000, to remain available until
25 expended, for a onetime grant program to remain available
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1 until expended, as described in section 190405 of division
2 S of this Act: Provided, That such amount is designated
3 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
4 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg5 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
7 SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Surveys, Investiga9 tions, and Research’’, $40,000,000, to remain available
10 until September 30, 2021, for technical assistance, bio11 surveillance of wildlife and environmental persistence
12 studies and related research, database development, and
13 accompanying activities as described in section 190404 of
14 division S of this Act: Provided, That such amount is des15 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re16 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal17 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
19 OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation of Indian
21 Programs’’, $900,000,000, to remain available until Sep22 tember 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
23 coronavirus, of which—
24 (1) $100,000,000 shall be for housing improve25 ment;
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1 (2) $780,000,000 shall be for providing Tribal
2 government services, for Tribal government em3 ployee salaries to maintain operations, and cleaning
4 and sanitization of Tribally owned and operated fa5 cilities; and
6 (3) $20,000,000 shall be used to provide and
7 deliver potable water; and,
8 Provided, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall
9 be obligated until 3 days after the Bureau of Indian Af10 fairs provides a detailed spend plan, which includes dis11 tribution and use of funds by Tribe, to the Committees
12 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
13 Senate: Provided further, That the Bureau shall notify the
14 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent15 atives and the Senate quarterly on the obligations and ex16 penditures of the funds provided by this Act: Provided fur17 ther, That assistance received herein shall not be included
18 in the calculation of funds received by those Tribal govern19 ments who participate in the ‘‘Small and Needy’’ program:
20 Provided further, That such amounts, if transferred to In21 dian Tribes and Tribal organizations under the Indian
22 Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1) will
23 be transferred on a one-time basis, (2) are non-recurring
24 funds that are not part of the amount required by 25
25 U.S.C. 5325, and (3) may only be used for the purposes
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1 identified under this heading in this Act, notwithstanding
2 any other provision of law: Provided further, That section
3 11008 of this Act shall not apply to tribal contracts en4 tered into by the Bureau of Indian Affairs with this appro5 priation: Provided further, That such amount is designated
6 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
7 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg8 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
9 DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
10 INSULAR AFFAIRS
11 ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
12 For an additional amount for ‘‘Assistance to Terri13 tories’’, $1,000,000,000, to remain available until ex14 pended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
15 coronavirus, of which (1) $945,000,000 is for Capital Im16 provement Project grants for hospitals and other critical
17 infrastructure; and (2) $55,000,000 is for territorial as18 sistance, including general technical assistance: Provided,
19 That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this
20 heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may
21 be used as non-Federal matching funds for the purpose
22 of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section
23 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer24 gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c): Provided further,
25 That amounts repurposed in this section that were preVerDate Mar 15 2010 12:13 May 12, 2020 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\MSJOYNER\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL.0\GEN\C\HEROES.X
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1 viously designated by the Congress as an emergency re2 quirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer3 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the
4 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec5 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer6 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That
7 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
8 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
9 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
10 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
11 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
12 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
13 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex14 penses’’ , $5,000,000, to remain available until expended:
15 Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
16 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec17 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer18 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
20 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Environmental Pro22 grams and Management’’, $50,000,000, to remain avail23 able until September 30, 2021, for environmental justice
24 grants to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus:
25 Provided, That such amount shall be used to monitor or
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1 study links between pollution exposure and the trans2 mission and health outcomes of coronavirus as described
3 in section 190702 of division S of this Act: Provided fur4 ther, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
5 being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
6 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
7 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
9 SERVICES
10 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
11 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
12 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
13 For an additional amount for ‘‘Indian Health Serv14 ices’’, $2,100,000,000, to remain available until expended,
15 to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and provide health
16 services related to coronavirus, of which—
17 (1) $1,000,000,000 shall be used to supplement
18 reduced third party revenue collections;
19 (2) $500,000,000 shall be used for direct health
20 and telehealth services, including to purchase sup21 plies and personal protective equipment;
22 (3) $140,000,000 shall be used to expand
23 broadband infrastructure and information tech24 nology for telehealth and electronic health record
25 system purposes;
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1 (4) $20,000,000 shall be used to address the
2 needs of domestic violence victims and homeless indi3 viduals and families;
4 (5) not less than $64,000,000 shall be for
5 Urban Indian Organizations; and,
6 (6) not less than $10,000,000 shall be used to
7 provide and deliver potable water:
8 Provided, That such funds shall be allocated at the discre9 tion of the Director of the Indian Health Service: Provided
10 further, That of the funds provided herein, not less than
11 $366,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with
12 ‘‘Indian Health Service—Indian Health Facilities’’ at the
13 discretion of the Director to modify existing health facili14 ties to provide isolation or quarantine space, to purchase
15 and install updated equipment necessary, and for mainte16 nance and improvement projects necessary to the purposes
17 specified in this Act: Provided further, That such amounts
18 may be used to supplement amounts otherwise available
19 for such purposes under ‘‘Indian Health Facilities’’: Pro20 vided further, That such amounts, if transferred to Tribes
21 and Tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Deter22 mination and Education Assistance Act, will be trans23 ferred on a one-time basis and that these non-recurring
24 funds are not part of the amount required by 25 U.S.C.
25 5325, and that such amounts may only be used for the
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1 purposes identified under this heading notwithstanding
2 any other provision of law: Provided further, That none
3 of the funds appropriated herein for telehealth broadband
4 activities shall be available for obligation until 3 days after
5 the Indian Health Service provides to the Committees on
6 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
7 Senate, a detailed spend plan that includes the cost, loca8 tion, and expected completion date of each activity: Pro9 vided further, That the Indian Health Service shall notify
10 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep11 resentatives and the Senate quarterly on the obligations
12 and expenditures of the funds provided by this Act: Pro13 vided further, That section 11008 of this Act shall not
14 apply to tribal contracts entered into by the Bureau of
15 Indian Affairs with this appropriation: Provided further,
16 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
17 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
18 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
19 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
21 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
22 GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants and Adminis24 tration’’, $10,000,000 to remain available until September
25 30, 2021, for grants to respond to the impacts of
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1 coronavirus: Provided, That such funds are available
2 under the same terms and conditions as grant funding ap3 propriated to this heading in Public Law 116–94: Pro4 vided further, That 40 percent of such funds shall be dis5 tributed to State arts agencies and regional arts organiza6 tions and 60 percent of such funds shall be for direct
7 grants: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
8 provision of law, such funds may also be used by the re9 cipients of such grants for purposes of the general oper10 ations of such recipients: Provided further, That the
11 matching requirements under subsections (e), (g)(4)(A),
12 and (p)(3) of section 5 of the National Foundation on the
13 Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 954) may
14 be waived with respect to such grants: Provided further,
15 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
16 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
20 GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants and Adminis22 tration’’, $10,000,000 to remain available until September
23 30, 2021, for grants to respond to the impacts of
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1 propriated to this heading in Public Law 116–94: Pro2 vided further, That 40 percent of such funds shall be dis3 tributed to state humanities councils and 60 percent of
4 such funds shall be for direct grants: Provided further,
5 That notwithstanding any other provision of law, such
6 funds may also be used by the recipients of such grants
7 for purposes of the general operations of such recipients:
8 Provided further, That the matching requirements under
9 subsection (h)(2)(A) of section 7 of the National Founda10 tion on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 may be
11 waived with respect to such grants: Provided further, That
12 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
13 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
14 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
15 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
16 TITLE VI—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH
17 AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION,
18 AND RELATED AGENCIES
19 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
20 EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
21 TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
22 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘Training and Employ24 ment Services’’, $2,040,000,000, to prevent, prepare for,
25 and respond to coronavirus, of which $15,000,000 shall
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1 be transferred to ‘‘Program Administration’’ to carry out
2 activities in this Act, Public Law 116–127 and Public Law
3 116–136 for full-time equivalent employees, information
4 technology upgrades needed to expedite payments and
5 support implementation, including to expedite policy guid6 ance and disbursement of funds, technical assistance and
7 other assistance to States and territories to speed payment
8 of Federal and State unemployment benefits,and of which
9 the remaining amounts shall be used to carry out activities
10 under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (re11 ferred to in this Act as ‘‘WIOA’’) as follows:
12 (1) $485,000,000 for grants to the States for
13 adult employment and training activities, including
14 incumbent worker trainings, transitional jobs, on15 the-job training, individualized career services, sup16 portive services, needs-related payments, and to fa17 cilitate remote access to training services provided
18 through a one-stop delivery system through the use
19 of technology, to remain available until June 30,
20 2021: Provided, That an adult shall not be required
21 to meet the requirements of section 134(c)(3)(B) of
22 the WIOA: Provided further, That an adult who
23 meets the requirements described in section
24 2102(a)(3)(A) of Public Law 116–136 may be eligi25 ble for participation: Provided further, That priority
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1 may be given to individuals who are adversely im2 pacted by economic changes due to the coronavirus,
3 including individuals seeking employment, dislocated
4 workers, individuals with barriers to employment, in5 dividuals who are unemployed, or individuals who
6 are underemployed;
7 (2) $518,000,000 for grants to the States for
8 youth activities, including supportive services, sum9 mer employment for youth, and to facilitate remote
10 access to training services provided through a one11 stop delivery system through the use of technology,
12 to remain available until June 30, 2021: Provided,
13 That individuals described in section 2102(a)(3)(A)
14 of Public Law 116–136 may be eligible for participa15 tion as an out-of-school youth if they meet the re16 quirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of section
17 129(a)(1)(B) or as in-school youth if they meet the
18 requirements of clauses (i) and (iii) of section
19 129(a)(1)(C) of the WIOA; Provided further, That
20 priority shall be given for out-of-school youth and
21 youth with multiple barriers to employment: Pro22 vided further, That funds shall support employer
23 partnerships for youth employment and subsidized
24 employment, and partnerships with community25 based organizations to support such employment;
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1 tember 30, 2021: Provided, That of the amount provided
2 under this heading, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred
3 to and merged with ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—
4 Salaries and Expenses’’: Provided further, That under this
5 heading the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 States,
6 the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
7 Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin
8 Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
9 Islands: Provided further, That the amount of the pay10 ments made to a State under this heading shall be con11 sistent with section 103 of the Help America Vote Act of
12 2002 (52 U.S.C. 20903): Provided further, That for the
13 purposes of the preceding proviso, each reference to
14 ‘‘$5,000,000’’ in such section 103 shall be deemed to refer
15 to ‘‘$7,500,000’’: Provided further, That not later than 30
16 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Election
17 Assistance Commission shall obligate the funds to States
18 under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That not
19 less than 50 percent of the amount of the payment made
20 to a State under this heading in this Act shall be allocated
21 in cash or in kind to the units of local government which
22 are responsible for the administration of elections for Fed23 eral office in the State: Provided further, That such
24 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
25 emergency requirement pursuant to section
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1 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
2 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—ELECTION ASSISTANCE
4 COMMISSION
5 SEC. 10302. (a) The last proviso under the heading
6 ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Security
7 Grants’’ in the Financial Services and General Govern8 ment Appropriations Act, 2020 (division C of Public Law
9 116–93; 133 Stat. 2461) shall not apply with respect to
10 any payment made to a State using funds appropriated
11 or otherwise made available to the Election Assistance
12 Commission under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco13 nomic Security Act (Public Law 116–136).
14 (b) The first proviso under the heading ‘‘Election As15 sistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the
16 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub17 lic Law 116–136) is amended by striking ‘‘within 20 days
18 of each election in the 2020 Federal election cycle in that
19 State,’’ and inserting ‘‘not later than October 30, 2021,’’.
20 (c) The fourth proviso under the heading ‘‘Election
21 Assistance Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the
22 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub23 lic Law 116–136) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31,
24 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2021’’.
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1 (d) Notwithstanding any requirement that a State
2 legislature appropriate and release any funds made avail3 able under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the chief
4 election official of each State shall have access to the funds
5 made available under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance
6 Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the
7 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub8 lic Law 116–136) without any such action by the State
9 legislature.
10 (e) A State may elect to reallocate funds allocated
11 under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—
12 Election Security Grants’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
13 and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136) as
14 funds allocated under the heading ‘‘Election Assistance
15 Commission—Election Security Grants’’ in the Financial
16 Services and General Government Appropriations Act,
17 2020 (division C of Public Law 116–93; 133 Stat. 2461)
18 that were spent to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
19 coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the 2020
20 Federal election cycle; or funds allocated under the head21 ing ‘‘Election Assistance Commission—Election Reform
22 Program’’ in the Financial Services and Government Ap23 propriations Act, 2018 (division E of Public Law 115–
24 141) that were spent to prevent, prepare for, and respond
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1 to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the
2 2020 Federal election cycle.
3 (f) This section shall take effect as if included in the
4 enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
5 Security Act (Public Law 116–136).
6 (g) The amounts repurposed in this section that were
7 previously designated by the Congress as an emergency
8 requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer9 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the
10 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec11 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer12 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
13 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex16 penses’’, $24,000,000, to remain available until September
17 30, 2021, for implementing title VIII of the Communica18 tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 641 et seq.), as added by
19 the Broadband DATA Act (Public Law 116–130): Pro20 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
21 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec22 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer23 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 EMERGENCY CONNECTIVITY FUND
2 For an additional amount for the ‘‘Emergency
3 Connectivity Fund’’, $1,500,000,000, to remain available
4 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re5 spond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally,
6 through the provision of funding for Wi-fi hotspots, other
7 equipment, connected devices, and advanced telecommuni8 cations and information services to schools and libraries
9 as authorized in section 130201: Provided, That such
10 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
11 emergency requirement pursuant to section
12 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
13 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 EMERGENCY BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY FUND
15 For an additional amount for the ‘‘Emergency
16 Broadband Connectivity Fund’’, $4,000,000,000, to re17 main available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, pre18 pare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or
19 internationally, through the provision of an emergency
20 benefit for broadband service as authorized in section
21 130301: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
22 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
23 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
24 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
2 TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION FUND
3 For an additional amount for the ‘‘Technology Mod4 ernization Fund’’, $1,000,000,000, to remain available
5 until September 30, 2022, for technology-related mod6 ernization activities to prevent, prepare for, and respond
7 to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided,
8 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
9 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
10 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
11 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
13 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex16 penses’’, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended
17 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, do18 mestically or internationally: Provided, That such amount
19 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
20 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
21 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
22 1985.
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1 SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
2 EMERGENCY EIDL GRANTS
3 For an additional amount for ‘‘Emergency EIDL
4 Grants’’ for the cost of emergency EIDL grants author5 ized by section 1110 of division A of the CARES Act
6 (Public Law 116–136), $10,000,000,000, to remain avail7 able until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond
8 to coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided,
9 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
10 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
11 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
12 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
13 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—SMALL BUSINESS
14 ADMINISTRATION
15 SEC. 10303. (a) The third proviso under the heading
16 ‘‘Small Business Administration—Business Loans Pro17 gram Account’’ the Financial Services and General Gov18 ernment Appropriations Act, 2020 (division C of Public
19 Law 116–93) is amended by striking ‘‘$30,000,000,000’’
20 and inserting ‘‘$75,000,000,000’’.
21 (b) The sixth proviso under the heading ‘‘Small Busi22 ness Administration—Business Loans Program Account’’
23 the Financial Services and General Government Appro24 priations Act, 2020 (division C of Public Law 116–93)
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1 is amended by striking ‘‘$12,000,000,000’’ and inserting
2 ‘‘$35,000,000,000’’.
3 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
4 PAYMENT TO POSTAL SERVICE FUND
5 For an additional payment to the ‘‘Postal Service
6 Fund’’, for revenue forgone due to coronavirus,
7 $25,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
8 2022: Provided, That the Postal Service, during the
9 coronavirus emergency, shall prioritize the purchase of,
10 and make available to all Postal Service employees and
11 facilities, personal protective equipment, including gloves,
12 masks, and sanitizers, and shall conduct additional clean13 ing and sanitizing of Postal Service facilities and delivery
14 vehicles: Provided further, That such amount is designated
15 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
16 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg17 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
19 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex21 penses’’, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended,
22 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, do23 mestically or internationally: Provided, That such amount
24 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
25 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
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1 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
2 1985.
3 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
4 SEC. 10304. (a) Title V of division B of the CARES
5 Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended in the first proviso
6 under the heading ‘‘Independent Agencies—Pandemic Re7 sponse Accountability Committee’’ by inserting ‘‘or any
8 other Act (including Acts other than appropriations
9 Acts)’’ after ‘‘provided in this Act’’.
10 (b) Amounts repurposed under this section that were
11 previously designated by the Congress, respectively, as an
12 emergency requirement or as being for disaster relief pur13 suant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
14 Control Act are designated by the Congress as being for
15 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
16 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
17 Deficit Control Act of 1985 or as being for disaster relief
18 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget
19 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 SEC. 10305. Title V of division B of the CARES Act
21 (Public Law 116–136) is amended by striking the fifth
22 proviso under the heading ‘‘General Services Administra23 tion—Real Property Activities—Federal Buildings
24 Fund’’: Provided, That the amounts repurposed in this
25 section that were previously designated by the Congress
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1 as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are
3 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
4 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg5 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 SEC. 10306. For an additional amount for ‘‘Depart7 ment of the Treasury—Departmental Offices—
8 Coronavirus Relief Fund’’, an amount equal to—
9 (1) $1,250,000,000; less
10 (2) the amount allocated for the District of Co11 lumbia pursuant to section 601(c)(6) of the Social
12 Security Act:
13 Provided, That such amounts shall only be available for
14 making a payment to the District of Columbia, and shall
15 be in addition to any other funds available for such pur16 pose: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury
17 shall pay all amounts provided by this section directly to
18 the District of Columbia not less than 5 days after the
19 date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the
20 District of Columbia shall use such amounts only to cover
21 costs or replace foregone revenues stemming from the pub22 lic health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Dis23 ease (COVID–19): Provided further, That such amount is
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1 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 TITLE IV—HOMELAND SECURITY
4 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
5 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
6 OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations and Sup8 port’’, $3,000,000, to remain available until September
9 30, 2022, for oversight of activities of the Department of
10 Homeland Security funded in this Act and in title VI of
11 division B of Public Law 116–136 to prevent, prepare for,
12 and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount
13 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
14 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
15 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
16 1985.
17 FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
18 FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
19 For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal Assistance’’,
20 $1,300,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
21 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,
22 of which $500,000,000 shall be for Assistance to Fire23 fighter Grants for the purchase of personal protective
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1 tion or sanitizing facilities and equipment; of which
2 $500,000,000 shall be for Staffing for Adequate Fire and
3 Emergency Response Grants; of which $100,000,000 shall
4 be for Emergency Management Performance Grants; and
5 of which $200,000,000 shall be for the Emergency Food
6 and Shelter Program: Provided, That such amount is des7 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re8 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal9 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
10 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
11 SEC. 10401. Notwithstanding any other provision of
12 law, funds made available under ‘‘Federal Emergency
13 Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’ shall only be
14 used for the purposes specifically described under that
15 heading.
16 SEC. 10402. (a) Subsections (c)(2), (f), (g)(1),
17 (h)(1)–(4), (h)(6), and (k) of section 33 of the Federal
18 Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C.
19 2229) shall not apply to amounts appropriated for ‘‘Fed20 eral Emergency Management Agency – Federal Assist21 ance’’ for Assistance to Firefighter Grants in this Act and
22 in division D, title III of the Consolidated Appropriations
23 Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–93).
24 (b) Subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire
25 Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229)
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1 shall not apply to Amounts provided for ‘‘Federal Emer2 gency Management Agency–Federal Assistance’’ for As3 sistance to Firefighter Grants in title VI of division B of
4 Public Law 116–136.
5 (c) Amounts repurposed under this section that were
6 previously designated by the Congress, respectively, as an
7 emergency requirement or as being for disaster relief pur8 suant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
9 Control Act are designated by the Congress as being for
10 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
11 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
12 Deficit Control Act of 1985 or as being for disaster relief
13 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget
14 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 SEC. 10403. Subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B),
16 (a)(1)(E), (a)(1)(G), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section
17 34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974
18 (15 U.S.C. 2229a) shall not apply to amounts appro19 priated for ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency –
20 Federal Assistance’’ for Staffing for Adequate Fire and
21 Emergency Response Grants in this Act and in division
22 D, title III of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
23 (Public Law 116–93).
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1 TITLE V—INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND
2 RELATED AGENCIES
3 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
4 UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
5 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
6 For an additional amount for ‘‘Resource Manage7 ment’’, $21,000,000, to remain available until expended
8 for research; listing injurious species; electronic permitting
9 system development; operation and maintenance; law en10 forcement interdiction and inspections; and other support
11 activities, as described in sections 190402, 190403, and
12 190404 of division S of this Act: Provided, That amounts
13 may be transferred to ‘‘Surveys, Investigations and Re14 search’’ in the United States Geological Survey; ‘‘National
15 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’’ in the Depart16 ment of Commerce; and the ‘‘Center for Disease Control’’
17 in the Department of Health and Human Services: Pro18 vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con19 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
20 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
21 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Tribal
24 Wildlife Grants’’, $50,000,000, to remain available until
25 expended, for a onetime grant program to remain available
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1 until expended, as described in section 190405 of division
2 S of this Act: Provided, That such amount is designated
3 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
4 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg5 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
7 SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Surveys, Investiga9 tions, and Research’’, $40,000,000, to remain available
10 until September 30, 2021, for technical assistance, bio11 surveillance of wildlife and environmental persistence
12 studies and related research, database development, and
13 accompanying activities as described in section 190404 of
14 division S of this Act: Provided, That such amount is des15 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re16 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal17 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
19 OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation of Indian
21 Programs’’, $900,000,000, to remain available until Sep22 tember 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
23 coronavirus, of which—
24 (1) $100,000,000 shall be for housing improve25 ment;
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1 (2) $780,000,000 shall be for providing Tribal
2 government services, for Tribal government em3 ployee salaries to maintain operations, and cleaning
4 and sanitization of Tribally owned and operated fa5 cilities; and
6 (3) $20,000,000 shall be used to provide and
7 deliver potable water; and,
8 Provided, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall
9 be obligated until 3 days after the Bureau of Indian Af10 fairs provides a detailed spend plan, which includes dis11 tribution and use of funds by Tribe, to the Committees
12 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
13 Senate: Provided further, That the Bureau shall notify the
14 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent15 atives and the Senate quarterly on the obligations and ex16 penditures of the funds provided by this Act: Provided fur17 ther, That assistance received herein shall not be included
18 in the calculation of funds received by those Tribal govern19 ments who participate in the ‘‘Small and Needy’’ program:
20 Provided further, That such amounts, if transferred to In21 dian Tribes and Tribal organizations under the Indian
22 Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1) will
23 be transferred on a one-time basis, (2) are non-recurring
24 funds that are not part of the amount required by 25
25 U.S.C. 5325, and (3) may only be used for the purposes
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1 identified under this heading in this Act, notwithstanding
2 any other provision of law: Provided further, That section
3 11008 of this Act shall not apply to tribal contracts en4 tered into by the Bureau of Indian Affairs with this appro5 priation: Provided further, That such amount is designated
6 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
7 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg8 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
9 DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
10 INSULAR AFFAIRS
11 ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
12 For an additional amount for ‘‘Assistance to Terri13 tories’’, $1,000,000,000, to remain available until ex14 pended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
15 coronavirus, of which (1) $945,000,000 is for Capital Im16 provement Project grants for hospitals and other critical
17 infrastructure; and (2) $55,000,000 is for territorial as18 sistance, including general technical assistance: Provided,
19 That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this
20 heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may
21 be used as non-Federal matching funds for the purpose
22 of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section
23 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer24 gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c): Provided further,
25 That amounts repurposed in this section that were preVerDate Mar 15 2010 12:13 May 12, 2020 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\MSJOYNER\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL.0\GEN\C\HEROES.X
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1 viously designated by the Congress as an emergency re2 quirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer3 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the
4 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec5 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer6 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That
7 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
8 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
9 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
10 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
11 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
12 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
13 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex14 penses’’ , $5,000,000, to remain available until expended:
15 Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
16 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec17 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer18 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
20 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Environmental Pro22 grams and Management’’, $50,000,000, to remain avail23 able until September 30, 2021, for environmental justice
24 grants to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus:
25 Provided, That such amount shall be used to monitor or
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1 study links between pollution exposure and the trans2 mission and health outcomes of coronavirus as described
3 in section 190702 of division S of this Act: Provided fur4 ther, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
5 being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
6 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
7 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
9 SERVICES
10 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
11 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
12 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
13 For an additional amount for ‘‘Indian Health Serv14 ices’’, $2,100,000,000, to remain available until expended,
15 to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and provide health
16 services related to coronavirus, of which—
17 (1) $1,000,000,000 shall be used to supplement
18 reduced third party revenue collections;
19 (2) $500,000,000 shall be used for direct health
20 and telehealth services, including to purchase sup21 plies and personal protective equipment;
22 (3) $140,000,000 shall be used to expand
23 broadband infrastructure and information tech24 nology for telehealth and electronic health record
25 system purposes;
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1 (4) $20,000,000 shall be used to address the
2 needs of domestic violence victims and homeless indi3 viduals and families;
4 (5) not less than $64,000,000 shall be for
5 Urban Indian Organizations; and,
6 (6) not less than $10,000,000 shall be used to
7 provide and deliver potable water:
8 Provided, That such funds shall be allocated at the discre9 tion of the Director of the Indian Health Service: Provided
10 further, That of the funds provided herein, not less than
11 $366,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with
12 ‘‘Indian Health Service—Indian Health Facilities’’ at the
13 discretion of the Director to modify existing health facili14 ties to provide isolation or quarantine space, to purchase
15 and install updated equipment necessary, and for mainte16 nance and improvement projects necessary to the purposes
17 specified in this Act: Provided further, That such amounts
18 may be used to supplement amounts otherwise available
19 for such purposes under ‘‘Indian Health Facilities’’: Pro20 vided further, That such amounts, if transferred to Tribes
21 and Tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Deter22 mination and Education Assistance Act, will be trans23 ferred on a one-time basis and that these non-recurring
24 funds are not part of the amount required by 25 U.S.C.
