[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6508 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6508

To amend title VI of the Social Security Act to expand the permissible 
            use of funds under the Coronavirus Relief Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2020

 Mr. Morelle (for himself, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Nadler, Mr. 
  Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Ryan, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. 
 Soto, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Trone, Mr. Grijalva, 
Ms. Haaland, Ms. Omar, and Ms. DeLauro) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title VI of the Social Security Act to expand the permissible 
            use of funds under the Coronavirus Relief Fund.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``State Operations Stabilization (SOS) 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF PERMISSIBLE USE OF FUNDS UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS 
              RELIEF FUND.

    Section 601(d) of the Social Security Act, as added by section 
5001(a) of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136), is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(d) Use of Funds.--A State, Tribal government, and unit of local 
government shall use the funds provided under a payment made under this 
section--
            ``(1) to cover those costs of the State, Tribal government, 
        or unit of local government that--
                    ``(A) are necessary expenditures incurred due to 
                the public health emergency with respect to the 
                Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19);
                    ``(B) were not accounted for in the budget most 
                recently approved as of the date of enactment of this 
                section for