25 5325, and that such amounts may only be used for the
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1 purposes identified under this heading notwithstanding
2 any other provision of law: Provided further, That none
3 of the funds appropriated herein for telehealth broadband
4 activities shall be available for obligation until 3 days after
5 the Indian Health Service provides to the Committees on
6 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
7 Senate, a detailed spend plan that includes the cost, loca8 tion, and expected completion date of each activity: Pro9 vided further, That the Indian Health Service shall notify
10 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep11 resentatives and the Senate quarterly on the obligations
12 and expenditures of the funds provided by this Act: Pro13 vided further, That section 11008 of this Act shall not
14 apply to tribal contracts entered into by the Bureau of
15 Indian Affairs with this appropriation: Provided further,
16 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
17 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
18 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
19 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
21 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
22 GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants and Adminis24 tration’’, $10,000,000 to remain available until September
25 30, 2021, for grants to respond to the impacts of
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1 coronavirus: Provided, That such funds are available
2 under the same terms and conditions as grant funding ap3 propriated to this heading in Public Law 116–94: Pro4 vided further, That 40 percent of such funds shall be dis5 tributed to State arts agencies and regional arts organiza6 tions and 60 percent of such funds shall be for direct
7 grants: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
8 provision of law, such funds may also be used by the re9 cipients of such grants for purposes of the general oper10 ations of such recipients: Provided further, That the
11 matching requirements under subsections (e), (g)(4)(A),
12 and (p)(3) of section 5 of the National Foundation on the
13 Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 954) may
14 be waived with respect to such grants: Provided further,
15 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
16 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
20 GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants and Adminis22 tration’’, $10,000,000 to remain available until September
23 30, 2021, for grants to respond to the impacts of
24 coronavirus: Provided, That such funds are available
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1 propriated to this heading in Public Law 116–94: Pro2 vided further, That 40 percent of such funds shall be dis3 tributed to state humanities councils and 60 percent of
4 such funds shall be for direct grants: Provided further,
5 That notwithstanding any other provision of law, such
6 funds may also be used by the recipients of such grants
7 for purposes of the general operations of such recipients:
8 Provided further, That the matching requirements under
9 subsection (h)(2)(A) of section 7 of the National Founda10 tion on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 may be
11 waived with respect to such grants: Provided further, That
12 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
13 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
14 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
15 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
16 TITLE VI—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH
17 AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION,
18 AND RELATED AGENCIES
19 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
20 EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
21 TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
22 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘Training and Employ24 ment Services’’, $2,040,000,000, to prevent, prepare for,
25 and respond to coronavirus, of which $15,000,000 shall
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1 be transferred to ‘‘Program Administration’’ to carry out
2 activities in this Act, Public Law 116–127 and Public Law
3 116–136 for full-time equivalent employees, information
4 technology upgrades needed to expedite payments and
5 support implementation, including to expedite policy guid6 ance and disbursement of funds, technical assistance and
7 other assistance to States and territories to speed payment
8 of Federal and State unemployment benefits,and of which
9 the remaining amounts shall be used to carry out activities
10 under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (re11 ferred to in this Act as ‘‘WIOA’’) as follows:
12 (1) $485,000,000 for grants to the States for
13 adult employment and training activities, including
14 incumbent worker trainings, transitional jobs, on15 the-job training, individualized career services, sup16 portive services, needs-related payments, and to fa17 cilitate remote access to training services provided
18 through a one-stop delivery system through the use
19 of technology, to remain available until June 30,
20 2021: Provided, That an adult shall not be required
21 to meet the requirements of section 134(c)(3)(B) of
22 the WIOA: Provided further, That an adult who
23 meets the requirements described in section
24 2102(a)(3)(A) of Public Law 116–136 may be eligi25 ble for participation: Provided further, That priority
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1 may be given to individuals who are adversely im2 pacted by economic changes due to the coronavirus,
3 including individuals seeking employment, dislocated
4 workers, individuals with barriers to employment, in5 dividuals who are unemployed, or individuals who
6 are underemployed;
7 (2) $518,000,000 for grants to the States for
8 youth activities, including supportive services, sum9 mer employment for youth, and to facilitate remote
10 access to training services provided through a one11 stop delivery system through the use of technology,
12 to remain available until June 30, 2021: Provided,
13 That individuals described in section 2102(a)(3)(A)
14 of Public Law 116–136 may be eligible for participa15 tion as an out-of-school youth if they meet the re16 quirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of section
17 129(a)(1)(B) or as in-school youth if they meet the
18 requirements of clauses (i) and (iii) of section
19 129(a)(1)(C) of the WIOA; Provided further, That
20 priority shall be given for out-of-school youth and
21 youth with multiple barriers to employment: Pro22 vided further, That funds shall support employer
23 partnerships for youth employment and subsidized
24 employment, and partnerships with community25 based organizations to support such employment;
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1 may be given to individuals who are adversely im2 pacted by economic changes due to the coronavirus,
3 including individuals seeking employment, dislocated
4 workers, individuals with barriers to employment, in5 dividuals who are unemployed, or individuals who
6 are underemployed;
7 (2) $518,000,000 for grants to the States for
8 youth activities, including supportive services, sum9 mer employment for youth, and to facilitate remote
10 access to training services provided through a one11 stop delivery system through the use of technology,
12 to remain available until June 30, 2021: Provided,
13 That individuals described in section 2102(a)(3)(A)
14 of Public Law 116–136 may be eligible for participa15 tion as an out-of-school youth if they meet the re16 quirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of section
17 129(a)(1)(B) or as in-school youth if they meet the
18 requirements of clauses (i) and (iii) of section
19 129(a)(1)(C) of the WIOA; Provided further, That
20 priority shall be given for out-of-school youth and
21 youth with multiple barriers to employment: Pro22 vided further, That funds shall support employer
23 partnerships for youth employment and subsidized
24 employment, and partnerships with community25 based organizations to support such employment;
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1 (3) $597,000,000 for grants to States for dis2 located worker employment and training activities,
3 including incumbent worker trainings, transitional
4 jobs, on-the-job training, individualized career serv5 ices, supportive services, needs-related payments,
6 and to facilitate remote access to training services
7 provided through a one-stop delivery system through
8 the use of technology, to remain available until June
9 30, 2021: Provided, That a dislocated worker shall
10 not be required to meet the requirements of section
11 134(c)(3)(B) of the WIOA: Provided further, That a
12 dislocated worker who meets the requirements de13 scribed in section 2102(a)(3)(A) of Public Law 116–
14 136 may be eligible for participation;
15 (4) $400,000,000 for the dislocated workers as16 sistance national reserve to remain available until
17 September 30, 2023; and
18 (5) $25,000,000 for migrant and seasonal
19 farmworker programs under section 167 of the
20 WIOA, including emergency supportive services, to
21 remain available until June 30, 2021, of which no
22 less than $500,000 shall be for the collection and
23 dissemination of electronic and printed materials re24 lated to coronavirus to the migrant and seasonal
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1 farmworker population nationwide, including Puerto
2 Rico, through a cooperative agreement;
3 Provided, That the impact of the COVID–19 national
4 emergency may be considered as an additional factor for
5 reimbursement for on-the-job training under section
6 134(c)(3)(H) of the WIOA and as a factor in determining
7 the employer’s portion of the costs of providing customized
8 training under section 3(14) of the WIOA: Provided fur9 ther, That notwithstanding section 134(d)(5) of the
10 WIOA, a local board may use 40 percent of funds received
11 under paragraphs (1) and (3) for transitional jobs: Pro12 vided further, That notwithstanding section 194(10) of the
13 WIOA, that funds used to support transitional jobs may
14 also be used to support public service employment: Pro15 vided further, That sections 127(b)(1)(C)(iv)(III),
16 132(b)(1)(B)(iv)(III), and 132(b)(2)(B)(iii)(II) shall not
17 apply to funds appropriated under this heading: Provided
18 further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
19 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec20 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer21 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION
23 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
24 For an additional amount for ‘‘Wage and Hour Divi25 sion’’, $6,500,000, to remain available until September
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1 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
2 coronavirus, including for the administration, oversight,
3 and coordination of worker protection activities related
4 thereto: Provided, That the Secretary of Labor shall use
5 funds provided under this heading to support enforcement
6 activities and outreach efforts to make individuals, par7 ticularly low-wage workers, aware of their rights under di8 vision C and division E of Public Law 116–127: Provided
9 further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
10 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec11 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer12 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
13 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For an additional amount for ‘‘Occupational Safety
16 and Health Administration’’, $100,000,000, to remain
17 available until September 30, 2021, for worker protection
18 and enforcement activities to prevent, prepare for, and re19 spond to coronavirus, of which $25,000,000 shall be for
20 Susan Harwood training grants and at least $70,000,000
21 shall be to hire additional compliance safety and health
22 officers, and for state plan enforcement, to protect work23 ers from coronavirus by enforcing all applicable standards
24 and directives, including 29 CFR 1910.132, 29 CFR
25 1910.134, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and
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1 Health Act of 1970, and 29 CFR 1910.1030: Provided,
2 That activities to protect workers from coronavirus sup3 ported by funds provided under this heading includes addi4 tional enforcement of standards and directives referenced
5 in the preceding proviso at slaughterhouses, poultry proc6 essing plants, and agricultural workplaces: Provided fur7 ther, That within 15 days of the date of enactment of this
8 Act, the Secretary of Labor shall submit a spending and
9 hiring plan for the funds made available under this head10 ing, and a monthly staffing report until all funds are ex11 pended, to the Committees on Appropriations of the
12 House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur13 ther, That within 15 days of the date of enactment of this
14 Act, the Secretary of Labor shall submit a plan for the
15 additional enforcement activities described in the third
16 proviso to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
17 of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That
18 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
19 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
20 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
21 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
23 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector
24 General’’, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended,
25 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus. ProVerDate Mar 15 2010 12:13 May 12, 2020 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\MSJOYNER\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL.0\GEN\C\HEROES.X
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1 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
2 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec3 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer4 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
5 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
6 SEC. 10601. There is hereby appropriated for fiscal
7 year 2021 for ‘‘Department of Labor—Employment
8 Training Administration—State Unemployment Insur9 ance and Employment Service Operations’’, $28,600,000,
10 to be expended from the Employment Security Adminis11 tration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund (‘‘the
12 Trust Fund’’) to carry out title III of the Social Security
13 Act: Provided, That such amount shall only become avail14 able for obligation if the Average Weekly Insured Unem15 ployment (‘‘AWIU’’) for fiscal year 2021 is projected, by
16 the Department of Labor during fiscal year 2021 to ex17 ceed 1,728,000: Provided further, That to the extent that
18 the AWIU for fiscal year 2021 is projected by the Depart19 ment of Labor to exceed 1,728,000, an additional
20 $28,600,000 from the Trust Fund shall be made available
21 for obligation during fiscal year 2021 for every 100,000
22 increase in the AWIU level (including a pro rata amount
23 for any increment less than 100,000): Provided further,
24 That, except as specified in this section, amounts provided
25 herein shall be available under the same authority and
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1 conditions applicable to funds provided to carry out title
2 III of the Social Security Act under the heading ‘‘Depart3 ment of Labor—Employment Training Administration—
4 State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service
5 Operations’’ in division A of Public Law 116–94: Provided
6 further, That such amounts shall be in addition to any
7 other funds made available in any fiscal year for such pur8 poses: Provided further, That such amount is designated
9 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
10 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg11 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
13 SERVICES
14 HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
15 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
16 For an additional amount for ‘‘Primary Health
17 Care’’, $7,600,000,000, to remain available until Sep18 tember 30, 2025, for necessary expenses to prevent, pre19 pare for, and respond to coronavirus, for grants and coop20 erative agreements under the Health Centers Program, as
21 defined by section 330 of the Public Health Service Act,
22 and for grants to Federally qualified health centers, as
23 defined in section 1861(aa)(4)(B) of the Social Security
24 Act, and for eligible entities under the Native Hawaiian
25 Health Care Improvement Act, including maintenance or
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1 expansion of health center and system capacity and staff2 ing levels: Provided, That sections 330(r)(2)(B),
3 330(e)(6)(A)(iii), and 330(e)(6)(B)(iii) shall not apply to
4 funds provided under this heading in this Act: Provided
5 further, That funds provided under this heading in this
6 Act may be used to (1) purchase equipment and supplies
7 to conduct mobile testing for SARS–CoV–2 or COVID–
8 19; (2) purchase and maintain mobile vehicles and equip9 ment to conduct such testing; and (3) hire and train lab10 oratory personnel and other staff to conduct such mobile
11 testing: Provided further, That such amount is designated
12 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
13 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg14 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM
16 For an additional amount for ‘‘Ryan White HIV/
17 AIDS Program’’, $10,000,000, to remain available until
18 September 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond
19 to coronavirus: Provided, That awards from funds pro20 vided under this heading in this Act shall be through
21 modifications to existing contracts and supplements to ex22 isting grants and cooperative agreements under parts A,
23 B, C, D, F, and section 2692(a) of title XXVI of the Pub24 lic Health Service Act: Provided further, That such supple25 ments shall be awarded using a data-driven methodology
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1 determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Serv2 ices: Provided further, That sections 2604(c), 2612(b), and
3 2651(c) of the Public Health Service Act shall not apply
4 to funds provided under this heading in this Act: Provided
5 further, That the Secretary may waive any penalties and
6 administrative requirements as necessary to ensure that
7 the funds may be used efficiently: Provided further, That
8 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
9 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
10 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
11 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
13 CDC–WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT
14 For an additional amount for ‘‘CDC–Wide Activities
15 and Program Support’’, $2,130,000,000, to remain avail16 able until September 30, 2024, to prevent, prepare for,
17 and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internation18 ally: Provided, That of the amount provided under this
19 heading in this Act, $1,000,000,000 shall be for Public
20 Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreements
21 under section 319C–1 of the Public Health Service Act:
22 Provided further, That, of the amount provided under this
23 heading in this Act, $1,000,000,000 shall be for necessary
24 expenses for grants for core public health infrastructure
25 for State, local, Territorial, or Tribal health departments
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1 as described in section 30550 of division C of this Act:
2 Provided further, That of the amount made available
3 under this heading in this Act for specified programs, not
4 less than $100,000,000 shall be allocated to tribes, tribal
5 organizations, urban Indian health organizations, or
6 health service providers to tribes: Provided further, That
7 of the amount provided under this heading in this Act,
8 $130,000,000 shall be for public health data surveillance
9 and analytics infrastructure modernization: Provided fur10 ther, That funds appropriated under this heading in this
11 Act for grants may be used for the rent, lease, purchase,
12 acquisition, construction, alteration, or renovation of non13 Federally owned facilities to improve preparedness and re14 sponse capability at the State and local level: Provided fur15 ther, That all construction, alteration, or renovation work,
16 carried out, in whole or in part, with funds appropriated
17 under this heading in this Act, or under this heading in
18 the CARES ACT (P.L. 116–136), shall be subject to the
19 requirements of 42 U.S.C. 300s-1(b)(1)(I): Provided fur20 ther, That such amount is designated by the Congress as
21 being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
22 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
23 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
2 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS
3 DISEASES
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘National Institute of
5 Allergy and Infectious Diseases’’, $500,000,000, to re6 main available until September 30, 2024, to prevent, pre7 pare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That such
8 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
9 emergency requirement pursuant to section
10 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
11 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
13 For an additional amount for ‘‘National Institute of
14 Mental Health’’, $200,000,000, to remain available until
15 September 30, 2024, to prevent, prepare for, and respond
16 to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount is designated
17 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
18 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg19 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
21 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of the Direc23 tor’’, $4,021,000,000, to remain available until September
24 30, 2024, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
25 coronavirus, domestically or internationally: Provided.
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1 That not less than $3,000,000,000 of the amount provided
2 under this heading in this Act shall be for offsetting the
3 costs related to reductions in lab productivity resulting
4 from the coronavirus pandemic or public health measures
5 related to the coronavirus pandemic: Provided further,
6 That up to $1,021,000,000 of the amount provided under
7 this heading in this Act shall be to support additional sci8 entific research or the programs and platforms that sup9 port research: Provided further, That funds made available
10 under this heading in this Act may be transferred to the
11 accounts of the Institutes and Centers of the National In12 stitutes of Health (‘‘NIH’’): Provided further, That this
13 transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer au14 thority available to the NIH: Provided further, That such
15 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
16 emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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19 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
20 ADMINISTRATION
21 HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND PROGRAM SUPPORT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Health Surveillance and Program Support’’, $3,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That of the funds made available under this heading in this Act, $1,500,000,000 shall be for grants for the substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant program under subpart II of part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (‘‘PHS Act’’): Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading in this Act, $1,000,000,000 shall be for grants for the community mental health services block grant program under subpart I of part B of title XIX of the PHS Act: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading in this Act, $100,000,000 shall be for services to the homeless population: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading in this Act, $100,000,000 shall be for activities and services under Project AWARE: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading in this Act, $10,000,000 shall be for the Na17 tional Child Traumatic Stress Network: Provided further, That of the amount made available under this heading in this Act, $265,000,000 is available for activities author20 ized under section 501(o) of the Public Health Service Act: Provided further, That of the amount made available under this heading in this Act, $25,000,000 shall be for the Suicide Lifeline and Disaster Distress Helpline: Pro24 vided further, That of the amount made available under this heading in this Act for specified programs, not lessthan $150,000,000 shall be allocated to tribes, tribal orga2 nizations, urban Indian health organizations, or health or behavioral health service providers to tribes: Provided further, That the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has flexibility to amend allowable ac6 tivities, timelines, and reporting requirements for the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant and the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant pur9 suant to the public health emergency declaration: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer13 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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14 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
15 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Program Manage17 ment’’, $150,000,000, to remain available through Sep18 tember 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, for State strike teams for resident and em20 ployee safety in skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities, including activities to support clinical care, infection control, and staffing: Provided, That such amount is des23 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re24 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal25 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
1 ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2 LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Low Income Home Energy Assistance’’, $1,500,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re6 spond to coronavirus, for making payments under sub7 section (b) of section 2602 of the Low-Income Home En8 ergy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.): Pro9 vided, That of the amount provided under this heading in this Act, $750,000,000 shall be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for fiscal year 2020 was less than $1,975,000,000: Provided further, That each grantee that receives an allotment of funds made available under this heading in this Act shall, for purposes of in15 come eligibility, deem to be eligible any household that documents job loss or severe income loss dated after Feb17 ruary 29, 2020, such as a layoff or furlough notice or verification of application for unemployment benefits: Provided further, That the limitation in section 2605(b)(9)(A) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, regarding planning and administering the use of funds, shall apply to funds provided under this heading in this Act by substituting ‘‘12.5 percent’’ for ‘‘10 percent’’: Provided further, That section 2607(b)(2)(B) of such Act (42 25 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(B)) shall not apply to funds made
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1 avail
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer13 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
15 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Program Management’’, $150,000,000, to remain available through Sep18 tember 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, for State strike teams for resident and employee safety in skilled nursing facilities and nursing facili21 ties, including activities to support clinical care, infection control, and staffing: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re24 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal25 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2 LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Low Income Home Energy Assistance’’, $1,500,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re6 spond to coronavirus, for making payments under sub7 section (b) of section 2602 of the Low-Income Home En8 ergy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.): Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading in this Act, $750,000,000 shall be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for fiscal year 2020 was less than $1,975,000,000: Provided further, That each grantee that receives an allotment of funds made available under this heading in this Act shall, for purposes of in15 come eligibility, deem to be eligible any household that documents job loss or severe income loss dated after February 29, 2020, such as a layoff or furlough notice or verification of application for unemployment benefits: Provided further, That the limitation in section 2605(b)(9)(A) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, regarding planning and administering the use of funds, shall apply to funds provided under this heading in this Act by substituting ‘‘12.5 percent’’ for ‘‘10 percent’’: Provided further, That section 2607(b)(2)(B) of such Act (42 25 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(B)) shall not apply to funds made available under this heading in this Act: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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6 PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND
7 DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Payments to States
9 for the Child Care and Development Block Grant’’,
10 $7,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
11 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,
12 including for Federal administrative expenses, which shall
13 be used to supplement, not supplant State, Territory, and
14 Tribal general revenue funds for child care assistance for
15 low-income families within the United States (including
16 territories) without regard to requirements in sections
17 658E(c)(3)(D)–(E) or section 658G of the Child Care and
18 Development Block Grant Act: Provided, That funds pro19 vided under this heading in this Act may be used for costs
20 of providing relief from copayments and tuition payments
21 for families and for paying that portion of the child care
22 provider’s cost ordinarily paid through family copayments,
23 to provide continued payments and assistance to child care
24 providers in the case of decreased enrollment or closures
25 related to coronavirus, and to ensure child care providers
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1 are able to remain open or reopen as appropriate and ap2 plicable: Provided further, That States, Territories, and
3 Tribes are encouraged to place conditions on payments to
4 child care providers that ensure that child care providers
5 use a portion of funds received to continue to pay the sala6 ries and wages of staff: Provided further, That lead agen7 cies shall, for the duration of the COVID–19 public health
8 emergency, implement enrollment and eligibility policies
9 that support the fixed costs of providing child care services
10 by delinking provider reimbursement rates from an eligible
11 child’s absence and a provider’s closure due to the
12 COVID–19 public health emergency: Provided further,
13 That the Secretary shall remind States that CCDBG State
14 plans do not need to be amended prior to utilizing existing
15 authorities in the Child Care and Development Block
16 Grant Act for the purposes provided herein: Provided fur17 ther, That States, Territories, and Tribes are authorized
18 to use funds appropriated under this heading in this Act
19 to provide child care assistance to health care sector em20 ployees, emergency responders, sanitation workers, farm21 workers, and other workers deemed essential during the
22 response to coronavirus by public officials, without regard
23 to the income eligibility requirements of section 658P(4)
24 of such Act: Provided further, That funds appropriated
25 under this heading in this Act shall be available to eligible
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1 child care providers under section 658P(6) of the CCDBG
2 Act, even if such providers were not receiving CCDBG as3 sistance prior to the public health emergency as a result
4 of the coronavirus, for the purposes of cleaning and sani5 tation, and other activities necessary to maintain or re6 sume the operation of programs: Provided further, That
7 no later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this
8 Act, each State, Territory, and Tribe that receives funding
9 under this heading in this Act shall submit to the Sec10 retary a report, in such manner as the Secretary may re11 quire, describing how the funds appropriated under this
12 heading in this Act will be spent and that no later than
13 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec14 retary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations
15 of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Com16 mittee on Education and Labor of the House of Rep17 resentatives, and the Committee on Health, Education,
18 Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report summarizing
19 such reports from the States, Territories, and Tribes: Pro20 vided further, That no later than October 31, 2021, each
21 State, Territory, and Tribe that receives funding under
22 this heading in this Act shall submit to the Secretary a
23 report, in such manner as the Secretary may require, de24 scribing how the funds appropriated under this heading
25 in this Act were spent and that no later than 60 days
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1 after receiving such reports from the States, Territories,
2 and Tribes, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees
3 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
4 Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor of the
5 House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health,
6 Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report
7 summarizing such reports from the States, Territories,
8 and Tribes: Provided further, That payments made under
9 this heading in this Act may be obligated in this fiscal
10 year or the succeeding two fiscal years: Provided further,
11 That funds appropriated under this heading in this Act
12 may be made available to restore amounts, either directly
13 or through reimbursement, for obligations incurred to pre14 vent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, prior to the
15 date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such
16 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
17 emergency requirement pursuant to section
18 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
19 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Children and Families
22 Services Programs’’, $1,590,000,000, to remain available
23 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re24 spond to coronavirus, which shall be used as follows:
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1 (1) $50,000,000 for Family Violence Prevention
2 and Services grants as authorized by section 303(a)
3 and 303(b) of the Family Violence Prevention and
4 Services Act with such funds available to grantees
5 without regard to matching requirements under sec6 tion 306(c)(4) of such Act, of which $2,000,000
7 shall be for the National Domestic Violence Hotline:
8 Provided, That the Secretary of Health and Human
9 Services may make such funds available for pro10 viding temporary housing and assistance to victims
11 of family, domestic, and dating violence;
12 (2) $20,000,000 for necessary expenses for
13 community-based grants for the prevention of child
14 abuse and neglect under section 209 of the Child
15 Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which the
16 Secretary shall make without regard to sections
17 203(b)(1) and 204(4) of such Act; and
18 (3) $20,000,000 for necessary expenses for the
19 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act State
20 Grant program as authorized by Section 112 of such
21 Act;
22 (4) $1,500,000,000 for necessary expenses for
23 grants to carry out the Low-Income Household
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1 gram, as described in section 190703 of division S
2 of this Act.
3 Provided, That funds made available under this heading
4 in this Act may be used for the purposes provided herein
5 to reimburse costs incurred between January 20, 2020,
6 and the date of award: Provided further, That funds ap7 propriated by the CARES Act (P.L.116–136) to carry out
8 the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9901
9 et seq.) and received by a State shall be made available
10 to eligible entities (as defined in section 673(1)(A) of such
11 Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(1)(A)) not later than either 30 days
12 after such State receives such funds or 30 days after the
13 date of the enactment of this Act, whichever occurs later:
14 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
15 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
16 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
17 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING
19 AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAMS
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Aging and Disability
21 Services Programs’’, $100,000,000, to remain available
22 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re23 spond to the coronavirus: Provided, That of the amount
24 made available under this heading in this Act,
25 $85,000,000 shall be for activities authorized under the
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1 Older Americans Act of 1965 (‘‘OAA’’) and activities au2 thorized under part B of title XX of the Social Security
3 Act, including $20,000,000 for supportive services under
4 part B of title III; $19,000,000 for nutrition services
5 under subparts 1 and 2 of part C of title III; $1,000,000
6 for nutrition services under title VI; $20,000,000 for sup7 portive services for family caregivers under part E of title
8 III; $10,000,000 for evidence-based health promotion and
9 disease prevention services under part D of title III;
10 $10,000,000 for elder rights protection activities, includ11 ing the long-term ombudsman program under title VI; and
12 $5,000,000 shall be for grants to States to support the
13 network of statewide senior legal services, including exist14 ing senior legal hotlines, efforts to expand such hotlines
15 to all interested States, and legal assistance to providers,
16 in order to ensure seniors have access to legal assistance,
17 with such fund allotted to States consistent with para18 graphs (1) through (3) of section 304(a) of the OAA: Pro19 vided further, That State matching requirements under
20 sections 304(d)(1)(D) and 373(g)(2) of the OAA shall not
21 apply to funds made available under this heading: Pro22 vided further, That of the amount made available under
23 this heading in this Act, $10,000,000 shall be for activities
24 authorized in the Developmental Disabilities Assistance
25 and Bill of Rights Act of 2000: Provided further, That
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1 of the amount made available under this heading in this
2 Act, $5,000,000 shall be for activities authorized in the
3 Assistive Technology Act of 2004: Provided further, That
4 of the amount made available in the preceding proviso,
5 $5,000,000 shall be for the purchase of equipment to allow
6 interpreters to provide appropriate and essential services
7 to the hearing-impaired community: Provided further,
8 That for the purposes of the funding provided in the pre9 ceding proviso, during the emergency period described in
10 section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act, for pur11 poses of section 4(e)(2)(A) of the Assistive Technology Act
12 of 2004, the term ‘‘targeted individuals and entities’’ (as
13 that term is defined in section 3(16) of the Assistive Tech14 nology Act of 2004) shall be deemed to include American
15 Sign Language certified interpreters who are providing in16 terpretation services remotely for individuals with disabil17 ities: Provided further, That during such emergency pe18 riod, for the purposes of the previous two provisos, to fa19 cilitate the ability of individuals with disabilities to remain
20 in their homes and practice social distancing, the Sec21 retary shall waive the prohibitions on the use of grant
22 funds for direct payment for an assistive technology device
23 for an individual with a disability under sections
24 4(e)(2)(A) and 4(e)(5) of such Act: Provided further, That
25 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
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1 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
2 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
3 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
4 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
5 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY
6 FUND
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and So8 cial Services Emergency Fund’’, $4,575,000,000, to re9 main available until September 30, 2024, to prevent, pre10 pare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or
11 internationally, including the development of necessary
12 countermeasures and vaccines, prioritizing platform-based
13 technologies with U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities,
14 the purchase of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, nec15 essary medical supplies, as well as medical surge capacity,
16 addressing blood supply chain, workforce modernization,
17 telehealth access and infrastructure, initial advanced man18 ufacturing, novel dispensing, enhancements to the U.S.
19 Commissioned Corps, and other preparedness and re20 sponse activities: Provided, That funds appropriated under
21 this paragraph in this Act may be used to develop and
22 demonstrate innovations and enhancements to manufac23 turing platforms to support such capabilities: Provided
24 further, That the Secretary of Health and Human Services
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1 able under this paragraph in this Act to respond to an
2 outbreak or pandemic related to coronavirus in quantities
3 determined by the Secretary to be adequate to address the
4 public health need: Provided further, That products pur5 chased by the Federal government with funds made avail6 able under this paragraph in this Act, including vaccines,
7 therapeutics, and diagnostics, shall be purchased in ac8 cordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation guidance on
9 fair and reasonable pricing: Provided further, That the
10 Secretary may take such measures authorized under cur11 rent law to ensure that vaccines, therapeutics, and
12 diagnostics developed from funds provided in this Act will
13 be affordable in the commercial market: Provided further,
14 That in carrying out the previous proviso, the Secretary
15 shall not take actions that delay the development of such
16 products: Provided further, That products purchased with
17 funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act may,
18 at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human
19 Services, be deposited in the Strategic National Stockpile
20 under section 319F–2 of the Public Health Service Act:
21 Provided further, That funds appropriated under this
22 paragraph in this Act may be transferred to, and merged
23 with, the fund authorized by section 319F–4, the Covered
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1 able under this paragraph in this Act, $3,500,000,000
2 shall be available to the Biomedical Advanced Research
3 and Development Authority for necessary expenses of ad4 vanced research, development, manufacturing, production,
5 and purchase of vaccines and therapeutics: Provided fur6 ther, That of the amount made available under this para7 graph in this Act, $500,000,000 shall be available to the
8 Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Author9 ity for the construction, renovation, or equipping of U.S.-
10 based next generation manufacturing facilities, other than
11 facilities owned by the United States Government: Pro12 vided further, That of the amount made available under
13 this paragraph in this Act, $500,000,000 shall be available
14 to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development
15 Authority to promote innovation in antibacterial research
16 and development: Provided further, That funds made
17 available under this paragraph in this Act may be used
18 for grants for the rent, lease, purchase, acquisition, con19 struction, alteration, or renovation of non-Federally owned
20 facilities to improve preparedness and response capability
21 at the State and local level: Provided further, That funds
22 appropriated under this paragraph in this Act may be
23 used for the construction, alteration, renovation or equip24 ping of non-Federally owned facilities for the production
25 of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and medicines and
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1 other items purchased under section 319F–2(a) of the
2 Public Health Service Act where the Secretary determines
3 that such a contract is necessary to assure sufficient do4 mestic production of such supplies: Provided further, That
5 all construction, alteration, or renovation work, carried
6 out, in whole or in part, with fund appropriated under this
7 heading in this Act, the CARES Act (P.L. 116–136), or
8 the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care En9 hancement Act (P.L. 116–139), shall be subject to the re10 quirements of 42 U.S.C. 300s-1(b)(1)(I): Provided further,
11 That not later than seven days after the date of enactment
12 of this Act, and weekly thereafter until the public health
13 emergency related to coronavirus is no longer in effect,
14 the Secretary shall report to the Committees on Appro15 priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
16 on the current inventory of ventilators and personal pro17 tective equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile, in18 cluding the numbers of face shields, gloves, goggles and
19 glasses, gowns, head covers, masks, and respirators, as
20 well as deployment of ventilators and personal protective
21 equipment during the previous week, reported by state and
22 other jurisdiction: Provided further, That after the date
23 that a report is required to be submitted by the preceding
24 proviso, amounts made available for ‘‘Department of
25 Health and Human Services—Office of the Secretary—
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1 General Departmental Management’’ in Public Law 116–
2 94 for salaries and expenses of the Immediate Office of
3 the Secretary shall be reduced by $250,000 for each day
4 that such report has not been submitted: Provided further,
5 That not later than the first Monday in February of fiscal
6 year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary
7 shall include in the annual budget submission for the De8 partment, and submit to the Congress, the Secretary’s re9 quest with respect to expenditures necessary to maintain
10 the minimum level of relevant supplies in the Strategic
11 National Stockpile, including in case of a significant pan12 demic, in consultation with the working group under sec13 tion 319F(a) of the Public Health Service Act and the
14 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures En15 terprise established under section 2811–1 of such Act:
16 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
17 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
18 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
19 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and So21 cial Services Emergency Fund’’, $100,000,000,000, to re22 main available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and
23 respond to coronavirus, for necessary expenses to make
24 payments under the Health Care Provider Relief Fund as
25 described in section 30611 of division C of this Act: ProVerDate Mar 15 2010 12:13 May 12, 2020 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00087 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\MSJOYNER\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL.0\GEN\C\HEROES.X
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1 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
2 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec3 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer4 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
5 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and So6 cial Services Emergency Fund’’, $75,000,000,000, to re7 main available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and
8 respond to coronavirus, for necessary expenses to carry
9 out the COVID-19 National Testing and Contact Tracing
10 Initiative, as described in subtitle D of division C of this
11 Act: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
12 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
13 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
14 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
16 STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND
17 For an additional amount for ‘‘State Fiscal Stabiliza18 tion Fund’’, $90,000,000,000, to remain available until
19 September 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond
20 to coronavirus: Provided, That the Secretary of Education
21 (referred to under this heading as ‘‘Secretary’’) shall make
22 grants to the Governor of each State for support of ele23 mentary, secondary, and postsecondary education and, as
24 applicable, early childhood education programs and serv25 ices: Provided further, That of the amount made available,
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1 the Secretary shall first allocate up to one-half of 1 per2 cent to the outlying areas and one-half of 1 percent to
3 the Bureau of Indian Education (‘‘BIE’’) for activities
4 consistent with this heading under such terms and condi5 tions as the Secretary may determine: Provided further,
6 That the Secretary may reserve up to $30,000,000 for ad7 ministration and oversight of the activities under this
8 heading: Provided further, That the Secretary shall allo9 cate 61 percent of the remaining funds made available to
10 carry out this heading to the States on the basis of their
11 relative population of individuals aged 5 through 24 and
12 allocate 39 percent on the basis of their relative number
13 of children counted under section 1124(c) of the Elemen14 tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (referred to
15 under this heading as ‘‘ESEA’’) as State grants: Provided
16 further, That State grants shall support statewide elemen17 tary, secondary, and postsecondary activities; subgrants to
18 local educational agencies; and, subgrants to public insti19 tutions of higher education: Provided further, That States
20 shall allocate 65 percent of the funds received under the
21 sixth proviso as subgrants to local educational agencies in
22 proportion to the amount of funds such local educational
23 agencies received under part A of title I of the ESEA in
24 the most recent fiscal year: Provided further, That States
25 shall allocate 30 percent of the funds received under the
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1 sixth proviso as subgrants to public institutions of higher
2 education, of which 75 percent shall be apportioned ac3 cording to the relative share of students who received Pell
4 Grants who are not exclusively enrolled in distance edu5 cation courses prior to the coronavirus emergency at the
6 institution in the previous award year and 25 percent shall
7 be apportioned according to the total enrollment of stu8 dents at the institution who are not exclusively enrolled
9 in distance education courses prior to the coronavirus
10 emergency at the institution in the previous award year:
11 Provided further, That the Governor shall return to the
12 Secretary any funds received that the Governor does not
13 award to local educational agencies and public institutions
14 of higher education or otherwise commit within two years
15 of receiving such funds, and the Secretary shall reallocate
16 such funds to the remaining States in accordance with the
17 sixth proviso: Provided further, That Governors shall use
18 State grants and subgrants to maintain or restore State
19 and local fiscal support for elementary, secondary and
20 postsecondary education: Provided further, That funds for
21 local educational agencies may be used for any activity au22 thorized by the ESEA, including the Native Hawaiian
23 Education Act and the Alaska Native Educational Equity,
24 Support, and Assistance Act, the Individuals with Disabil25 ities Education Act (‘‘IDEA’’), subtitle B of title VII of
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1 the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act , the Adult
2 Education and Family Literacy Act or the Carl D. Perkins
3 Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (‘‘the Per4 kins Act’’): Provided further, That a State or local edu5 cational agency receiving funds under this heading may
6 use the funds for activities coordinated with State, local,
7 tribal, and territorial public health departments to detect,
8 prevent, or mitigate the spread of infectious disease or
9 otherwise respond to coronavirus; support online learning
10 by purchasing educational technology and internet access
11 for students, which may include assistive technology or
12 adaptive equipment, that aids in regular and substantive
13 educational interactions between students and their class14 room instructor; provide ongoing professional development
15 to staff in how to effectively provide quality online aca16 demic instruction; provide assistance for children and fam17 ilies to promote equitable participation in quality online
18 learning; plan and implement activities related to summer
19 learning, including providing classroom instruction or
20 quality online learning during the summer months; plan
21 for and coordinate during long-term closures, provide tech22 nology for quality online learning to all students, and how
23 to support the needs of low-income students, racial and
24 ethnic minorities, students with disabilities, English learn25 ers, students experiencing homelessness, and children in
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1 foster care, including how to address learning gaps that
2 are created or exacerbated due to long-term closures; sup3 port the continuity of student engagement through social
4 and emotional learning; and other activities that are nec5 essary to maintain the operation of and continuity of serv6 ices in local educational agencies, including maintaining
7 employment of existing personnel, and reimbursement for
8 eligible costs incurred during the national emergency: Pro9 vided further, That a public institution of higher education
10 that receives funds under this heading shall use funds for
11 education and general expenditures (including defraying
12 expenses due to lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses
13 already incurred, and payroll) and grants to students for
14 expenses directly related to coronavirus and the disruption
15 of campus operations (which may include emergency fi16 nancial aid to students for food, housing, technology,
17 health care, and child care costs that shall not be required
18 to be repaid by such students) or for the acquisition of
19 technology and services directly related to the need for dis20 tance education and the training of faculty and staff to
21 use such technology and services: Provided further, That
22 priority shall be given to under-resourced institutions, in23 stitutions with high burden due to the coronavirus, and
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1 ther, That any institution of higher education that is not
2 otherwise eligible for a grant of at least $1,000,000 under
3 this heading shall be eligible to receive an amount equal
4 to whichever is lesser of the total loss of revenue and in5 creased costs associated with the coronavirus or
6 $1,000,000: Provided further, That an institution of high7 er education may not use funds received under this head8 ing to increase its endowment or provide funding for cap9 ital outlays associated with facilities related to athletics,
10 sectarian instruction, or religious worship: Provided fur11 ther, That funds may be used to support hourly workers,
12 such as education support professionals, classified school
13 employees, and adjunct and contingent faculty: Provided
14 further, That a Governor of a State desiring to receive an
15 allocation under this heading shall submit an application
16 at such time, in such manner, and containing such infor17 mation as the Secretary may reasonably require: Provided
18 further, That the Secretary shall issue a notice inviting
19 applications not later than 15 days after the date of enact20 ment of this Act: Provided further, That any State receiv21 ing funding under this heading shall maintain its percent
22 of total spending on elementary, secondary, and postsec23 ondary education in fiscal year 2019 for fiscal years 2020,
24 2021, and 2022: Provided further, That a State’s applica25 tion shall include assurances that the State will maintain
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1 support for elementary and secondary education in fiscal
2 year 2020, fiscal year 2021, and fiscal year 2022 at least
3 at the level of such support that is the average of such
4 State’s support for elementary and secondary education
5 in the 3 fiscal years preceding the date of enactment of
6 this Act: Provided further, That a State’s application shall
7 include assurances that the State will maintain State sup8 port for higher education (not including support for cap9 ital projects or for research and development or tuition
10 and fees paid by students) in fiscal year 2020, fiscal year
11 2021, and fiscal year 2022 at least at the level of such
12 support that is the average of such State’s support for
13 higher education (which shall include State and local gov14 ernment funding to institutions of higher education and
15 state need-based financial aid) in the 3 fiscal years pre16 ceding the date of enactment of this Act, and that any
17 such State’s support for higher education funding, as cal18 culated as spending for public higher education per full19 time equivalent student, shall be the same in fiscal year
20 2022 as it was in fiscal year 2019: Provided further, That
21 in such application, the Governor shall provide baseline
22 data that demonstrates the State’s current status in each
23 of the areas described in such assurances in the preceding
24 provisos: Provided further, That a State’s application shall
25 include assurances that the State will not construe any
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1 provisions under this heading as displacing any otherwise
2 applicable provision of any collective-bargaining agreement
3 between an eligible entity and a labor organization as de4 fined by section 2(5) of the National Labor Relations Act
5 (29 U.S.C. 152(5)) or analogous State law: Provided fur6 ther, That a State’s application shall include assurances
7 that the State shall maintain the wages, benefits, and
8 other terms and conditions of employment set forth in any
9 collective-bargaining agreement between the eligible entity
10 and a labor organization, as defined in the preceding pro11 viso: Provided further, That a State’s application shall in12 clude assurances that all students with disabilities are af13 forded their full rights under IDEA, including all rights
14 and services outlined in individualized education programs
15 (‘‘IEPs’’): Provided further, That a State receiving funds
16 under this heading shall submit a report to the Secretary,
17 at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may
18 require, that describes the use of funds provided under
19 this heading: Provided further, That no recipient of funds
20 under this heading shall use funds to provide financial as21 sistance to students to attend private elementary or sec22 ondary schools, unless such funds are used to provide spe23 cial education and related services to children with disabil24 ities whose IEPs require such placement, and where the
25 school district maintains responsibility for providing such
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1 children a free appropriate public education, as authorized
2 by IDEA: Provided further, That a local educational agen3 cy, State, institution of higher education, or other entity
4 that receives funds under ‘‘State Fiscal Stabilization
5 Fund’’, shall to the greatest extent practicable, continue
6 to pay its employees and contractors during the period of
7 any disruptions or closures related to coronavirus: Pro8 vided further, That the terms ‘‘elementary education’’ and
9 ‘‘secondary education’’ have the meaning given such terms
10 under State law: Provided further, That the term ‘‘institu11 tion of higher education’’ has the meaning given such term
12 in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965: Pro13 vided further, That the term ‘‘fiscal year’’ shall have the
14 meaning given such term under State law: Provided fur15 ther, That the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 States,
16 the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puer17 to Rico: Provided further, That such amount is designated
18 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
19 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg20 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
21 HIGHER EDUCATION
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Higher Education’’,
23 $10,150,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
24 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,
25 of which $11,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘National
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1 Technical Institute for the Deaf’’ to help defray expenses
2 (which may include lost revenue, reimbursement for ex3 penses already incurred, technology costs associated with
4 a transition to distance education, sign language and cap5 tioning costs associated with a transition to distance edu6 cation, faculty and staff trainings, and payroll) directly
7 caused by coronavirus and to enable emergency financial
8 aid to students for expenses directly related to coronavirus
9 and the disruption of university operations (which may in10 clude food, housing, transportation, technology, health
11 care, and child care), of which $20,000,000 shall be trans12 ferred to ‘‘Howard University’’ to help defray expenses
13 (which may include lost revenue, reimbursement for ex14 penses already incurred, technology costs associated with
15 a transition to distance education, technology costs associ16 ated with a transition to distance education, faculty and
17 staff trainings, and payroll) directly related to coronavirus
18 and to enable grants to students for expenses directly re19 lated to coronavirus and the disruption of university oper20 ations (which may include food, housing, transportation,
21 technology, health care, and child care), of which
22 $11,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Gallaudet Univer23 sity’’ to help defray expenses (which may include lost rev24 enue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, tech25 nology costs associated with a transition to distance eduVerDate Mar 15 2010 12:13 May 12, 2020 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\MSJOYNER\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL.0\GEN\C\HEROES.X
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1 cation, sign language and captioning costs associated with
2 a transition to distance education, faculty and staff
3 trainings, and payroll) directly related to coronavirus and
4 to enable grants to students for expenses directly related
5 to coronavirus and the disruption of university operations
6 (which may include food, housing, transportation, tech7 nology, health care, and child care), and of which the re8 maining amounts shall be used to carry out parts A and
9 B of title III, parts A and B of title V, subpart 4 of part
10 A of title VII, and part B of title VII of the Higher Edu11 cation Act of 1965 (‘‘HEA’’) as follows:
12 (1) $1,708,000,000 for parts A and B of title
13 III, parts A and B of title V, and subpart 4 of part
14 A of title VII of the HEA to address needs directly
15 related to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount
16 shall be allocated by the Secretary proportionally to
17 such programs covered under this paragraph and
18 based on the relative share of funding appropriated
19 to such programs in the Further Consolidated Ap20 propriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) and
21 distributed to institutions of higher education as fol22 lows:
23 (A) Except as otherwise provided in sub24 paragraph (B), for eligible institutions under
25 part B of title III and subpart 4 of part A of
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1 title VII of the Higher Education Act, the Sec2 retary shall allot to each eligible institution an
3 amount using the following formula:
4 (i) 70 percent according to a ratio
5 equivalent to the number of Pell Grant re6 cipients in attendance at such institution
7 at the end of the school year preceding the
8 beginning of that fiscal year and the total
9 number of Pell Grant recipients at all such
10 institutions;
11 (ii) 20 percent according to a ratio
12 equivalent to the total number of students
13 enrolled at such institution at the end of
14 the school year preceding the beginning of
15 that fiscal year and the number of stu16 dents enrolled at all such institutions; and
17 (iii) 10 percent according to a ratio
18 equivalent to the total endowment size at
19 all eligible institutions at the end of the
20 school year preceding the beginning of that
21 fiscal year and the total endowment size at
22 such institutions;
23 (B) For eligible institutions under section
24 326 of the Higher Education Act, the Secretary
25 shall allot to each eligible institution an amount
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1 in proportion to the award received from fund2 ing for such institutions in the Further Consoli3 dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law
4 116–94);
5 (C) For eligible institutions under section
6 316 of the Higher Education Act, the Secretary
7 shall allot funding according to the formula in
8 section 316(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act;
9 (D) Notwithstanding section 318(f) of the
10 Higher Education Act, for eligible institutions
11 under section 318 of the Higher Education Act,
12 the Secretary shall allot funding according to
13 the formula in section 318(e) of the Higher
14 Education Act;
15 (E) Except as provided in subparagraphs
16 (C) and (D), for eligible institutions under part
17 A of title III of the Higher Education Act and
18 parts A and B of title V, the Secretary shall
19 issue an application for eligible institutions to
20 demonstrate unmet need, and the Secretary
21 shall allow eligible institutions to apply for
22 funds under one of the programs for which they
23 are eligible.
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1 fined in section 101 or 102(c) of the HEA) to ad2 dress needs directly related to coronavirus as follows:
3 (A) $7,000,000,000 shall be provided to
4 private, non-profit institutions of higher edu5 cation apportioning it—
6 (i) 75 percent according to the rel7 ative share of enrollment of Federal Pell
8 Grant recipients who are not exclusively
9 enrolled in distance education courses prior
10 to the coronavirus emergency, and
11 (ii) 25 percent according to the rel12 ative share of the total equivalent enroll13 ment of students who were not Federal
14 Pell Grant recipients who are not exclu15 sively enrolled in distance education
16 courses prior to the coronavirus emer17 gency.
18 (B) $1,400,000,000 shall be for institu19 tions of higher education (as defined in section
20 101 of the Higher Education Act) with unmet
21 need related to the coronavirus, including insti22 tutions of higher education that offer their
23 courses and programs exclusively through dis24 tance education:
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1 Provided, That funds shall be used to make payments to
2 such institutions to provide emergency grants to students
3 who attended such institutions at any point during the
4 coronavirus emergency and for any component of the stu5 dent’s cost of attendance (as defined under section 472
6 of the HEA), including food, housing, course materials,
7 technology, health care, and child care): Provided further,
8 That institutions of higher education may use such funds
9 to defray expenses (including lost revenue, reimbursement
10 for expenses already incurred, technology costs associated
11 with a transition to distance education, faculty and staff
12 trainings, and payroll) incurred by institutions of higher
13 education: Provided further, That such payments shall not
14 be used to increase endowments or provide funding for
15 capital outlays associated with facilities related to ath16 letics, sectarian instruction, or religious worship: Provided
17 further, That any institution of higher education that is
18 not otherwise eligible for a grant of at least $1,000,000
19 under paragraph (2)(A) of this heading and has a total
20 enrollment of at least 500 students shall be eligible to re21 ceive an amount equal to whichever is the lesser of the
22 total loss of revenue and increased costs associated with
23 the coronavirus or $1,000,000: Provided further, That
24 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
25 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
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1 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
2 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
4 SEC. 10602. Amounts made available to ‘‘Depart5 ment of Education—Office of Inspector General’’ in title
6 VIII of division B of Public Law 116–136 are hereby per7 manently rescinded, and an amount of additional new
8 budget authority equivalent to the amount rescinded is
9 hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended,
10 for the same purposes and under the same authorities as
11 they were originally appropriated, and shall be in addition
12 to any other funds available for such purposes: Provided,
13 That the amounts appropriated by this section may also
14 be used for investigations and are available until ex15 pended: Provided further, That such amount is designated
16 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
17 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg18 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 SEC. 10603. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco20 nomic Security Act (P.L. 116–136) is amended by striking
21 section 18001(a)(3): Provided, That amounts repurposed
22 by this section that were previously designated by the Con23 gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Bal24 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
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1 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 SEC. 10604. Section 18005(a) of the Coronavirus
4 Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116–136)
5 is amended by inserting ‘‘with these funds only for chil6 dren identified under section 1115(c) of the ESEA in the
7 school district served by a local educational agency who
8 are enrolled in private elementary schools and secondary
9 schools’’ after ‘‘equitable services’’: Provided, That
10 amounts repurposed by this section that were previously
11 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
12 pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
13 Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as
14 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
15 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
16 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
17 SEC. 10605. Section 18004(c) of the Coronavirus
18 Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116–136)
19 is amended by striking ‘‘to cover any costs associated with
20 significant changes to the delivery of instruction due to
21 the coronavirus’’ and inserting ‘‘to defray expenses (in22 cluding lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already
23 incurred, technology costs associated with a transition to
24 distance education, faculty and staff trainings, payroll) in25 curred by institutions of higher education.’’: Provided,
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1 That amounts repurposed by this section that were pre2 viously designated by the Congress as an emergency re3 quirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer4 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the
5 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec6 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer7 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 SEC. 10606. With respect to the allocation and award
9 of funds under this title, the Secretary of Education is
10 prohibited from—
11 (a) establishing a priority or preference not specified
12 in this title; and
13 (b) imposing limits on the use of such funds not spec14 ified in this title.
15 RELATED AGENCIES
16 CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY
17 SERVICE
18 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—CORPORATION FOR
19 NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
20 SEC. 10607. (a) The remaining unobligated balances
21 of funds as of September 30, 2020, from amounts pro22 vided to ‘‘Corporation for National and Community Serv23 ice—Salaries and Expenses’’ in title IV of division A of
24 the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Pub25 lic Law 116–94), are hereby permanently rescinded, and
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1 an amount of additional new budget authority equal to
2 the unobligated balances rescinded is hereby appropriated
3 on September 30, 2020, to remain available until Sep4 tember 30, 2021, for the same purposes and under the
5 same authorities that they were originally made available
6 in Public Law 116–94, which shall be in addition to any
7 other funds available for such purposes: Provided, That
8 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
9 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
10 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
11 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 (b) The remaining unobligated balances of funds as
13 of September 30, 2020, from amounts provided to ‘‘Cor14 poration for National and Community Service—Operating
15 Expenses’’ in title IV of division A of the Further Consoli16 dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94), are
17 hereby permanently rescinded, and an amount of addi18 tional new budget authority equal to the unobligated bal19 ances rescinded is hereby appropriated on September 30,
20 2020, to remain available until September 30, 2021, for
21 the same purposes and under the same authorities that
22 they were originally made available in Public Law 116–
23 94, which shall be in addition to any other funds available
24 for such purposes: Provided, That any amounts appro25 priated by the preceding proviso shall not be subject to
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1 the allotment requirements otherwise applicable under sec2 tions 129(a), (b), (d), and (e) of the National and Commu3 nity Service Act of 1993: Provided further, That such
4 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
5 emergency requirement pursuant to section
6 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
7 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 (c) The remaining unobligated balances of funds as
9 of September 30, 2020, from amounts provided to ‘‘Cor10 poration for National and Community Service—Office of
11 Inspector General’’ in title IV of division A of the Further
12 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–
13 94), are hereby permanently rescinded, and an amount of
14 additional new budget authority equal to the amount re15 scinded is hereby appropriated on September 30, 2020,
16 to remain available until September 30, 2021, for the
17 same purposes and under the same authorities that they
18 were originally made available in Public Law 116–94,
19 which shall be in addition to any other funds available for
20 such purposes: Provided, That such amount is designated
21 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
22 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg23 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
24 (d)(1) Section 3514(b) of title III of division A of
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1 plied hereafter as if such subsection had never been en2 acted.
3 (2)(A) IN GENERAL.—The budgetary effects of
4 this subsection are designated as an emergency re5 quirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory
6 Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
7 (B) DESIGNATION IN THE SENATE.—In the
8 Senate, this subsection is designated as an emer9 gency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H.
10 Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent reso11 lution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
12 (C) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EF13 FECTS.—Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget
14 Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint ex15 planatory statement of the committee of conference
16 accompanying Conference Report 105–217 and sec17 tion 250(c)(7) and (c)(8) of the Balanced Budget
18 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the
19 budgetary effects of this subsection—
20 (i) shall not be estimated for purposes of
21 section 251 of such Act; and
22 (ii) shall be entered on the PAYGO score23 cards maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of
24 the Statutory Pay As-You-Go Act of 2010.
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1 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES
2 OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS
3 AND ADMINISTRATION
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘Institute of Museum
5 and Library Services’’, $5,000,000, to remain available
6 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re7 spond to coronavirus, including grants to States, terri8 tories, tribes, museums, and libraries, to expand digital
9 network access, purchase internet accessible devices, pro10 vide technical support services, and for operational ex11 penses: Provided, That any matching funds requirements
12 for States, tribes, libraries, and museums are waived for
13 grants provided with funds made available under this
14 heading in this Act: Provided further, That such amount
15 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
16 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
17 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
18 1985.
19 RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
20 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Limitation on Admin22 istration’’, $4,500,000, to remain available until Sep23 tember 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
24 coronavirus, including the expeditious dispensation of rail25 road unemployment insurance benefits, and to support
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1 full-time equivalents and overtime hours as needed to ad2 minister the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: Pro3 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
4 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec5 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer6 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
7 LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of the Inspector
9 General’’, $500,000, to remain available until expended,
10 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in11 cluding salaries and expenses necessary for oversight, in12 vestigations and audits of the Railroad Retirement Board
13 and railroad unemployment insurance benefits funded in
14 this Act and Public Law 116–136: Provided, That such
15 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
16 emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
20 SEC. 10608. Notwithstanding any other provision of
21 law, funds made available under each heading in this title
22 shall only be used for the purposes specifically described
23 under that heading.
24 SEC. 10609. Funds appropriated by this title may be
25 used by the Secretary of the Health and Human Services
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1 to appoint, without regard to the provisions of sections
2 3309 through 3319 of title 5 of the United States Code,
3 candidates needed for positions to perform critical work
4 relating to coronavirus for which—
5 (1) public notice has been given; and
6 (2) the Secretary has determined that such a
7 public health threat exists.
8 SEC. 10610. Funds made available by this title may
9 be used to enter into contracts with individuals for the
10 provision of personal services (as described in section 104
11 of part 37 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations (48
12 CFR 37.104)) to support the prevention of, preparation
13 for, or response to coronavirus, domestically and inter14 nationally, subject to prior notification to the Committees
15 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
16 Senate: Provided, That such individuals may not be
17 deemed employees of the United States for the purpose
18 of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Man19 agement: Provided further, That the authority made avail20 able pursuant to this section shall expire on September
21 30, 2024.
22 SEC. 10611. Not later than 30 days after the date
23 of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and
24 Human Services shall provide a detailed spend plan of an25 ticipated uses of funds made available to the Department
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1 of Health and Human Services in this Act, including esti2 mated personnel and administrative costs, to the Commit3 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
4 and the Senate: Provided, That such plans shall be up5 dated and submitted to such Committees every 60 days
6 until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That the
7 spend plans shall be accompanied by a listing of each con8 tract obligation incurred that exceeds $5,000,000 which
9 has not previously been reported, including the amount of
10 each such obligation.
11 SEC. 10612. No later than September 30, 2020, the
12 remaining unobligated balances of funds made available
13 through September 30, 2020, under the heading ‘‘Na14 tional Institutes of Health’’ in the Further Consolidated
15 Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) are hereby
16 permanently rescinded, and an amount of additional new
17 budget authority equivalent to the amount rescinded from
18 each account is hereby appropriated to that account, to
19 remain available until September 30, 2021, and shall be
20 available for the same purposes, in addition to other funds
21 as may be available for such purposes, and under the same
22 authorities for which the funds were originally provided
23 in Public Law 116–94: Provided, That such amount is
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1 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal2 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 SEC. 10613. Funds made available in Public Law
4 113–235 to the accounts of the National Institutes of
5 Health that were available for obligation through fiscal
6 year 2015 and were obligated for multi-year research
7 grants shall be available through fiscal year 2021 for the
8 liquidation of valid obligations if the Director of the Na9 tional Insitutes of Health determines the project suffered
10 an interruption of activities attributable to SARS–CoV–
11 2: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Con12 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
13 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
14 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 SEC. 10614. Of the funds appropriated by this title
16 under the heading ‘‘Public Health and Social Services
17 Emergency Fund’’, $75,000,000 shall be transferred to,
18 and merged with, funds made available under the heading
19 ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Office of Inspector General’’, and
20 shall remain available until expended, for oversight of ac21 tivities supported with funds appropriated to the Depart22 ment of Health and Human Services in this Act: Provided,
23 That the Inspector General of the Department of Health
24 and Human Services shall consult with the Committees
25 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
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1 Senate prior to obligating such funds: Provided further,
2 That the transfer authority provided by this section is in
3 addition to any other transfer authority provided by law.
4 TITLE VII—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
5 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
6 For an additional amount for the ‘‘House of Rep7 resentatives’’, $5,000,000, to remain available until Sep8 tember 30, 2021, for necessary expenses to prevent, pre9 pare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That the
10 amounts made available under this heading in this Act
11 shall be allocated in accordance with a spend plan sub12 mitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the House
13 of Representatives by the Chief Administrative Officer and
14 approved by such Committee: Provided further, That such
15 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
16 emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
20 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex22 penses’’, $30,000,000, to remain available until expended,
23 for audits and investigations relating to COVID–19 or
24 similar pandemics, as well as any related stimulus funding
25 to assist the Nation’s response to health and economic
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1 vulnerabilities to pandemics: Provided, That, not later
2 than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the
3 Government Accountability Office shall submit to the
4 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent5 atives and the Senate a spend plan specifying funding esti6 mates and a timeline for such audits and investigations:
7 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
8 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
9 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
10 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
11 TITLE VIII—DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN
12 OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS
13 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
14 ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
15 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
16 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector
17 General’’, $2,000,000, to remain available until September
18 30, 2022, for oversight of funds administered by the De19 partment of State and made available to prevent, prepare
20 for, and respond to coronavirus by this title and by prior
21 acts: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
22 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
23 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
24 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 GENERAL PROVISIONS — THIS TITLE
2 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
3 SEC. 10801. Section 21005 of the Emergency Appro4 priations for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency
5 Operations (division B of Public Law 116–136) is amend6 ed by inserting at the end before the period ‘‘and is further
7 amended by striking ‘$5,563,619’ in the second proviso
8 under the heading ‘Repatriation Loans Program Account’
9 and inserting in lieu thereof ‘$15,563,619’ ’’.
10 SEC. 10802. Section 21009 of the Emergency Appro11 priations for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency
12 Operations (division B of Public Law 116–136) is amend13 ed by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ and inserting in lieu
14 thereof ‘‘fiscal years 2020 and 2021’’: Provided, That the
15 amount provided by this section is designated by the Con16 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
17 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
18 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 TITLE IX
2 TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN
3 DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES
4 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
5 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
6 OPERATIONS
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations’’,
8 $75,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
9 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus:
10 Provided, That amounts made available under this head11 ing in this Act shall be derived from the general fund,
12 of which not less than $1,000,000 shall be for the Admin13 istrator to seek to enter into an agreement not later than
14 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act with a
15 research organization established under chapter 1503 of
16 title 36, United States Code, to conduct a study to deter17 mine whether the environmental controls systems in com18 mercial airliners recirculate pathogens in the cabin air and
19 to assess existing and potential technological solutions to
20 reduce pathogen recirculation and to mitigate any elevated
21 risk of exposure to pathogens in the cabin air: Provided
22 further That such amount is designated by the Congress
23 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec24 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer25 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
2 HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS
3 For an additional amount for ‘‘Highway Infrastruc4 ture Programs’’, $15,000,000,000, to remain available
5 until expended: Provided, That the funds made available
6 under this heading shall be derived from the general fund,
7 shall be in addition to any funds provided for fiscal year
8 2020 in this or any other Act for ‘‘Federal-aid Highways’’
9 under chapters 1 or 2 of title 23, United States Code,
10 and shall not affect the distribution or amount of funds
11 provided in any other Act: Provided further, That notwith12 standing chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, or any
13 other provision of law, a State, territory, Puerto Rico, or
14 Indian Tribe may use funds made available under this
15 heading in this Act for activities eligible under section
16 133(b) of title 23, United States Code, for administrative
17 and operations expenses, including salaries of employees
18 (including those employees who have been placed on ad19 ministrative leave) or contractors, information technology
20 needs, and availability payments: Provided further, That
21 of the funds made available under this heading,
22 $14,775,000,000 shall be available for States,
23 $150,000,000 shall be available for the Tribal Transpor24 tation Program, as described in section 202 of title 23,
25 United States Code, $60,000,000 shall be available for the
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1 Puerto Rico Highway Program, as described in section
2 165(b)(2)(C)(iii) of such title; and $15,000,000 shall be
3 available for under the Territorial Highway Program, as
4 described in section 165(c)(6) of such title: Provided fur5 ther, That for the purposes of funds made available under
6 this heading the term ‘‘State’’ means any of the 50 States
7 or the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the
8 funds made available under this heading for States shall
9 be apportioned to States in the same ratio as the obliga10 tion limitation for fiscal year 2020 was distributed among
11 the States in accordance with the formula specified in sec12 tion 120(a)(5) of division H of Public Law 116–94 and
13 shall be apportioned not later than 30 days after the date
14 of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the funds
15 made available under this heading shall be administered
16 as if apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United
17 States Code, except that activities eligible under the Tribal
18 Transportation Program shall be administered as if allo19 cated under chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code: Pro20 vided further, That funds apportioned to a State under
21 this heading shall be suballocated within the State to areas
22 described in subsection 133(d)(1)(A)(i) of title 23, United
23 States Code, in the same ratio that funds suballocated to
24 those areas for fiscal year 2020 bears to the total amount
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1 way program under section 104 of such title for fiscal year
2 2020: Provided further, That of funds made available
3 under this heading for activities eligible under section
4 133(b) of title 23, United States Code, any such activity
5 shall be subject to the requirements of section 133(i) of
6 such title: Provided further, That, except as provided in
7 the following proviso, the funds made available under this
8 heading for activities eligible under the Puerto Rico High9 way Program and activities eligible under the Territorial
10 Highway Program shall be administered as if allocated
11 under sections 165(b) and 165(c), respectively, of such
12 title: Provided further, That the funds made available
13 under this heading for activities eligible under the Puerto
14 Rico Highway Program shall not be subject to the require15 ments of sections 165(b)(2)(A) or 165(b)(2)(B) of such
16 title: Provided further, That for amounts subject to the
17 obligation limitation under the heading ‘‘Department of
18 Transportation—Federal Highway Administration—Fed19 eral-aid Highways—(Limitation on Obligations)—(High20 way Trust Fund)’’ in Public Law 116–94 for fiscal year
21 2020 that are obligated after the date of enactment of this
22 Act, and for any amounts made available under this head23 ing in this Act, the Federal share of the costs shall be,
24 at the option of the State, District of Columbia, territory,
25 Puerto Rico, or Indian Tribe, up to 100 percent, and may
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1 be available for administrative and operations expenses,
2 including salaries of employees (including those employees
3 who have been placed on administrative leave) or contrac4 tors, information technology needs, and availability pay5 ments: Provided further, That section 120(c) of Public
6 Law 116–94 shall not apply for fiscal year 2020, and that
7 amounts that would otherwise have been redistributed by
8 section 120(c) shall be retained by States and shall be
9 available for their original purpose until September 30,
10 2021, except that such amounts shall be subject to such
11 redistribution in fiscal year 2021: Provided further, That
12 amounts made available under section 147 of title 23,
13 United States Code, for fiscal years 2019 and 2020 are
14 available for the administrative and operating expenses of
15 eligible entities related to the response to a coronavirus
16 public health emergency beginning on January 20, 2020,
17 reimbursement for administrative and operating costs to
18 maintain service including the purchase of personal pro19 tective equipment, and paying the administrative leave of
20 operations personnel due to reductions in service: Provided
21 further, That funds made available for administrative and
22 operating expenses authorized for fiscal year 2020 in Pub23 lic Law 116–94 or in this Act under this heading are not
24 required to be included in a transportation improvement
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1 gram under sections 134 or 135 of title 23, United States
2 Code, or chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, as
3 applicable: Provided further, That unless otherwise speci4 fied, applicable requirements under title 23, United States
5 Code, shall apply to funds made available under this head6 ing: Provided further, That the Administrator of the Fed7 eral Highway Administration may retain up to one half
8 of one percent of the funds made available under this
9 heading to fund the oversight by the Administrator of ac10 tivities carried out with funds made available under this
11 heading: Provided further, That such amount is designated
12 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
13 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg14 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
16 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMERGENCY RELIEF
17 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Transportation
18 Emergency Relief’’, $15,750,000,000, to remain available
19 until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
20 coronavirus: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated
21 under this heading in this Act—
22 (1) $11,750,000,000 shall be for grants to ur23 banized areas with populations over 3,000,000 and
24 shall be allocated in the same ratio as funds were
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1 cent of the amounts provided in this paragraph shall
2 be allocated as if such funds were provided under
3 section 5307 of title 49, United States Code and ap4 portioned in accordance with section 5338 of such
5 title (other than subsection (b)(3) and (c)(1)(A))
6 and 85 percent of the amounts provided in this
7 paragraph shall be allocated under section 5337 of
8 such title and apportioned in accordance with such
9 section: Provided further, That funds provided under
10 section 5337 shall be added to funds apportioned
11 under section 5307 for administration in accordance
12 with provisions under section 5307: Provided further,
13 That for urbanized areas with multiple subrecipi14 ents, funds provided under section 5337 in this
15 paragraph shall be distributed among subrecipients
16 using the same ratio used to distribute funds made
17 available for section 5337 in fiscal year 2020; and
18 (2) $4,000,000,000 shall be for grants to tran19 sit agencies that, as a result of coronavirus, require
20 significant additional assistance to maintain basic
21 transit services: Provided, That such funds shall be
22 administered as if they were provided under section
23 5324 of title 49, United States Code: Provided fur24 ther, That any recipient or subrecipient of funds
25 under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, or
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1 an intercity bus service provider that has, between
2 October 1, 2018 and January 20, 2020, partnered
3 with a recipient or subrecipient in order to meet the
4 requirements of section 5311(f) of such title shall be
5 eligible to directly apply for funds under this para6 graph: Provided further, That entities that are not
7 recipients or subrecipients of funds under chapter 53
8 of title 49 but are eligible for grants under this
9 heading in this Act shall be eligible to receive not
10 more than 18.75 percent of the total funds provided
11 under this paragraph: Provided further, That such
12 entities shall use assistance provided under this
13 heading only for workforce retention or, the recall or
14 rehire of any laid off, furloughed, or terminated em15 ployee, associated with the provision of bus service:
16 Provided further, That, the Secretary shall issue a
17 Notice of Funding Opportunity not later than 30
18 days after the date of enactment of this Act and
19 that such Notice of Funding Opportunity shall re20 quire application submissions not later than 45 days
21 after the enactment of this Act: Provided further,
22 That the Secretary shall make awards not later than
23 45 days after the application deadline: Provided fur24 ther, That the Secretary shall require grantees to
25 provide estimates of financial need, data on reduced
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1 ridership, and a spending plan for funds: Provided
2 further, That when evaluating applications for assist3 ance, the Secretary shall give priority to transit
4 agencies with the largest revenue loss as a percent5 age of their operating expenses: Provided further,
6 That if applications for assistance do not exceed
7 available funds, the Secretary shall reserve the re8 maining amounts for grantees to prevent, prepare
9 for, and respond to coronavirus and shall accept ap10 plications on a rolling basis: Provided further, That
11 if amounts made available under this heading in this
12 Act remain unobligated on December 31, 2021, such
13 amounts shall be available for any purpose eligible
14 under section 5324 of title 49, United States Code:
15 Provided further, That the provision of funds under this
16 section shall not affect the ability of any other agency of
17 the Government, including the Federal Emergency Man18 agement Agency, or State agency, a local governmental
19 entity, organization, or person, to provide any other funds
20 otherwise authorized by law: Provided further, That not21 withstanding subsection (a)(1) or (b) of section 5307 of
22 title 49, United States Code, subsection (a)(1) of section
23 5324 of such title, or any provision of chapter 53 of title
24 49, funds provided under this heading in this Act are
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1 lated to the response to a coronavirus public health emer2 gency, including, beginning on January 20, 2020, reim3 bursement for operating costs to maintain service and lost
4 revenue due to the coronavirus public health emergency,
5 including the purchase of personal protective equipment,
6 and paying the administrative leave of operations or con7 tractor personnel due to reductions in service: Provided
8 further, That to the maximum extent possible, funds made
9 available under this heading in this Act and in title XII
10 of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136)
11 shall be directed to payroll and public transit service, un12 less the recipient certifies to the Secretary they have not
13 furloughed any employees: Provided further, That such op14 erating expenses are not required to be included in a
15 transportation improvement program, long-range trans16 portation plan, statewide transportation plan, or a state17 wide transportation improvement program: Provided fur18 ther, That the Secretary shall not waive the requirements
19 of section 5333 of title 49, United States Code, for funds
20 appropriated under this heading in this Act: Provided fur21 ther, That unless otherwise specified, applicable require22 ments under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code,
23 shall apply to funding made available under this heading
24 in this Act, except that the Federal share of the costs for
25 which any grant is made under this heading in this Act
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1 shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 100 percent:
2 Provided further, That the amount made available under
3 this heading in this Act shall be derived from the general
4 fund and shall not be subject to any limitation on obliga5 tions for transit programs set forth in any Act: Provided
6 further, That not more than one-half of one percent of the
7 funds for transit infrastructure grants provided under this
8 heading in this Act shall be available for administrative
9 expenses and ongoing program management oversight as
10 authorized under sections 5334 and 5338(f)(2) of title 49,
11 United States Code, and shall be in addition to any other
12 appropriations for such purpose: Provided further, That
13 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
14 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
15 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
16 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
17 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
18 DEVELOPMENT
19 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING
20 TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
21 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental
23 Assistance’’, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until ex24 pended, and to be used under the same authority and con25 ditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
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1 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
2 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), except that any
3 amounts provided for administrative expenses and other
4 expenses of public housing agencies for their section 8 pro5 grams, including Mainstream vouchers, under this heading
6 in the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) and under this
7 heading in this Act shall also be available for Housing As8 sistance Payments under section 8(o) of the United States
9 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)): Provided,
10 That amounts made available under this heading in this
11 Act and under the same heading in title XII of division
12 B of the CARES Act may be used to cover or reimburse
13 allowable costs incurred to prevent, prepare for, and re14 spond to coronavirus regardless of the date on which such
15 costs were incurred: Provided further, That of the amounts
16 made available under this heading in this Act,
17 $500,000,000 shall be available for administrative ex18 penses and other expenses of public housing agencies for
19 their section 8 programs, including Mainstream vouchers:
20 Provided further, That of the amounts made available
21 under this heading in this Act, $2,500,000,000 shall be
22 available for adjustments in the calendar year 2020 sec23 tion 8 renewal funding allocations, including Mainstream
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1 traordinary circumstances or that, despite taking reason2 able cost savings measures, as determined by the Sec3 retary, would otherwise be required to terminate rental as4 sistance for families as a result of insufficient funding:
5 Provided further, That of the amounts made available
6 under this heading in this Act, $1,000,000,000 shall be
7 used for incremental rental voucher assistance under sec8 tion 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for
9 use by individuals and families who are—homeless, as de10 fined under section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Home11 less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a)); at risk of home12 lessness, as defined under section 401(1) of the McKin13 ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1));
14 or fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating
15 violence, sexual assault, or stalking: Provided further, That
16 the Secretary shall allocate amounts made available in the
17 preceding proviso to public housing agencies not later than
18 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, according
19 to a formula that considers the ability of the public hous20 ing agency to use vouchers promptly and the need of geo21 graphical areas based on factors to be determined by the
22 Secretary, such as risk of transmission of coronavirus,
23 high numbers or rates of sheltered and unsheltered home24 lessness, and economic and housing market conditions:
25 Provided further, That if a public housing authority elects
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1 not to administer or does not promptly issue all of its au2 thorized vouchers within a reasonable period of time, the
3 Secretary shall reallocate any unissued vouchers and asso4 ciated funds to other public housing agencies according
5 to the criteria in the preceding proviso: Provided further,
6 That a public housing agency shall not reissue any vouch7 ers under this heading in this Act for incremental rental
8 voucher assistance when assistance for the family initially
9 assisted is terminated: Provided further, That upon termi10 nation of incremental rental voucher assistance under this
11 heading in this Act for one or more families assisted by
12 a public housing agency, the Secretary shall reallocate
13 amounts that are no longer needed by such public housing
14 agency for assistance under this heading in this Act to
15 another public housing agency for the renewal of vouchers
16 previously authorized under this heading in this Act: Pro17 vided further, That amounts made available in this para18 graph are in addition to any other amounts made available
19 for such purposes: Provided further, That up to 0.5 per20 cent of the amounts made available under this heading
21 in this Act may be transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Depart22 ment of Housing and Urban Development, Program Of23 fices—Public and Indian Housing’’ to supplement existing
24 resources for the necessary costs of administering and
25 overseeing the obligation and expenditure of these
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1 amounts, to remain available until September 30, 2024:
2 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
3 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
4 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
5 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND
7 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Housing Oper9 ating Fund’’, as authorized by section 9(e) of the United
10 States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)),
11 $2,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
12 2021, and to be used under the same authority and condi13 tions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 2020
14 under this heading in title XII of division B of the CARES
15 Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That amounts made
16 available under this heading in this Act and under the
17 same heading in title XII of division B of the CARES Act
18 may be used to cover or reimburse allowable costs incurred
19 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus re20 gardless of the date on which such costs were incurred:
21 Provided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts
22 made available under this heading in this Act may be
23 transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Department of Housing and
24 Urban Development, Program Offices—Public and Indian
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1 essary costs of administering and overseeing the obligation
2 and expenditure of these amounts, to remain available
3 until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That such
4 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
5 emergency requirement pursuant to section
6 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
7 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
9 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
10 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing Opportuni11 ties for Persons with AIDS’’, $15,000,000, to remain
12 available until September 30, 2021, and to be used under
13 the same authority and conditions as the additional appro14 priations for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title
15 XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–
16 136): Provided, That amounts provided under this heading
17 in this Act that are allocated pursuant to section 854(c)(5)
18 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901
19 et seq.) shall remain available until September 30, 2022:
20 Provided further, That not less than $15,000,000 of the
21 amount provided under this heading in this Act shall be
22 allocated pursuant to the formula in section 854 of such
23 Act using the same data elements as utilized pursuant to
24 that same formula in fiscal year 2020: Provided further,
25 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
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1 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
2 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
3 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
4 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND
5 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
6 For an additional amount for ‘‘Community Develop7 ment Fund’’, $5,000,000,000, to remain available until
8 September 30, 2023, and to be used under the same au9 thority and conditions as the additional appropriations for
10 fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division
11 B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided,
12 That such amount made available under this heading in
13 this Act shall be distributed pursuant to section 106 of
14 the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
15 (42 U.S.C. 5306) to grantees that received allocations
16 pursuant to such formula in fiscal year 2020, and that
17 such allocations shall be made within 30 days of enact18 ment of this Act: Provided further, That in administering
19 funds under this heading, an urban county shall consider
20 needs throughout the entire urban county configuration
21 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro22 vided further, That up to $100,000,000 of amounts made
23 available under this heading in this Act may be used to
24 make new awards or increase prior awards to existing
25 technical assistance providers: Provided further, That of
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1 the amounts made available under this heading in this
2 Act, up to $25,000,000 may be transferred to ‘‘Depart3 ment of Housing and Urban Development, Program Of4 fices—Community Planning and Development’’ for nec5 essary costs of administering and overseeing the obligation
6 and expenditure of amounts under this heading in this
7 Act, to remain available until September 30, 2028: Pro8 vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con9 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
10 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
11 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
13 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
14 For an additional amount for ‘‘Homeless Assistance
15 Grants’’, $11,500,000,000, to remain available until Sep16 tember 30, 2025, for the Emergency Solutions Grants pro17 gram as authorized under subtitle B of title IV of the
18 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
19 11371 et seq.), as amended, and to be used under the
20 same authority and conditions as the additional appropria21 tions for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII
22 of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136):
23 Provided, That $4,000,000,000 of the amount made avail24 able under this heading in this Act shall be distributed
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1 cations pursuant to that same formula in fiscal year 2020,
2 and that such allocations shall be made within 30 days
3 of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That, in addi4 tion to amounts allocated in the preceding proviso, remain5 ing amounts shall be allocated directly to a State or unit
6 of general local government by the formula specified in
7 the third proviso under this heading in title XII of division
8 B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided fur9 ther, That not later than 90 days after the date of enact10 ment of this Act and every 60 days thereafter, the Sec11 retary shall allocate a minimum of an additional
12 $500,000,000, pursuant to the formula referred to in the
13 preceding proviso, based on the best available data: Pro14 vided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts made
15 available under this heading in this Act may be trans16 ferred to ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Develop17 ment—Program Offices—Community Planning and De18 velopment’’ for necessary costs of administering and over19 seeing the obligation and expenditure of amounts under
20 this heading in this Act, to remain available until Sep21 tember 30, 2030: Provided further, That funds made avail22 able under this heading in this Act and under this heading
23 in title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law
24 116–136) may be used for eligible activities the Secretary
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1 mestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalk2 ing or to assist homeless youth, age 24 and under: Pro3 vided further, That amounts repurposed by this paragraph
4 that were previously designated by the Congress as an
5 emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget
6 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are des7 ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
8 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg9 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided
10 further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
11 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec12 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer13 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE
15 For activities and assistance authorized in section
16 110201 of the ‘‘COVID–19 HERO Act’’,
17 $100,000,000,000, to remain available until expended:
18 Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
19 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec20 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer21 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 HOUSING PROGRAMS
23 PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
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1 pended, and to be used under the same authority and con2 ditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
3 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
4 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That such
5 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
6 emergency requirement pursuant to section
7 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
8 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
9 HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY
10 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing for the El11 derly’’, $500,000,000, to remain available until September
12 30, 2023, and to be used under the same authority and
13 conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
14 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
15 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That not16 withstanding the first proviso under this heading in the
17 CARES Act, $300,000,000 of the amount made available
18 under this heading in this Act shall be for one-time grants
19 for service coordinators, as authorized under section 676
20 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992
21 (42 U.S.C. 13632), and the continuation of existing con22 gregate service grants for residents of assisted housing
23 projects: Provided further, That such amount is designated
24 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
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1 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg2 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing for Persons
5 with Disabilities’’, $200,000,000, to remain available until
6 September 30, 2023, and to be used under the same au7 thority and conditions as the additional appropriations for
8 fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division
9 B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided,
10 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
11 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
12 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
13 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE
15 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing Counseling
16 Assistance’’, for contracts, grants, and other assistance
17 excluding loans, as authorized under section 106 of the
18 Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968,
19 $100,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
20 2022, including up to $8,000,000 for administrative con21 tract services: Provided, That funds made available under
22 this heading in this Act shall be used for providing coun23 seling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current
24 and prospective, with respect to property maintenance, fi25 nancial management or literacy, foreclosure and eviction
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1 mitigation, and such other matters as may be appropriate
2 to assist them in improving their housing conditions, meet3 ing their financial needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities
4 of tenancy or homeownership; for program administration;
5 and for housing counselor training: Provided further, That
6 amounts made available under this heading in this Act
7 may be used to purchase equipment and technology to de8 liver services through use of the Internet or other elec9 tronic or virtual means in response to the public health
10 emergency related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019
11 (COVID–19) pandemic: Provided further, That for pur12 poses of providing such grants from amounts provided
13 under this heading, the Secretary may enter into
14 multiyear agreements, as appropriate, subject to the avail15 ability of annual appropriations: Provided further, That
16 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
17 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
18 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
19 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
21 FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Fair Housing Activi23 ties’’, $14,000,000, to remain available until September
24 30, 2022, and to be used under the same authority and
25 conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
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1 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
2 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That of the
3 funds made available under this heading in this Act,
4 $4,000,000 shall be for Fair Housing Organization Initia5 tive grants through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program
6 (FHIP), made available to existing grantees, which may
7 be used for fair housing activities and for technology and
8 equipment needs to deliver services through use of the
9 Internet or other electronic or virtual means in response
10 to the public health emergency related to the Coronavirus
11 Disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic: Provided further,
12 That of the funds made available under this heading in
13 this Act, $10,000,000 shall be for FHIP Education and
14 Outreach grants made available to previously-funded na15 tional media grantees and State and local education and
16 outreach grantees, to educate the public and the housing
17 industry about fair housing rights and responsibilities dur18 ing the COVID–19 pandemic: Provided further, That such
19 grants in the preceding proviso shall be divided evenly be20 tween the national media campaign and education and
21 outreach activities: Provided further, That such amount is
22 designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re23 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal24 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
2 (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
3 SEC. 10901. There is hereby appropriated from the
4 General Fund of the Treasury, for payment to the Airport
5 and Airway Trust Fund, an amount equal to the amount
6 authorized by section 9502(c) of title 26, United States
7 Code.
8 SEC. 10902. Amounts previously made available in
9 the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public
10 Law 113–6) for the heading ‘‘Department of Housing and
11 Urban Development—Public and Indian Housing—Choice
12 Neighborhoods Initiative’’ shall remain available for ex13 penditure for the purpose of paying valid obligations in14 curred prior to the expiration of such amounts through
15 September 30, 2021.
16 SEC. 10903. The provision under the heading ‘‘Office
17 of the Inspector General—Salaries and Expenses’’ in title
18 XII of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco19 nomic Security Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended by
20 striking ‘‘with funds made available in this Act to’’ and
21 inserting ‘‘by’’: Provided, That the amounts repurposed in
22 this section that were previously designated by the Con23 gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Bal24 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
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1 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 SEC. 10904. (a) Notwithstanding section
4 51309(a)(1)(B) of title 46, United States Code, for fiscal
5 year 2020, the Secretary of Transportation may confer the
6 degree of bachelor of science on an individual who has not
7 passed the examination for a merchant marine officer’s
8 license due to intervening efforts to prevent, prepare for,
9 and respond to coronavirus.
10 (b) The Secretary of Transportation may provide
11 such individual up to 1 year after receipt of such degree
12 to pass the examination for a merchant marine officer’s
13 license.
14 (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow
15 the provision of a license under section 7101 of title 46,
16 United States Code, to an individual who has not passed
17 the required examination.
18 SEC. 10905. (a) Notwithstanding section
19 51506(a)(3) of title 46, United States Code, for fiscal year
20 2020, the Secretary of Transportation may allow a State
21 maritime academy to waive a condition for graduation for
22 an individual to pass the examination required for the
23 issuance of a license under section 7101 of title 46, United
24 States Code, due to intervening efforts to prevent, prepare
25 for, and respond to coronavirus.
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1 (b) The Secretary of Transportation may provide
2 such individual up to 1 year after graduation to pass such
3 examination.
4 (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow
5 the provision of a license under section 7101 of title 46,
6 United States Code, to an individual who has not passed
7 the required examination.
8 SEC. 10906. Amounts made available under the head9 ings ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance,’’ ‘‘Housing for the
10 Elderly’’ and ‘‘Housing for Persons With Disabilities’’ in
11 title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law
12 116–136) and under such headings in this title of this Act
13 may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
14 to provide additional funds to maintain operations for
15 such housing, for providing supportive services, and for
16 taking other necessary actions to prevent, prepare for, and
17 respond to coronavirus, including to actions to self-isolate,
18 quarantine, or to provide other coronavirus infection con19 trol services as recommended by the Centers for Disease
20 Control and Prevention, including providing relocation
21 services for residents of such housing to provide lodging
22 at hotels, motels, or other locations: Provided, That the
23 amounts repurposed in this section that were previously
24 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
25 pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
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1 Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as
2 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
3 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
4 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
5 TITLE X
6 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS DIVISION
7 SEC. 11001. Not later than 30 days after the date
8 of enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agen9 cy that receives funding in any division of this Act, or that
10 received funding in the Coronavirus Preparedness and Re11 sponse Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (division
12 A of Public Law 116–123), the Second Coronavirus Pre13 paredness and Response Supplemental Appropriations
14 Act, 2020 (division A of Public Law 116–127), the
15 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), or the Paycheck Pro16 tection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (Pub17 lic Law 116–139) shall provide a report detailing the an18 ticipated uses of all such funding to the Committees on
19 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
20 Senate: Provided, That each report shall include estimated
21 personnel and administrative costs, as well as the total
22 amount of funding apportioned, allotted, obligated, and
23 expended, to date: Provided further, That each such report
24 shall be updated and submitted to such Committees every
25 60 days until all funds are expended or expire: Provided
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1 further, That reports submitted pursuant to this section
2 shall satisfy the requirements of section 1701 of division
3 A of Public Law 116–127.
4 SEC. 11002. Each amount appropriated or made
5 available by this Act is in addition to amounts otherwise
6 appropriated for the fiscal year involved.
7 SEC. 11003. No part of any appropriation contained
8 in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond
9 the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
10 SEC. 11004. Unless otherwise provided for by this
11 Act, the additional amounts appropriated by this Act to
12 appropriations accounts shall be available under the au13 thorities and conditions applicable to such appropriations
14 accounts for fiscal year 2020.
15 SEC. 11005. Each amount designated in this Act by
16 the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur17 suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
18 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be avail19 able (or rescinded or transferred, if applicable) only if the
20 President subsequently so designates all such amounts
21 and transmits such designations to the Congress.
22 SEC. 11006. Any amount appropriated by this Act,
23 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
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1 quently so designated by the President, and transferred
2 pursuant to transfer authorities provided by this Act shall
3 retain such designation.
4 SEC. 11007. (a) Any contract or agreement entered
5 into by an agency with a State or local government or any
6 other non-Federal entity for the purposes of providing cov7 ered assistance, including any information and documents
8 related to the performance of and compliance with such
9 contract or agreement, shall be—
10 (1) deemed an agency record for purposes of
11 section 552(f)(2) of title 5, United States Code; and
12 (2) subject to section 552 of title 5, United
13 States Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Freedom of
14 Information Act’’).
15 (b) In this section—
16 (1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given
17 the term in section 551 of title 5, United States
18 Code; and
19 (2) the term ‘‘covered assistance’’—
20 (A) means any assistance provided by an
21 agency in accordance with an Act or amend22 ments made by an Act to provide aid, assist23 ance, or funding related to the outbreak of
24 COVID–19 that is enacted before, on, or after
25 the date of enactment of this Act; and
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1 (B) includes any such assistance made
2 available by an agency under—
3 (i) this Act;
4 (ii) the Paycheck Protection Program
5 and Health Care Enhancement Act (Public
6 Law 116–139), or an amendment made by
7 that Act;
8 (iii) the CARES Act (Public Law
9 116–136), or an amendment made by that
10 Act;
11 (iv) the Families First Coronavirus
12 Response Act (Public Law 116–127), or an
13 amendment made by that Act; or
14 (v) the Coronavirus Preparedness and
15 Response Supplemental Appropriations
16 Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–123), or an
17 amendment made by that Act.
18 SEC. 11008. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
19 of law and in a manner consistent with other provisions
20 in any division of this Act, all laborers and mechanics em21 ployed by contractors and subcontractors on projects fund22 ed directly by or assisted in whole or in part by and
23 through the Federal Government pursuant to any division
24 of this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those
25 prevailing on projects of a character similar in the locality
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1 as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance
2 with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States
3 Code. With respect to the labor standards specified in this
4 section, the Secretary of Labor shall have the authority
5 and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered
6 14 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1267; 5 U.S.C. App.) and section
7 3145 of title 40, United States Code.
8 (b) The amounts provided by this section are des9 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re10 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal11 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 BUDGETARY EFFECTS
13 SEC. 11009. (a) STATUTORY PAYGO EMERGENCY
14 DESIGNATION.—The amounts provided under division B
15 and each succeeding division are designated as an emer16 gency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statu17 tory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
18 (b) SENATE PAYGO EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—
19 In the Senate, division B and each succeeding division are
20 designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec21 tion 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the
22 concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
23 (c) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.—
24 Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping
25 Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of
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1 port 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the
3 budgetary effects of division B and each succeeding divi4 sion—
5 (1) shall not be estimated for purposes of sec6 tion 251 of such Act; and
7 (2) shall be entered on the PAYGO scorecards
8 maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory
9 Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
10 (d) ENSURING NO WITHIN-SESSION SEQUESTRA11 TION.—Solely for the purpose of calculating a breach with12 in a category for fiscal year 2020 pursuant to section
13 251(a)(6) or section 254(g) of the Balanced Budget and
14 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and notwith15 standing any other provision of this division, the budg16 etary effects from this division shall be counted as
17 amounts designated as being for an emergency require18 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
19
20 This division may be cited as the ‘‘Coronavirus Re21 covery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020’’.
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer13 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
15 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
16 For an additional amount for ‘‘Program Manage17 ment’’, $150,000,000, to remain available through Sep18 tember 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
19 coronavirus, for State strike teams for resident and em20 ployee safety in skilled nursing facilities and nursing facili21 ties, including activities to support clinical care, infection
22 control, and staffing: Provided, That such amount is des23 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re24 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal25 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2 LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE
3 For an additional amount for ‘‘Low Income Home
4 Energy Assistance’’, $1,500,000,000, to remain available
5 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re6 spond to coronavirus, for making payments under sub7 section (b) of section 2602 of the Low-Income Home En8 ergy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.): Pro9 vided, That of the amount provided under this heading
10 in this Act, $750,000,000 shall be allocated as though the
11 total appropriation for such payments for fiscal year 2020
12 was less than $1,975,000,000: Provided further, That each
13 grantee that receives an allotment of funds made available
14 under this heading in this Act shall, for purposes of in15 come eligibility, deem to be eligible any household that
16 documents job loss or severe income loss dated after Feb17 ruary 29, 2020, such as a layoff or furlough notice or
18 verification of application for unemployment benefits: Pro19 vided further, That the limitation in section 2605(b)(9)(A)
20 of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981,
21 regarding planning and administering the use of funds,
22 shall apply to funds provided under this heading in this
23 Act by substituting ‘‘12.5 percent’’ for ‘‘10 percent’’: Pro24 vided further, That section 2607(b)(2)(B) of such Act (42
25 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(B)) shall not apply to funds made
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1 available under this heading in this Act: Provided further,
2 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
3 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
4 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
5 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND
7 DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Payments to States
9 for the Child Care and Development Block Grant’’,
10 $7,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
11 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,
12 including for Federal administrative expenses, which shall
13 be used to supplement, not supplant State, Territory, and
14 Tribal general revenue funds for child care assistance for
15 low-income families within the United States (including
16 territories) without regard to requirements in sections
17 658E(c)(3)(D)–(E) or section 658G of the Child Care and
18 Development Block Grant Act: Provided, That funds pro19 vided under this heading in this Act may be used for costs
20 of providing relief from copayments and tuition payments
21 for families and for paying that portion of the child care
22 provider’s cost ordinarily paid through family copayments,
23 to provide continued payments and assistance to child care
24 providers in the case of decreased enrollment or closures
25 related to coronavirus, and to ensure child care providers
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1 are able to remain open or reopen as appropriate and ap2 plicable: Provided further, That States, Territories, and
3 Tribes are encouraged to place conditions on payments to
4 child care providers that ensure that child care providers
5 use a portion of funds received to continue to pay the sala6 ries and wages of staff: Provided further, That lead agen7 cies shall, for the duration of the COVID–19 public health
8 emergency, implement enrollment and eligibility policies
9 that support the fixed costs of providing child care services
10 by delinking provider reimbursement rates from an eligible
11 child’s absence and a provider’s closure due to the
12 COVID–19 public health emergency: Provided further,
13 That the Secretary shall remind States that CCDBG State
14 plans do not need to be amended prior to utilizing existing
15 authorities in the Child Care and Development Block
16 Grant Act for the purposes provided herein: Provided fur17 ther, That States, Territories, and Tribes are authorized
18 to use funds appropriated under this heading in this Act
19 to provide child care assistance to health care sector em20 ployees, emergency responders, sanitation workers, farm21 workers, and other workers deemed essential during the
22 response to coronavirus by public officials, without regard
23 to the income eligibility requirements of section 658P(4)
24 of such Act: Provided further, That funds appropriated
25 under this heading in this Act shall be available to eligible
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1 child care providers under section 658P(6) of the CCDBG
2 Act, even if such providers were not receiving CCDBG as3 sistance prior to the public health emergency as a result
4 of the coronavirus, for the purposes of cleaning and sani5 tation, and other activities necessary to maintain or re6 sume the operation of programs: Provided further, That
7 no later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this
8 Act, each State, Territory, and Tribe that receives funding
9 under this heading in this Act shall submit to the Sec10 retary a report, in such manner as the Secretary may re11 quire, describing how the funds appropriated under this
12 heading in this Act will be spent and that no later than
13 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec14 retary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations
15 of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Com16 mittee on Education and Labor of the House of Rep17 resentatives, and the Committee on Health, Education,
18 Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report summarizing
19 such reports from the States, Territories, and Tribes: Pro20 vided further, That no later than October 31, 2021, each
21 State, Territory, and Tribe that receives funding under
22 this heading in this Act shall submit to the Secretary a
23 report, in such manner as the Secretary may require, de24 scribing how the funds appropriated under this heading
25 in this Act were spent and that no later than 60 days
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1 after receiving such reports from the States, Territories,
2 and Tribes, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees
3 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
4 Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor of the
5 House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health,
6 Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report
7 summarizing such reports from the States, Territories,
8 and Tribes: Provided further, That payments made under
9 this heading in this Act may be obligated in this fiscal
10 year or the succeeding two fiscal years: Provided further,
11 That funds appropriated under this heading in this Act
12 may be made available to restore amounts, either directly
13 or through reimbursement, for obligations incurred to pre14 vent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, prior to the
15 date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such
16 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
17 emergency requirement pursuant to section
18 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
19 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Children and Families
22 Services Programs’’, $1,590,000,000, to remain available
23 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re24 spond to coronavirus, which shall be used as follows:
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1 (1) $50,000,000 for Family Violence Prevention
2 and Services grants as authorized by section 303(a)
3 and 303(b) of the Family Violence Prevention and
4 Services Act with such funds available to grantees
5 without regard to matching requirements under sec6 tion 306(c)(4) of such Act, of which $2,000,000
7 shall be for the National Domestic Violence Hotline:
8 Provided, That the Secretary of Health and Human
9 Services may make such funds available for pro10 viding temporary housing and assistance to victims
11 of family, domestic, and dating violence;
12 (2) $20,000,000 for necessary expenses for
13 community-based grants for the prevention of child
14 abuse and neglect under section 209 of the Child
15 Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which the
16 Secretary shall make without regard to sections
17 203(b)(1) and 204(4) of such Act; and
18 (3) $20,000,000 for necessary expenses for the
19 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act State
20 Grant program as authorized by Section 112 of such
21 Act;
22 (4) $1,500,000,000 for necessary expenses for
23 grants to carry out the Low-Income Household
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1 gram, as described in section 190703 of division S
2 of this Act.
3 Provided, That funds made available under this heading
4 in this Act may be used for the purposes provided herein
5 to reimburse costs incurred between January 20, 2020,
6 and the date of award: Provided further, That funds ap7 propriated by the CARES Act (P.L.116–136) to carry out
8 the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9901
9 et seq.) and received by a State shall be made available
10 to eligible entities (as defined in section 673(1)(A) of such
11 Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(1)(A)) not later than either 30 days
12 after such State receives such funds or 30 days after the
13 date of the enactment of this Act, whichever occurs later:
14 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
15 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
16 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
17 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
18 ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING
19 AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAMS
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Aging and Disability
21 Services Programs’’, $100,000,000, to remain available
22 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re23 spond to the coronavirus: Provided, That of the amount
24 made available under this heading in this Act,
25 $85,000,000 shall be for activities authorized under the
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1 Older Americans Act of 1965 (‘‘OAA’’) and activities au2 thorized under part B of title XX of the Social Security
3 Act, including $20,000,000 for supportive services under
4 part B of title III; $19,000,000 for nutrition services
5 under subparts 1 and 2 of part C of title III; $1,000,000
6 for nutrition services under title VI; $20,000,000 for sup7 portive services for family caregivers under part E of title
8 III; $10,000,000 for evidence-based health promotion and
9 disease prevention services under part D of title III;
10 $10,000,000 for elder rights protection activities, includ11 ing the long-term ombudsman program under title VI; and
12 $5,000,000 shall be for grants to States to support the
13 network of statewide senior legal services, including exist14 ing senior legal hotlines, efforts to expand such hotlines
15 to all interested States, and legal assistance to providers,
16 in order to ensure seniors have access to legal assistance,
17 with such fund allotted to States consistent with para18 graphs (1) through (3) of section 304(a) of the OAA: Pro19 vided further, That State matching requirements under
20 sections 304(d)(1)(D) and 373(g)(2) of the OAA shall not
21 apply to funds made available under this heading: Pro22 vided further, That of the amount made available under
23 this heading in this Act, $10,000,000 shall be for activities
24 authorized in the Developmental Disabilities Assistance
25 and Bill of Rights Act of 2000: Provided further, That
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1 of the amount made available under this heading in this
2 Act, $5,000,000 shall be for activities authorized in the
3 Assistive Technology Act of 2004: Provided further, That
4 of the amount made available in the preceding proviso,
5 $5,000,000 shall be for the purchase of equipment to allow
6 interpreters to provide appropriate and essential services
7 to the hearing-impaired community: Provided further,
8 That for the purposes of the funding provided in the pre9 ceding proviso, during the emergency period described in
10 section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act, for pur11 poses of section 4(e)(2)(A) of the Assistive Technology Act
12 of 2004, the term ‘‘targeted individuals and entities’’ (as
13 that term is defined in section 3(16) of the Assistive Tech14 nology Act of 2004) shall be deemed to include American
15 Sign Language certified interpreters who are providing in16 terpretation services remotely for individuals with disabil17 ities: Provided further, That during such emergency pe18 riod, for the purposes of the previous two provisos, to fa19 cilitate the ability of individuals with disabilities to remain
20 in their homes and practice social distancing, the Sec21 retary shall waive the prohibitions on the use of grant
22 funds for direct payment for an assistive technology device
23 for an individual with a disability under sections
24 4(e)(2)(A) and 4(e)(5) of such Act: Provided further, That
25 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
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1 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
2 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
3 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
4 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
5 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY
6 FUND
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and So8 cial Services Emergency Fund’’, $4,575,000,000, to re9 main available until September 30, 2024, to prevent, pre10 pare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or
11 internationally, including the development of necessary
12 countermeasures and vaccines, prioritizing platform-based
13 technologies with U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities,
14 the purchase of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, nec15 essary medical supplies, as well as medical surge capacity,
16 addressing blood supply chain, workforce modernization,
17 telehealth access and infrastructure, initial advanced man18 ufacturing, novel dispensing, enhancements to the U.S.
19 Commissioned Corps, and other preparedness and re20 sponse activities: Provided, That funds appropriated under
21 this paragraph in this Act may be used to develop and
22 demonstrate innovations and enhancements to manufac23 turing platforms to support such capabilities: Provided
24 further, That the Secretary of Health and Human Services
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1 able under this paragraph in this Act to respond to an
2 outbreak or pandemic related to coronavirus in quantities
3 determined by the Secretary to be adequate to address the
4 public health need: Provided further, That products pur5 chased by the Federal government with funds made avail6 able under this paragraph in this Act, including vaccines,
7 therapeutics, and diagnostics, shall be purchased in ac8 cordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation guidance on
9 fair and reasonable pricing: Provided further, That the
10 Secretary may take such measures authorized under cur11 rent law to ensure that vaccines, therapeutics, and
12 diagnostics developed from funds provided in this Act will
13 be affordable in the commercial market: Provided further,
14 That in carrying out the previous proviso, the Secretary
15 shall not take actions that delay the development of such
16 products: Provided further, That products purchased with
17 funds appropriated under this paragraph in this Act may,
18 at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human
19 Services, be deposited in the Strategic National Stockpile
20 under section 319F–2 of the Public Health Service Act:
21 Provided further, That funds appropriated under this
22 paragraph in this Act may be transferred to, and merged
23 with, the fund authorized by section 319F–4, the Covered
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1 able under this paragraph in this Act, $3,500,000,000
2 shall be available to the Biomedical Advanced Research
3 and Development Authority for necessary expenses of ad4 vanced research, development, manufacturing, production,
5 and purchase of vaccines and therapeutics: Provided fur6 ther, That of the amount made available under this para7 graph in this Act, $500,000,000 shall be available to the
8 Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Author9 ity for the construction, renovation, or equipping of U.S.-
10 based next generation manufacturing facilities, other than
11 facilities owned by the United States Government: Pro12 vided further, That of the amount made available under
13 this paragraph in this Act, $500,000,000 shall be available
14 to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development
15 Authority to promote innovation in antibacterial research
16 and development: Provided further, That funds made
17 available under this paragraph in this Act may be used
18 for grants for the rent, lease, purchase, acquisition, con19 struction, alteration, or renovation of non-Federally owned
20 facilities to improve preparedness and response capability
21 at the State and local level: Provided further, That funds
22 appropriated under this paragraph in this Act may be
23 used for the construction, alteration, renovation or equip24 ping of non-Federally owned facilities for the production
25 of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and medicines and
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1 other items purchased under section 319F–2(a) of the
2 Public Health Service Act where the Secretary determines
3 that such a contract is necessary to assure sufficient do4 mestic production of such supplies: Provided further, That
5 all construction, alteration, or renovation work, carried
6 out, in whole or in part, with fund appropriated under this
7 heading in this Act, the CARES Act (P.L. 116–136), or
8 the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care En9 hancement Act (P.L. 116–139), shall be subject to the re10 quirements of 42 U.S.C. 300s-1(b)(1)(I): Provided further,
11 That not later than seven days after the date of enactment
12 of this Act, and weekly thereafter until the public health
13 emergency related to coronavirus is no longer in effect,
14 the Secretary shall report to the Committees on Appro15 priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
16 on the current inventory of ventilators and personal pro17 tective equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile, in18 cluding the numbers of face shields, gloves, goggles and
19 glasses, gowns, head covers, masks, and respirators, as
20 well as deployment of ventilators and personal protective
21 equipment during the previous week, reported by state and
22 other jurisdiction: Provided further, That after the date
23 that a report is required to be submitted by the preceding
24 proviso, amounts made available for ‘‘Department of
25 Health and Human Services—Office of the Secretary—
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1 General Departmental Management’’ in Public Law 116–
2 94 for salaries and expenses of the Immediate Office of
3 the Secretary shall be reduced by $250,000 for each day
4 that such report has not been submitted: Provided further,
5 That not later than the first Monday in February of fiscal
6 year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary
7 shall include in the annual budget submission for the De8 partment, and submit to the Congress, the Secretary’s re9 quest with respect to expenditures necessary to maintain
10 the minimum level of relevant supplies in the Strategic
11 National Stockpile, including in case of a significant pan12 demic, in consultation with the working group under sec13 tion 319F(a) of the Public Health Service Act and the
14 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures En15 terprise established under section 2811–1 of such Act:
16 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
17 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
18 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
19 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and So21 cial Services Emergency Fund’’, $100,000,000,000, to re22 main available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and
23 respond to coronavirus, for necessary expenses to make
24 payments under the Health Care Provider Relief Fund as
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1 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
2 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec3 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer4 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
5 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and So6 cial Services Emergency Fund’’, $75,000,000,000, to re7 main available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and
8 respond to coronavirus, for necessary expenses to carry
9 out the COVID-19 National Testing and Contact Tracing
10 Initiative, as described in subtitle D of division C of this
11 Act: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
12 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
13 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
14 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
16 STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND
17 For an additional amount for ‘‘State Fiscal Stabiliza18 tion Fund’’, $90,000,000,000, to remain available until
19 September 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond
20 to coronavirus: Provided, That the Secretary of Education
21 (referred to under this heading as ‘‘Secretary’’) shall make
22 grants to the Governor of each State for support of ele23 mentary, secondary, and postsecondary education and, as
24 applicable, early childhood education programs and serv25 ices: Provided further, That of the amount made available,
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1 the Secretary shall first allocate up to one-half of 1 per2 cent to the outlying areas and one-half of 1 percent to
3 the Bureau of Indian Education (‘‘BIE’’) for activities
4 consistent with this heading under such terms and condi5 tions as the Secretary may determine: Provided further,
6 That the Secretary may reserve up to $30,000,000 for ad7 ministration and oversight of the activities under this
8 heading: Provided further, That the Secretary shall allo9 cate 61 percent of the remaining funds made available to
10 carry out this heading to the States on the basis of their
11 relative population of individuals aged 5 through 24 and
12 allocate 39 percent on the basis of their relative number
13 of children counted under section 1124(c) of the Elemen14 tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (referred to
15 under this heading as ‘‘ESEA’’) as State grants: Provided
16 further, That State grants shall support statewide elemen17 tary, secondary, and postsecondary activities; subgrants to
18 local educational agencies; and, subgrants to public insti19 tutions of higher education: Provided further, That States
20 shall allocate 65 percent of the funds received under the
21 sixth proviso as subgrants to local educational agencies in
22 proportion to the amount of funds such local educational
23 agencies received under part A of title I of the ESEA in
24 the most recent fiscal year: Provided further, That States
25 shall allocate 30 percent of the funds received under the
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1 sixth proviso as subgrants to public institutions of higher
2 education, of which 75 percent shall be apportioned ac3 cording to the relative share of students who received Pell
4 Grants who are not exclusively enrolled in distance edu5 cation courses prior to the coronavirus emergency at the
6 institution in the previous award year and 25 percent shall
7 be apportioned according to the total enrollment of stu8 dents at the institution who are not exclusively enrolled
9 in distance education courses prior to the coronavirus
10 emergency at the institution in the previous award year:
11 Provided further, That the Governor shall return to the
12 Secretary any funds received that the Governor does not
13 award to local educational agencies and public institutions
14 of higher education or otherwise commit within two years
15 of receiving such funds, and the Secretary shall reallocate
16 such funds to the remaining States in accordance with the
17 sixth proviso: Provided further, That Governors shall use
18 State grants and subgrants to maintain or restore State
19 and local fiscal support for elementary, secondary and
20 postsecondary education: Provided further, That funds for
21 local educational agencies may be used for any activity au22 thorized by the ESEA, including the Native Hawaiian
23 Education Act and the Alaska Native Educational Equity,
24 Support, and Assistance Act, the Individuals with Disabil25 ities Education Act (‘‘IDEA’’), subtitle B of title VII of
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1 the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act , the Adult
2 Education and Family Literacy Act or the Carl D. Perkins
3 Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (‘‘the Per4 kins Act’’): Provided further, That a State or local edu5 cational agency receiving funds under this heading may
6 use the funds for activities coordinated with State, local,
7 tribal, and territorial public health departments to detect,
8 prevent, or mitigate the spread of infectious disease or
9 otherwise respond to coronavirus; support online learning
10 by purchasing educational technology and internet access
11 for students, which may include assistive technology or
12 adaptive equipment, that aids in regular and substantive
13 educational interactions between students and their class14 room instructor; provide ongoing professional development
15 to staff in how to effectively provide quality online aca16 demic instruction; provide assistance for children and fam17 ilies to promote equitable participation in quality online
18 learning; plan and implement activities related to summer
19 learning, including providing classroom instruction or
20 quality online learning during the summer months; plan
21 for and coordinate during long-term closures, provide tech22 nology for quality online learning to all students, and how
23 to support the needs of low-income students, racial and
24 ethnic minorities, students with disabilities, English learn25 ers, students experiencing homelessness, and children in
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1 foster care, including how to address learning gaps that
2 are created or exacerbated due to long-term closures; sup3 port the continuity of student engagement through social
4 and emotional learning; and other activities that are nec5 essary to maintain the operation of and continuity of serv6 ices in local educational agencies, including maintaining
7 employment of existing personnel, and reimbursement for
8 eligible costs incurred during the national emergency: Pro9 vided further, That a public institution of higher education
10 that receives funds under this heading shall use funds for
11 education and general expenditures (including defraying
12 expenses due to lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses
13 already incurred, and payroll) and grants to students for
14 expenses directly related to coronavirus and the disruption
15 of campus operations (which may include emergency fi16 nancial aid to students for food, housing, technology,
17 health care, and child care costs that shall not be required
18 to be repaid by such students) or for the acquisition of
19 technology and services directly related to the need for dis20 tance education and the training of faculty and staff to
21 use such technology and services: Provided further, That
22 priority shall be given to under-resourced institutions, in23 stitutions with high burden due to the coronavirus, and
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1 ther, That any institution of higher education that is not
2 otherwise eligible for a grant of at least $1,000,000 under
3 this heading shall be eligible to receive an amount equal
4 to whichever is lesser of the total loss of revenue and in5 creased costs associated with the coronavirus or
6 $1,000,000: Provided further, That an institution of high7 er education may not use funds received under this head8 ing to increase its endowment or provide funding for cap9 ital outlays associated with facilities related to athletics,
10 sectarian instruction, or religious worship: Provided fur11 ther, That funds may be used to support hourly workers,
12 such as education support professionals, classified school
13 employees, and adjunct and contingent faculty: Provided
14 further, That a Governor of a State desiring to receive an
15 allocation under this heading shall submit an application
16 at such time, in such manner, and containing such infor17 mation as the Secretary may reasonably require: Provided
18 further, That the Secretary shall issue a notice inviting
19 applications not later than 15 days after the date of enact20 ment of this Act: Provided further, That any State receiv21 ing funding under this heading shall maintain its percent
22 of total spending on elementary, secondary, and postsec23 ondary education in fiscal year 2019 for fiscal years 2020,
24 2021, and 2022: Provided further, That a State’s applica25 tion shall include assurances that the State will maintain
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1 support for elementary and secondary education in fiscal
2 year 2020, fiscal year 2021, and fiscal year 2022 at least
3 at the level of such support that is the average of such
4 State’s support for elementary and secondary education
5 in the 3 fiscal years preceding the date of enactment of
6 this Act: Provided further, That a State’s application shall
7 include assurances that the State will maintain State sup8 port for higher education (not including support for cap9 ital projects or for research and development or tuition
10 and fees paid by students) in fiscal year 2020, fiscal year
11 2021, and fiscal year 2022 at least at the level of such
12 support that is the average of such State’s support for
13 higher education (which shall include State and local gov14 ernment funding to institutions of higher education and
15 state need-based financial aid) in the 3 fiscal years pre16 ceding the date of enactment of this Act, and that any
17 such State’s support for higher education funding, as cal18 culated as spending for public higher education per full19 time equivalent student, shall be the same in fiscal year
20 2022 as it was in fiscal year 2019: Provided further, That
21 in such application, the Governor shall provide baseline
22 data that demonstrates the State’s current status in each
23 of the areas described in such assurances in the preceding
24 provisos: Provided further, That a State’s application shall
25 include assurances that the State will not construe any
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1 provisions under this heading as displacing any otherwise
2 applicable provision of any collective-bargaining agreement
3 between an eligible entity and a labor organization as de4 fined by section 2(5) of the National Labor Relations Act
5 (29 U.S.C. 152(5)) or analogous State law: Provided fur6 ther, That a State’s application shall include assurances
7 that the State shall maintain the wages, benefits, and
8 other terms and conditions of employment set forth in any
9 collective-bargaining agreement between the eligible entity
10 and a labor organization, as defined in the preceding pro11 viso: Provided further, That a State’s application shall in12 clude assurances that all students with disabilities are af13 forded their full rights under IDEA, including all rights
14 and services outlined in individualized education programs
15 (‘‘IEPs’’): Provided further, That a State receiving funds
16 under this heading shall submit a report to the Secretary,
17 at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may
18 require, that describes the use of funds provided under
19 this heading: Provided further, That no recipient of funds
20 under this heading shall use funds to provide financial as21 sistance to students to attend private elementary or sec22 ondary schools, unless such funds are used to provide spe23 cial education and related services to children with disabil24 ities whose IEPs require such placement, and where the
25 school district maintains responsibility for providing such
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1 children a free appropriate public education, as authorized
2 by IDEA: Provided further, That a local educational agen3 cy, State, institution of higher education, or other entity
4 that receives funds under ‘‘State Fiscal Stabilization
5 Fund’’, shall to the greatest extent practicable, continue
6 to pay its employees and contractors during the period of
7 any disruptions or closures related to coronavirus: Pro8 vided further, That the terms ‘‘elementary education’’ and
9 ‘‘secondary education’’ have the meaning given such terms
10 under State law: Provided further, That the term ‘‘institu11 tion of higher education’’ has the meaning given such term
12 in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965: Pro13 vided further, That the term ‘‘fiscal year’’ shall have the
14 meaning given such term under State law: Provided fur15 ther, That the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 States,
16 the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puer17 to Rico: Provided further, That such amount is designated
18 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
19 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg20 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
21 HIGHER EDUCATION
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Higher Education’’,
23 $10,150,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
24 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,
25 of which $11,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘National
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1 Technical Institute for the Deaf’’ to help defray expenses
2 (which may include lost revenue, reimbursement for ex3 penses already incurred, technology costs associated with
4 a transition to distance education, sign language and cap5 tioning costs associated with a transition to distance edu6 cation, faculty and staff trainings, and payroll) directly
7 caused by coronavirus and to enable emergency financial
8 aid to students for expenses directly related to coronavirus
9 and the disruption of university operations (which may in10 clude food, housing, transportation, technology, health
11 care, and child care), of which $20,000,000 shall be trans12 ferred to ‘‘Howard University’’ to help defray expenses
13 (which may include lost revenue, reimbursement for ex14 penses already incurred, technology costs associated with
15 a transition to distance education, technology costs associ16 ated with a transition to distance education, faculty and
17 staff trainings, and payroll) directly related to coronavirus
18 and to enable grants to students for expenses directly re19 lated to coronavirus and the disruption of university oper20 ations (which may include food, housing, transportation,
21 technology, health care, and child care), of which
22 $11,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Gallaudet Univer23 sity’’ to help defray expenses (which may include lost rev24 enue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, tech25 nology costs associated with a transition to distance eduVerDate Mar 15 2010 12:13 May 12, 2020 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\MSJOYNER\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL.0\GEN\C\HEROES.X
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1 cation, sign language and captioning costs associated with
2 a transition to distance education, faculty and staff
3 trainings, and payroll) directly related to coronavirus and
4 to enable grants to students for expenses directly related
5 to coronavirus and the disruption of university operations
6 (which may include food, housing, transportation, tech7 nology, health care, and child care), and of which the re8 maining amounts shall be used to carry out parts A and
9 B of title III, parts A and B of title V, subpart 4 of part
10 A of title VII, and part B of title VII of the Higher Edu11 cation Act of 1965 (‘‘HEA’’) as follows:
12 (1) $1,708,000,000 for parts A and B of title
13 III, parts A and B of title V, and subpart 4 of part
14 A of title VII of the HEA to address needs directly
15 related to coronavirus: Provided, That such amount
16 shall be allocated by the Secretary proportionally to
17 such programs covered under this paragraph and
18 based on the relative share of funding appropriated
19 to such programs in the Further Consolidated Ap20 propriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) and
21 distributed to institutions of higher education as fol22 lows:
23 (A) Except as otherwise provided in sub24 paragraph (B), for eligible institutions under
25 part B of title III and subpart 4 of part A of
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1 title VII of the Higher Education Act, the Sec2 retary shall allot to each eligible institution an
3 amount using the following formula:
4 (i) 70 percent according to a ratio
5 equivalent to the number of Pell Grant re6 cipients in attendance at such institution
7 at the end of the school year preceding the
8 beginning of that fiscal year and the total
9 number of Pell Grant recipients at all such
10 institutions;
11 (ii) 20 percent according to a ratio
12 equivalent to the total number of students
13 enrolled at such institution at the end of
14 the school year preceding the beginning of
15 that fiscal year and the number of stu16 dents enrolled at all such institutions; and
17 (iii) 10 percent according to a ratio
18 equivalent to the total endowment size at
19 all eligible institutions at the end of the
20 school year preceding the beginning of that
21 fiscal year and the total endowment size at
22 such institutions;
23 (B) For eligible institutions under section
24 326 of the Higher Education Act, the Secretary
25 shall allot to each eligible institution an amount
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1 in proportion to the award received from fund2 ing for such institutions in the Further Consoli3 dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law
4 116–94);
5 (C) For eligible institutions under section
6 316 of the Higher Education Act, the Secretary
7 shall allot funding according to the formula in
8 section 316(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act;
9 (D) Notwithstanding section 318(f) of the
10 Higher Education Act, for eligible institutions
11 under section 318 of the Higher Education Act,
12 the Secretary shall allot funding according to
13 the formula in section 318(e) of the Higher
14 Education Act;
15 (E) Except as provided in subparagraphs
16 (C) and (D), for eligible institutions under part
17 A of title III of the Higher Education Act and
18 parts A and B of title V, the Secretary shall
19 issue an application for eligible institutions to
20 demonstrate unmet need, and the Secretary
21 shall allow eligible institutions to apply for
22 funds under one of the programs for which they
23 are eligible.
24 (2) $8,400,000,000 for part B of title VII of
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1 fined in section 101 or 102(c) of the HEA) to ad2 dress needs directly related to coronavirus as follows:
3 (A) $7,000,000,000 shall be provided to
4 private, non-profit institutions of higher edu5 cation apportioning it—
6 (i) 75 percent according to the rel7 ative share of enrollment of Federal Pell
8 Grant recipients who are not exclusively
9 enrolled in distance education courses prior
10 to the coronavirus emergency, and
11 (ii) 25 percent according to the rel12 ative share of the total equivalent enroll13 ment of students who were not Federal
14 Pell Grant recipients who are not exclu15 sively enrolled in distance education
16 courses prior to the coronavirus emer17 gency.
18 (B) $1,400,000,000 shall be for institu19 tions of higher education (as defined in section
20 101 of the Higher Education Act) with unmet
21 need related to the coronavirus, including insti22 tutions of higher education that offer their
23 courses and programs exclusively through dis24 tance education:
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1 Provided, That funds shall be used to make payments to
2 such institutions to provide emergency grants to students
3 who attended such institutions at any point during the
4 coronavirus emergency and for any component of the stu5 dent’s cost of attendance (as defined under section 472
6 of the HEA), including food, housing, course materials,
7 technology, health care, and child care): Provided further,
8 That institutions of higher education may use such funds
9 to defray expenses (including lost revenue, reimbursement
10 for expenses already incurred, technology costs associated
11 with a transition to distance education, faculty and staff
12 trainings, and payroll) incurred by institutions of higher
13 education: Provided further, That such payments shall not
14 be used to increase endowments or provide funding for
15 capital outlays associated with facilities related to ath16 letics, sectarian instruction, or religious worship: Provided
17 further, That any institution of higher education that is
18 not otherwise eligible for a grant of at least $1,000,000
19 under paragraph (2)(A) of this heading and has a total
20 enrollment of at least 500 students shall be eligible to re21 ceive an amount equal to whichever is the lesser of the
22 total loss of revenue and increased costs associated with
23 the coronavirus or $1,000,000: Provided further, That
24 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
25 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
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1 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
2 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
4 SEC. 10602. Amounts made available to ‘‘Depart5 ment of Education—Office of Inspector General’’ in title
6 VIII of division B of Public Law 116–136 are hereby per7 manently rescinded, and an amount of additional new
8 budget authority equivalent to the amount rescinded is
9 hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended,
10 for the same purposes and under the same authorities as
11 they were originally appropriated, and shall be in addition
12 to any other funds available for such purposes: Provided,
13 That the amounts appropriated by this section may also
14 be used for investigations and are available until ex15 pended: Provided further, That such amount is designated
16 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
17 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg18 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 SEC. 10603. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco20 nomic Security Act (P.L. 116–136) is amended by striking
21 section 18001(a)(3): Provided, That amounts repurposed
22 by this section that were previously designated by the Con23 gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Bal24 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
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1 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 SEC. 10604. Section 18005(a) of the Coronavirus
4 Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116–136)
5 is amended by inserting ‘‘with these funds only for chil6 dren identified under section 1115(c) of the ESEA in the
7 school district served by a local educational agency who
8 are enrolled in private elementary schools and secondary
9 schools’’ after ‘‘equitable services’’: Provided, That
10 amounts repurposed by this section that were previously
11 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
12 pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
13 Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as
14 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
15 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
16 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
17 SEC. 10605. Section 18004(c) of the Coronavirus
18 Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116–136)
19 is amended by striking ‘‘to cover any costs associated with
20 significant changes to the delivery of instruction due to
21 the coronavirus’’ and inserting ‘‘to defray expenses (in22 cluding lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already
23 incurred, technology costs associated with a transition to
24 distance education, faculty and staff trainings, payroll) in25 curred by institutions of higher education.’’: Provided,
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1 That amounts repurposed by this section that were pre2 viously designated by the Congress as an emergency re3 quirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer4 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the
5 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec6 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer7 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 SEC. 10606. With respect to the allocation and award
9 of funds under this title, the Secretary of Education is
10 prohibited from—
11 (a) establishing a priority or preference not specified
12 in this title; and
13 (b) imposing limits on the use of such funds not spec14 ified in this title.
15 RELATED AGENCIES
16 CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY
17 SERVICE
18 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—CORPORATION FOR
19 NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
20 SEC. 10607. (a) The remaining unobligated balances
21 of funds as of September 30, 2020, from amounts pro22 vided to ‘‘Corporation for National and Community Serv23 ice—Salaries and Expenses’’ in title IV of division A of
24 the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Pub25 lic Law 116–94), are hereby permanently rescinded, and
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1 an amount of additional new budget authority equal to
2 the unobligated balances rescinded is hereby appropriated
3 on September 30, 2020, to remain available until Sep4 tember 30, 2021, for the same purposes and under the
5 same authorities that they were originally made available
6 in Public Law 116–94, which shall be in addition to any
7 other funds available for such purposes: Provided, That
8 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
9 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
10 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
11 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 (b) The remaining unobligated balances of funds as
13 of September 30, 2020, from amounts provided to ‘‘Cor14 poration for National and Community Service—Operating
15 Expenses’’ in title IV of division A of the Further Consoli16 dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94), are
17 hereby permanently rescinded, and an amount of addi18 tional new budget authority equal to the unobligated bal19 ances rescinded is hereby appropriated on September 30,
20 2020, to remain available until September 30, 2021, for
21 the same purposes and under the same authorities that
22 they were originally made available in Public Law 116–
23 94, which shall be in addition to any other funds available
24 for such purposes: Provided, That any amounts appro25 priated by the preceding proviso shall not be subject to
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1 the allotment requirements otherwise applicable under sec2 tions 129(a), (b), (d), and (e) of the National and Commu3 nity Service Act of 1993: Provided further, That such
4 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
5 emergency requirement pursuant to section
6 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
7 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 (c) The remaining unobligated balances of funds as
9 of September 30, 2020, from amounts provided to ‘‘Cor10 poration for National and Community Service—Office of
11 Inspector General’’ in title IV of division A of the Further
12 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–
13 94), are hereby permanently rescinded, and an amount of
14 additional new budget authority equal to the amount re15 scinded is hereby appropriated on September 30, 2020,
16 to remain available until September 30, 2021, for the
17 same purposes and under the same authorities that they
18 were originally made available in Public Law 116–94,
19 which shall be in addition to any other funds available for
20 such purposes: Provided, That such amount is designated
21 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
22 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg23 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
24 (d)(1) Section 3514(b) of title III of division A of
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1 plied hereafter as if such subsection had never been en2 acted.
3 (2)(A) IN GENERAL.—The budgetary effects of
4 this subsection are designated as an emergency re5 quirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory
6 Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
7 (B) DESIGNATION IN THE SENATE.—In the
8 Senate, this subsection is designated as an emer9 gency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H.
10 Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent reso11 lution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
12 (C) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EF13 FECTS.—Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget
14 Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint ex15 planatory statement of the committee of conference
16 accompanying Conference Report 105–217 and sec17 tion 250(c)(7) and (c)(8) of the Balanced Budget
18 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the
19 budgetary effects of this subsection—
20 (i) shall not be estimated for purposes of
21 section 251 of such Act; and
22 (ii) shall be entered on the PAYGO score23 cards maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of
24 the Statutory Pay As-You-Go Act of 2010.
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1 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES
2 OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS
3 AND ADMINISTRATION
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘Institute of Museum
5 and Library Services’’, $5,000,000, to remain available
6 until September 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and re7 spond to coronavirus, including grants to States, terri8 tories, tribes, museums, and libraries, to expand digital
9 network access, purchase internet accessible devices, pro10 vide technical support services, and for operational ex11 penses: Provided, That any matching funds requirements
12 for States, tribes, libraries, and museums are waived for
13 grants provided with funds made available under this
14 heading in this Act: Provided further, That such amount
15 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
16 requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
17 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
18 1985.
19 RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
20 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Limitation on Admin22 istration’’, $4,500,000, to remain available until Sep23 tember 30, 2021, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
24 coronavirus, including the expeditious dispensation of rail25 road unemployment insurance benefits, and to support
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1 full-time equivalents and overtime hours as needed to ad2 minister the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: Pro3 vided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
4 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec5 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer6 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
7 LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of the Inspector
9 General’’, $500,000, to remain available until expended,
10 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, in11 cluding salaries and expenses necessary for oversight, in12 vestigations and audits of the Railroad Retirement Board
13 and railroad unemployment insurance benefits funded in
14 this Act and Public Law 116–136: Provided, That such
15 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
16 emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
20 SEC. 10608. Notwithstanding any other provision of
21 law, funds made available under each heading in this title
22 shall only be used for the purposes specifically described
23 under that heading.
24 SEC. 10609. Funds appropriated by this title may be
25 used by the Secretary of the Health and Human Services
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1 to appoint, without regard to the provisions of sections
2 3309 through 3319 of title 5 of the United States Code,
3 candidates needed for positions to perform critical work
4 relating to coronavirus for which—
5 (1) public notice has been given; and
6 (2) the Secretary has determined that such a
7 public health threat exists.
8 SEC. 10610. Funds made available by this title may
9 be used to enter into contracts with individuals for the
10 provision of personal services (as described in section 104
11 of part 37 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations (48
12 CFR 37.104)) to support the prevention of, preparation
13 for, or response to coronavirus, domestically and inter14 nationally, subject to prior notification to the Committees
15 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
16 Senate: Provided, That such individuals may not be
17 deemed employees of the United States for the purpose
18 of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Man19 agement: Provided further, That the authority made avail20 able pursuant to this section shall expire on September
21 30, 2024.
22 SEC. 10611. Not later than 30 days after the date
23 of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and
24 Human Services shall provide a detailed spend plan of an25 ticipated uses of funds made available to the Department
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1 of Health and Human Services in this Act, including esti2 mated personnel and administrative costs, to the Commit3 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
4 and the Senate: Provided, That such plans shall be up5 dated and submitted to such Committees every 60 days
6 until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That the
7 spend plans shall be accompanied by a listing of each con8 tract obligation incurred that exceeds $5,000,000 which
9 has not previously been reported, including the amount of
10 each such obligation.
11 SEC. 10612. No later than September 30, 2020, the
12 remaining unobligated balances of funds made available
13 through September 30, 2020, under the heading ‘‘Na14 tional Institutes of Health’’ in the Further Consolidated
15 Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) are hereby
16 permanently rescinded, and an amount of additional new
17 budget authority equivalent to the amount rescinded from
18 each account is hereby appropriated to that account, to
19 remain available until September 30, 2021, and shall be
20 available for the same purposes, in addition to other funds
21 as may be available for such purposes, and under the same
22 authorities for which the funds were originally provided
23 in Public Law 116–94: Provided, That such amount is
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1 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal2 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 SEC. 10613. Funds made available in Public Law
4 113–235 to the accounts of the National Institutes of
5 Health that were available for obligation through fiscal
6 year 2015 and were obligated for multi-year research
7 grants shall be available through fiscal year 2021 for the
8 liquidation of valid obligations if the Director of the Na9 tional Insitutes of Health determines the project suffered
10 an interruption of activities attributable to SARS–CoV–
11 2: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Con12 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
13 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
14 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 SEC. 10614. Of the funds appropriated by this title
16 under the heading ‘‘Public Health and Social Services
17 Emergency Fund’’, $75,000,000 shall be transferred to,
18 and merged with, funds made available under the heading
19 ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Office of Inspector General’’, and
20 shall remain available until expended, for oversight of ac21 tivities supported with funds appropriated to the Depart22 ment of Health and Human Services in this Act: Provided,
23 That the Inspector General of the Department of Health
24 and Human Services shall consult with the Committees
25 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
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1 Senate prior to obligating such funds: Provided further,
2 That the transfer authority provided by this section is in
3 addition to any other transfer authority provided by law.
4 TITLE VII—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
5 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
6 For an additional amount for the ‘‘House of Rep7 resentatives’’, $5,000,000, to remain available until Sep8 tember 30, 2021, for necessary expenses to prevent, pre9 pare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That the
10 amounts made available under this heading in this Act
11 shall be allocated in accordance with a spend plan sub12 mitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the House
13 of Representatives by the Chief Administrative Officer and
14 approved by such Committee: Provided further, That such
15 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
16 emergency requirement pursuant to section
17 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
18 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
19 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
20 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
21 For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex22 penses’’, $30,000,000, to remain available until expended,
23 for audits and investigations relating to COVID–19 or
24 similar pandemics, as well as any related stimulus funding
25 to assist the Nation’s response to health and economic
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1 vulnerabilities to pandemics: Provided, That, not later
2 than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the
3 Government Accountability Office shall submit to the
4 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent5 atives and the Senate a spend plan specifying funding esti6 mates and a timeline for such audits and investigations:
7 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
8 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
9 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
10 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
11 TITLE VIII—DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN
12 OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS
13 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
14 ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
15 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
16 For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector
17 General’’, $2,000,000, to remain available until September
18 30, 2022, for oversight of funds administered by the De19 partment of State and made available to prevent, prepare
20 for, and respond to coronavirus by this title and by prior
21 acts: Provided, That such amount is designated by the
22 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
23 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
24 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 GENERAL PROVISIONS — THIS TITLE
2 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
3 SEC. 10801. Section 21005 of the Emergency Appro4 priations for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency
5 Operations (division B of Public Law 116–136) is amend6 ed by inserting at the end before the period ‘‘and is further
7 amended by striking ‘$5,563,619’ in the second proviso
8 under the heading ‘Repatriation Loans Program Account’
9 and inserting in lieu thereof ‘$15,563,619’ ’’.
10 SEC. 10802. Section 21009 of the Emergency Appro11 priations for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency
12 Operations (division B of Public Law 116–136) is amend13 ed by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ and inserting in lieu
14 thereof ‘‘fiscal years 2020 and 2021’’: Provided, That the
15 amount provided by this section is designated by the Con16 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
17 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
18 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 TITLE IX
2 TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN
3 DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES
4 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
5 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
6 OPERATIONS
7 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations’’,
8 $75,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
9 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus:
10 Provided, That amounts made available under this head11 ing in this Act shall be derived from the general fund,
12 of which not less than $1,000,000 shall be for the Admin13 istrator to seek to enter into an agreement not later than
14 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act with a
15 research organization established under chapter 1503 of
16 title 36, United States Code, to conduct a study to deter17 mine whether the environmental controls systems in com18 mercial airliners recirculate pathogens in the cabin air and
19 to assess existing and potential technological solutions to
20 reduce pathogen recirculation and to mitigate any elevated
21 risk of exposure to pathogens in the cabin air: Provided
22 further That such amount is designated by the Congress
23 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec24 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer25 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
2 HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS
3 For an additional amount for ‘‘Highway Infrastruc4 ture Programs’’, $15,000,000,000, to remain available
5 until expended: Provided, That the funds made available
6 under this heading shall be derived from the general fund,
7 shall be in addition to any funds provided for fiscal year
8 2020 in this or any other Act for ‘‘Federal-aid Highways’’
9 under chapters 1 or 2 of title 23, United States Code,
10 and shall not affect the distribution or amount of funds
11 provided in any other Act: Provided further, That notwith12 standing chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, or any
13 other provision of law, a State, territory, Puerto Rico, or
14 Indian Tribe may use funds made available under this
15 heading in this Act for activities eligible under section
16 133(b) of title 23, United States Code, for administrative
17 and operations expenses, including salaries of employees
18 (including those employees who have been placed on ad19 ministrative leave) or contractors, information technology
20 needs, and availability payments: Provided further, That
21 of the funds made available under this heading,
22 $14,775,000,000 shall be available for States,
23 $150,000,000 shall be available for the Tribal Transpor24 tation Program, as described in section 202 of title 23,
25 United States Code, $60,000,000 shall be available for the
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1 Puerto Rico Highway Program, as described in section
2 165(b)(2)(C)(iii) of such title; and $15,000,000 shall be
3 available for under the Territorial Highway Program, as
4 described in section 165(c)(6) of such title: Provided fur5 ther, That for the purposes of funds made available under
6 this heading the term ‘‘State’’ means any of the 50 States
7 or the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the
8 funds made available under this heading for States shall
9 be apportioned to States in the same ratio as the obliga10 tion limitation for fiscal year 2020 was distributed among
11 the States in accordance with the formula specified in sec12 tion 120(a)(5) of division H of Public Law 116–94 and
13 shall be apportioned not later than 30 days after the date
14 of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the funds
15 made available under this heading shall be administered
16 as if apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United
17 States Code, except that activities eligible under the Tribal
18 Transportation Program shall be administered as if allo19 cated under chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code: Pro20 vided further, That funds apportioned to a State under
21 this heading shall be suballocated within the State to areas
22 described in subsection 133(d)(1)(A)(i) of title 23, United
23 States Code, in the same ratio that funds suballocated to
24 those areas for fiscal year 2020 bears to the total amount
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1 way program under section 104 of such title for fiscal year
2 2020: Provided further, That of funds made available
3 under this heading for activities eligible under section
4 133(b) of title 23, United States Code, any such activity
5 shall be subject to the requirements of section 133(i) of
6 such title: Provided further, That, except as provided in
7 the following proviso, the funds made available under this
8 heading for activities eligible under the Puerto Rico High9 way Program and activities eligible under the Territorial
10 Highway Program shall be administered as if allocated
11 under sections 165(b) and 165(c), respectively, of such
12 title: Provided further, That the funds made available
13 under this heading for activities eligible under the Puerto
14 Rico Highway Program shall not be subject to the require15 ments of sections 165(b)(2)(A) or 165(b)(2)(B) of such
16 title: Provided further, That for amounts subject to the
17 obligation limitation under the heading ‘‘Department of
18 Transportation—Federal Highway Administration—Fed19 eral-aid Highways—(Limitation on Obligations)—(High20 way Trust Fund)’’ in Public Law 116–94 for fiscal year
21 2020 that are obligated after the date of enactment of this
22 Act, and for any amounts made available under this head23 ing in this Act, the Federal share of the costs shall be,
24 at the option of the State, District of Columbia, territory,
25 Puerto Rico, or Indian Tribe, up to 100 percent, and may
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1 be available for administrative and operations expenses,
2 including salaries of employees (including those employees
3 who have been placed on administrative leave) or contrac4 tors, information technology needs, and availability pay5 ments: Provided further, That section 120(c) of Public
6 Law 116–94 shall not apply for fiscal year 2020, and that
7 amounts that would otherwise have been redistributed by
8 section 120(c) shall be retained by States and shall be
9 available for their original purpose until September 30,
10 2021, except that such amounts shall be subject to such
11 redistribution in fiscal year 2021: Provided further, That
12 amounts made available under section 147 of title 23,
13 United States Code, for fiscal years 2019 and 2020 are
14 available for the administrative and operating expenses of
15 eligible entities related to the response to a coronavirus
16 public health emergency beginning on January 20, 2020,
17 reimbursement for administrative and operating costs to
18 maintain service including the purchase of personal pro19 tective equipment, and paying the administrative leave of
20 operations personnel due to reductions in service: Provided
21 further, That funds made available for administrative and
22 operating expenses authorized for fiscal year 2020 in Pub23 lic Law 116–94 or in this Act under this heading are not
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1 gram under sections 134 or 135 of title 23, United States
2 Code, or chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, as
3 applicable: Provided further, That unless otherwise speci4 fied, applicable requirements under title 23, United States
5 Code, shall apply to funds made available under this head6 ing: Provided further, That the Administrator of the Fed7 eral Highway Administration may retain up to one half
8 of one percent of the funds made available under this
9 heading to fund the oversight by the Administrator of ac10 tivities carried out with funds made available under this
11 heading: Provided further, That such amount is designated
12 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
13 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg14 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
15 FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
16 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMERGENCY RELIEF
17 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Transportation
18 Emergency Relief’’, $15,750,000,000, to remain available
19 until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
20 coronavirus: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated
21 under this heading in this Act—
22 (1) $11,750,000,000 shall be for grants to ur23 banized areas with populations over 3,000,000 and
24 shall be allocated in the same ratio as funds were
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1 cent of the amounts provided in this paragraph shall
2 be allocated as if such funds were provided under
3 section 5307 of title 49, United States Code and ap4 portioned in accordance with section 5338 of such
5 title (other than subsection (b)(3) and (c)(1)(A))
6 and 85 percent of the amounts provided in this
7 paragraph shall be allocated under section 5337 of
8 such title and apportioned in accordance with such
9 section: Provided further, That funds provided under
10 section 5337 shall be added to funds apportioned
11 under section 5307 for administration in accordance
12 with provisions under section 5307: Provided further,
13 That for urbanized areas with multiple subrecipi14 ents, funds provided under section 5337 in this
15 paragraph shall be distributed among subrecipients
16 using the same ratio used to distribute funds made
17 available for section 5337 in fiscal year 2020; and
18 (2) $4,000,000,000 shall be for grants to tran19 sit agencies that, as a result of coronavirus, require
20 significant additional assistance to maintain basic
21 transit services: Provided, That such funds shall be
22 administered as if they were provided under section
23 5324 of title 49, United States Code: Provided fur24 ther, That any recipient or subrecipient of funds
25 under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, or
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1 an intercity bus service provider that has, between
2 October 1, 2018 and January 20, 2020, partnered
3 with a recipient or subrecipient in order to meet the
4 requirements of section 5311(f) of such title shall be
5 eligible to directly apply for funds under this para6 graph: Provided further, That entities that are not
7 recipients or subrecipients of funds under chapter 53
8 of title 49 but are eligible for grants under this
9 heading in this Act shall be eligible to receive not
10 more than 18.75 percent of the total funds provided
11 under this paragraph: Provided further, That such
12 entities shall use assistance provided under this
13 heading only for workforce retention or, the recall or
14 rehire of any laid off, furloughed, or terminated em15 ployee, associated with the provision of bus service:
16 Provided further, That, the Secretary shall issue a
17 Notice of Funding Opportunity not later than 30
18 days after the date of enactment of this Act and
19 that such Notice of Funding Opportunity shall re20 quire application submissions not later than 45 days
21 after the enactment of this Act: Provided further,
22 That the Secretary shall make awards not later than
23 45 days after the application deadline: Provided fur24 ther, That the Secretary shall require grantees to
25 provide estimates of financial need, data on reduced
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1 ridership, and a spending plan for funds: Provided
2 further, That when evaluating applications for assist3 ance, the Secretary shall give priority to transit
4 agencies with the largest revenue loss as a percent5 age of their operating expenses: Provided further,
6 That if applications for assistance do not exceed
7 available funds, the Secretary shall reserve the re8 maining amounts for grantees to prevent, prepare
9 for, and respond to coronavirus and shall accept ap10 plications on a rolling basis: Provided further, That
11 if amounts made available under this heading in this
12 Act remain unobligated on December 31, 2021, such
13 amounts shall be available for any purpose eligible
14 under section 5324 of title 49, United States Code:
15 Provided further, That the provision of funds under this
16 section shall not affect the ability of any other agency of
17 the Government, including the Federal Emergency Man18 agement Agency, or State agency, a local governmental
19 entity, organization, or person, to provide any other funds
20 otherwise authorized by law: Provided further, That not21 withstanding subsection (a)(1) or (b) of section 5307 of
22 title 49, United States Code, subsection (a)(1) of section
23 5324 of such title, or any provision of chapter 53 of title
24 49, funds provided under this heading in this Act are
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1 lated to the response to a coronavirus public health emer2 gency, including, beginning on January 20, 2020, reim3 bursement for operating costs to maintain service and lost
4 revenue due to the coronavirus public health emergency,
5 including the purchase of personal protective equipment,
6 and paying the administrative leave of operations or con7 tractor personnel due to reductions in service: Provided
8 further, That to the maximum extent possible, funds made
9 available under this heading in this Act and in title XII
10 of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136)
11 shall be directed to payroll and public transit service, un12 less the recipient certifies to the Secretary they have not
13 furloughed any employees: Provided further, That such op14 erating expenses are not required to be included in a
15 transportation improvement program, long-range trans16 portation plan, statewide transportation plan, or a state17 wide transportation improvement program: Provided fur18 ther, That the Secretary shall not waive the requirements
19 of section 5333 of title 49, United States Code, for funds
20 appropriated under this heading in this Act: Provided fur21 ther, That unless otherwise specified, applicable require22 ments under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code,
23 shall apply to funding made available under this heading
24 in this Act, except that the Federal share of the costs for
25 which any grant is made under this heading in this Act
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1 shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 100 percent:
2 Provided further, That the amount made available under
3 this heading in this Act shall be derived from the general
4 fund and shall not be subject to any limitation on obliga5 tions for transit programs set forth in any Act: Provided
6 further, That not more than one-half of one percent of the
7 funds for transit infrastructure grants provided under this
8 heading in this Act shall be available for administrative
9 expenses and ongoing program management oversight as
10 authorized under sections 5334 and 5338(f)(2) of title 49,
11 United States Code, and shall be in addition to any other
12 appropriations for such purpose: Provided further, That
13 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
14 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
15 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
16 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
17 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
18 DEVELOPMENT
19 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING
20 TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
21 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental
23 Assistance’’, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until ex24 pended, and to be used under the same authority and con25 ditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
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1 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
2 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), except that any
3 amounts provided for administrative expenses and other
4 expenses of public housing agencies for their section 8 pro5 grams, including Mainstream vouchers, under this heading
6 in the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) and under this
7 heading in this Act shall also be available for Housing As8 sistance Payments under section 8(o) of the United States
9 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)): Provided,
10 That amounts made available under this heading in this
11 Act and under the same heading in title XII of division
12 B of the CARES Act may be used to cover or reimburse
13 allowable costs incurred to prevent, prepare for, and re14 spond to coronavirus regardless of the date on which such
15 costs were incurred: Provided further, That of the amounts
16 made available under this heading in this Act,
17 $500,000,000 shall be available for administrative ex18 penses and other expenses of public housing agencies for
19 their section 8 programs, including Mainstream vouchers:
20 Provided further, That of the amounts made available
21 under this heading in this Act, $2,500,000,000 shall be
22 available for adjustments in the calendar year 2020 sec23 tion 8 renewal funding allocations, including Mainstream
24 vouchers, for public housing agencies that experience a
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1 traordinary circumstances or that, despite taking reason2 able cost savings measures, as determined by the Sec3 retary, would otherwise be required to terminate rental as4 sistance for families as a result of insufficient funding:
5 Provided further, That of the amounts made available
6 under this heading in this Act, $1,000,000,000 shall be
7 used for incremental rental voucher assistance under sec8 tion 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for
9 use by individuals and families who are—homeless, as de10 fined under section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Home11 less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a)); at risk of home12 lessness, as defined under section 401(1) of the McKin13 ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1));
14 or fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating
15 violence, sexual assault, or stalking: Provided further, That
16 the Secretary shall allocate amounts made available in the
17 preceding proviso to public housing agencies not later than
18 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, according
19 to a formula that considers the ability of the public hous20 ing agency to use vouchers promptly and the need of geo21 graphical areas based on factors to be determined by the
22 Secretary, such as risk of transmission of coronavirus,
23 high numbers or rates of sheltered and unsheltered home24 lessness, and economic and housing market conditions:
25 Provided further, That if a public housing authority elects
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1 not to administer or does not promptly issue all of its au2 thorized vouchers within a reasonable period of time, the
3 Secretary shall reallocate any unissued vouchers and asso4 ciated funds to other public housing agencies according
5 to the criteria in the preceding proviso: Provided further,
6 That a public housing agency shall not reissue any vouch7 ers under this heading in this Act for incremental rental
8 voucher assistance when assistance for the family initially
9 assisted is terminated: Provided further, That upon termi10 nation of incremental rental voucher assistance under this
11 heading in this Act for one or more families assisted by
12 a public housing agency, the Secretary shall reallocate
13 amounts that are no longer needed by such public housing
14 agency for assistance under this heading in this Act to
15 another public housing agency for the renewal of vouchers
16 previously authorized under this heading in this Act: Pro17 vided further, That amounts made available in this para18 graph are in addition to any other amounts made available
19 for such purposes: Provided further, That up to 0.5 per20 cent of the amounts made available under this heading
21 in this Act may be transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Depart22 ment of Housing and Urban Development, Program Of23 fices—Public and Indian Housing’’ to supplement existing
24 resources for the necessary costs of administering and
25 overseeing the obligation and expenditure of these
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1 amounts, to remain available until September 30, 2024:
2 Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
3 Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant
4 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
5 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
6 PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND
7 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Housing Oper9 ating Fund’’, as authorized by section 9(e) of the United
10 States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)),
11 $2,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
12 2021, and to be used under the same authority and condi13 tions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year 2020
14 under this heading in title XII of division B of the CARES
15 Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That amounts made
16 available under this heading in this Act and under the
17 same heading in title XII of division B of the CARES Act
18 may be used to cover or reimburse allowable costs incurred
19 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus re20 gardless of the date on which such costs were incurred:
21 Provided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts
22 made available under this heading in this Act may be
23 transferred, in aggregate, to ‘‘Department of Housing and
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1 essary costs of administering and overseeing the obligation
2 and expenditure of these amounts, to remain available
3 until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That such
4 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
5 emergency requirement pursuant to section
6 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
7 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
8 COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
9 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
10 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing Opportuni11 ties for Persons with AIDS’’, $15,000,000, to remain
12 available until September 30, 2021, and to be used under
13 the same authority and conditions as the additional appro14 priations for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title
15 XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–
16 136): Provided, That amounts provided under this heading
17 in this Act that are allocated pursuant to section 854(c)(5)
18 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901
19 et seq.) shall remain available until September 30, 2022:
20 Provided further, That not less than $15,000,000 of the
21 amount provided under this heading in this Act shall be
22 allocated pursuant to the formula in section 854 of such
23 Act using the same data elements as utilized pursuant to
24 that same formula in fiscal year 2020: Provided further,
25 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
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1 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
2 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
3 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
4 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND
5 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
6 For an additional amount for ‘‘Community Develop7 ment Fund’’, $5,000,000,000, to remain available until
8 September 30, 2023, and to be used under the same au9 thority and conditions as the additional appropriations for
10 fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division
11 B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided,
12 That such amount made available under this heading in
13 this Act shall be distributed pursuant to section 106 of
14 the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
15 (42 U.S.C. 5306) to grantees that received allocations
16 pursuant to such formula in fiscal year 2020, and that
17 such allocations shall be made within 30 days of enact18 ment of this Act: Provided further, That in administering
19 funds under this heading, an urban county shall consider
20 needs throughout the entire urban county configuration
21 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Pro22 vided further, That up to $100,000,000 of amounts made
23 available under this heading in this Act may be used to
24 make new awards or increase prior awards to existing
25 technical assistance providers: Provided further, That of
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1 the amounts made available under this heading in this
2 Act, up to $25,000,000 may be transferred to ‘‘Depart3 ment of Housing and Urban Development, Program Of4 fices—Community Planning and Development’’ for nec5 essary costs of administering and overseeing the obligation
6 and expenditure of amounts under this heading in this
7 Act, to remain available until September 30, 2028: Pro8 vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con9 gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to
10 section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
11 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
13 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
14 For an additional amount for ‘‘Homeless Assistance
15 Grants’’, $11,500,000,000, to remain available until Sep16 tember 30, 2025, for the Emergency Solutions Grants pro17 gram as authorized under subtitle B of title IV of the
18 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
19 11371 et seq.), as amended, and to be used under the
20 same authority and conditions as the additional appropria21 tions for fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII
22 of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136):
23 Provided, That $4,000,000,000 of the amount made avail24 able under this heading in this Act shall be distributed
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1 cations pursuant to that same formula in fiscal year 2020,
2 and that such allocations shall be made within 30 days
3 of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That, in addi4 tion to amounts allocated in the preceding proviso, remain5 ing amounts shall be allocated directly to a State or unit
6 of general local government by the formula specified in
7 the third proviso under this heading in title XII of division
8 B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided fur9 ther, That not later than 90 days after the date of enact10 ment of this Act and every 60 days thereafter, the Sec11 retary shall allocate a minimum of an additional
12 $500,000,000, pursuant to the formula referred to in the
13 preceding proviso, based on the best available data: Pro14 vided further, That up to 0.5 percent of the amounts made
15 available under this heading in this Act may be trans16 ferred to ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Develop17 ment—Program Offices—Community Planning and De18 velopment’’ for necessary costs of administering and over19 seeing the obligation and expenditure of amounts under
20 this heading in this Act, to remain available until Sep21 tember 30, 2030: Provided further, That funds made avail22 able under this heading in this Act and under this heading
23 in title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law
24 116–136) may be used for eligible activities the Secretary
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1 mestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalk2 ing or to assist homeless youth, age 24 and under: Pro3 vided further, That amounts repurposed by this paragraph
4 that were previously designated by the Congress as an
5 emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget
6 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are des7 ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
8 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg9 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided
10 further, That such amount is designated by the Congress
11 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec12 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer13 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE
15 For activities and assistance authorized in section
16 110201 of the ‘‘COVID–19 HERO Act’’,
17 $100,000,000,000, to remain available until expended:
18 Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress
19 as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec20 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer21 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
22 HOUSING PROGRAMS
23 PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE
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1 pended, and to be used under the same authority and con2 ditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
3 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
4 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That such
5 amount is designated by the Congress as being for an
6 emergency requirement pursuant to section
7 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
8 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
9 HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY
10 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing for the El11 derly’’, $500,000,000, to remain available until September
12 30, 2023, and to be used under the same authority and
13 conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
14 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
15 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That not16 withstanding the first proviso under this heading in the
17 CARES Act, $300,000,000 of the amount made available
18 under this heading in this Act shall be for one-time grants
19 for service coordinators, as authorized under section 676
20 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992
21 (42 U.S.C. 13632), and the continuation of existing con22 gregate service grants for residents of assisted housing
23 projects: Provided further, That such amount is designated
24 by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
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1 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg2 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing for Persons
5 with Disabilities’’, $200,000,000, to remain available until
6 September 30, 2023, and to be used under the same au7 thority and conditions as the additional appropriations for
8 fiscal year 2020 under this heading in title XII of division
9 B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided,
10 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being
11 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
12 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
13 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14 HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE
15 For an additional amount for ‘‘Housing Counseling
16 Assistance’’, for contracts, grants, and other assistance
17 excluding loans, as authorized under section 106 of the
18 Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968,
19 $100,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
20 2022, including up to $8,000,000 for administrative con21 tract services: Provided, That funds made available under
22 this heading in this Act shall be used for providing coun23 seling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current
24 and prospective, with respect to property maintenance, fi25 nancial management or literacy, foreclosure and eviction
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1 mitigation, and such other matters as may be appropriate
2 to assist them in improving their housing conditions, meet3 ing their financial needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities
4 of tenancy or homeownership; for program administration;
5 and for housing counselor training: Provided further, That
6 amounts made available under this heading in this Act
7 may be used to purchase equipment and technology to de8 liver services through use of the Internet or other elec9 tronic or virtual means in response to the public health
10 emergency related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019
11 (COVID–19) pandemic: Provided further, That for pur12 poses of providing such grants from amounts provided
13 under this heading, the Secretary may enter into
14 multiyear agreements, as appropriate, subject to the avail15 ability of annual appropriations: Provided further, That
16 such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
17 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
18 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
19 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
20 FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
21 FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES
22 For an additional amount for ‘‘Fair Housing Activi23 ties’’, $14,000,000, to remain available until September
24 30, 2022, and to be used under the same authority and
25 conditions as the additional appropriations for fiscal year
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1 2020 under this heading in title XII of division B of the
2 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136): Provided, That of the
3 funds made available under this heading in this Act,
4 $4,000,000 shall be for Fair Housing Organization Initia5 tive grants through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program
6 (FHIP), made available to existing grantees, which may
7 be used for fair housing activities and for technology and
8 equipment needs to deliver services through use of the
9 Internet or other electronic or virtual means in response
10 to the public health emergency related to the Coronavirus
11 Disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic: Provided further,
12 That of the funds made available under this heading in
13 this Act, $10,000,000 shall be for FHIP Education and
14 Outreach grants made available to previously-funded na15 tional media grantees and State and local education and
16 outreach grantees, to educate the public and the housing
17 industry about fair housing rights and responsibilities dur18 ing the COVID–19 pandemic: Provided further, That such
19 grants in the preceding proviso shall be divided evenly be20 tween the national media campaign and education and
21 outreach activities: Provided further, That such amount is
22 designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re23 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal24 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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1 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
2 (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
3 SEC. 10901. There is hereby appropriated from the
4 General Fund of the Treasury, for payment to the Airport
5 and Airway Trust Fund, an amount equal to the amount
6 authorized by section 9502(c) of title 26, United States
7 Code.
8 SEC. 10902. Amounts previously made available in
9 the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public
10 Law 113–6) for the heading ‘‘Department of Housing and
11 Urban Development—Public and Indian Housing—Choice
12 Neighborhoods Initiative’’ shall remain available for ex13 penditure for the purpose of paying valid obligations in14 curred prior to the expiration of such amounts through
15 September 30, 2021.
16 SEC. 10903. The provision under the heading ‘‘Office
17 of the Inspector General—Salaries and Expenses’’ in title
18 XII of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Eco19 nomic Security Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended by
20 striking ‘‘with funds made available in this Act to’’ and
21 inserting ‘‘by’’: Provided, That the amounts repurposed in
22 this section that were previously designated by the Con23 gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Bal24 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
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1 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
3 SEC. 10904. (a) Notwithstanding section
4 51309(a)(1)(B) of title 46, United States Code, for fiscal
5 year 2020, the Secretary of Transportation may confer the
6 degree of bachelor of science on an individual who has not
7 passed the examination for a merchant marine officer’s
8 license due to intervening efforts to prevent, prepare for,
9 and respond to coronavirus.
10 (b) The Secretary of Transportation may provide
11 such individual up to 1 year after receipt of such degree
12 to pass the examination for a merchant marine officer’s
13 license.
14 (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow
15 the provision of a license under section 7101 of title 46,
16 United States Code, to an individual who has not passed
17 the required examination.
18 SEC. 10905. (a) Notwithstanding section
19 51506(a)(3) of title 46, United States Code, for fiscal year
20 2020, the Secretary of Transportation may allow a State
21 maritime academy to waive a condition for graduation for
22 an individual to pass the examination required for the
23 issuance of a license under section 7101 of title 46, United
24 States Code, due to intervening efforts to prevent, prepare
25 for, and respond to coronavirus.
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1 (b) The Secretary of Transportation may provide
2 such individual up to 1 year after graduation to pass such
3 examination.
4 (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow
5 the provision of a license under section 7101 of title 46,
6 United States Code, to an individual who has not passed
7 the required examination.
8 SEC. 10906. Amounts made available under the head9 ings ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance,’’ ‘‘Housing for the
10 Elderly’’ and ‘‘Housing for Persons With Disabilities’’ in
11 title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law
12 116–136) and under such headings in this title of this Act
13 may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
14 to provide additional funds to maintain operations for
15 such housing, for providing supportive services, and for
16 taking other necessary actions to prevent, prepare for, and
17 respond to coronavirus, including to actions to self-isolate,
18 quarantine, or to provide other coronavirus infection con19 trol services as recommended by the Centers for Disease
20 Control and Prevention, including providing relocation
21 services for residents of such housing to provide lodging
22 at hotels, motels, or other locations: Provided, That the
23 amounts repurposed in this section that were previously
24 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
25 pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
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1 Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as
2 an emergency requirement pursuant to section
3 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
4 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
5 TITLE X
6 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS DIVISION
7 SEC. 11001. Not later than 30 days after the date
8 of enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agen9 cy that receives funding in any division of this Act, or that
10 received funding in the Coronavirus Preparedness and Re11 sponse Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (division
12 A of Public Law 116–123), the Second Coronavirus Pre13 paredness and Response Supplemental Appropriations
14 Act, 2020 (division A of Public Law 116–127), the
15 CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), or the Paycheck Pro16 tection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (Pub17 lic Law 116–139) shall provide a report detailing the an18 ticipated uses of all such funding to the Committees on
19 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
20 Senate: Provided, That each report shall include estimated
21 personnel and administrative costs, as well as the total
22 amount of funding apportioned, allotted, obligated, and
23 expended, to date: Provided further, That each such report
24 shall be updated and submitted to such Committees every
25 60 days until all funds are expended or expire: Provided
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1 further, That reports submitted pursuant to this section
2 shall satisfy the requirements of section 1701 of division
3 A of Public Law 116–127.
4 SEC. 11002. Each amount appropriated or made
5 available by this Act is in addition to amounts otherwise
6 appropriated for the fiscal year involved.
7 SEC. 11003. No part of any appropriation contained
8 in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond
9 the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
10 SEC. 11004. Unless otherwise provided for by this
11 Act, the additional amounts appropriated by this Act to
12 appropriations accounts shall be available under the au13 thorities and conditions applicable to such appropriations
14 accounts for fiscal year 2020.
15 SEC. 11005. Each amount designated in this Act by
16 the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pur17 suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget
18 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be avail19 able (or rescinded or transferred, if applicable) only if the
20 President subsequently so designates all such amounts
21 and transmits such designations to the Congress.
22 SEC. 11006. Any amount appropriated by this Act,
23 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
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1 quently so designated by the President, and transferred
2 pursuant to transfer authorities provided by this Act shall
3 retain such designation.
4 SEC. 11007. (a) Any contract or agreement entered
5 into by an agency with a State or local government or any
6 other non-Federal entity for the purposes of providing cov7 ered assistance, including any information and documents
8 related to the performance of and compliance with such
9 contract or agreement, shall be—
10 (1) deemed an agency record for purposes of
11 section 552(f)(2) of title 5, United States Code; and
12 (2) subject to section 552 of title 5, United
13 States Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Freedom of
14 Information Act’’).
15 (b) In this section—
16 (1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given
17 the term in section 551 of title 5, United States
18 Code; and
19 (2) the term ‘‘covered assistance’’—
20 (A) means any assistance provided by an
21 agency in accordance with an Act or amend22 ments made by an Act to provide aid, assist23 ance, or funding related to the outbreak of
24 COVID–19 that is enacted before, on, or after
25 the date of enactment of this Act; and
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1 (B) includes any such assistance made
2 available by an agency under—
3 (i) this Act;
4 (ii) the Paycheck Protection Program
5 and Health Care Enhancement Act (Public
6 Law 116–139), or an amendment made by
7 that Act;
8 (iii) the CARES Act (Public Law
9 116–136), or an amendment made by that
10 Act;
11 (iv) the Families First Coronavirus
12 Response Act (Public Law 116–127), or an
13 amendment made by that Act; or
14 (v) the Coronavirus Preparedness and
15 Response Supplemental Appropriations
16 Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–123), or an
17 amendment made by that Act.
18 SEC. 11008. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
19 of law and in a manner consistent with other provisions
20 in any division of this Act, all laborers and mechanics em21 ployed by contractors and subcontractors on projects fund22 ed directly by or assisted in whole or in part by and
23 through the Federal Government pursuant to any division
24 of this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those
25 prevailing on projects of a character similar in the locality
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1 as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance
2 with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States
3 Code. With respect to the labor standards specified in this
4 section, the Secretary of Labor shall have the authority
5 and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered
6 14 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1267; 5 U.S.C. App.) and section
7 3145 of title 40, United States Code.
8 (b) The amounts provided by this section are des9 ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re10 quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal11 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
12 BUDGETARY EFFECTS
13 SEC. 11009. (a) STATUTORY PAYGO EMERGENCY
14 DESIGNATION.—The amounts provided under division B
15 and each succeeding division are designated as an emer16 gency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statu17 tory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
18 (b) SENATE PAYGO EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—
19 In the Senate, division B and each succeeding division are
20 designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec21 tion 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the
22 concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
23 (c) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.—
24 Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping
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1 port 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced
2 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the
3 budgetary effects of division B and each succeeding divi4 sion—
5 (1) shall not be estimated for purposes of sec6 tion 251 of such Act; and
7 (2) shall be entered on the PAYGO scorecards
8 maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory
9 Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
10 (d) ENSURING NO WITHIN-SESSION SEQUESTRA11 TION.—Solely for the purpose of calculating a breach with12 in a category for fiscal year 2020 pursuant to section
13 251(a)(6) or section 254(g) of the Balanced Budget and
14 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and notwith15 standing any other provision of this division, the budg16 etary effects from this division shall be counted as
17 amounts designated as being for an emergency require18 ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
19
20 This division may be cited as the ‘‘Coronavirus Re21 covery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020’’.
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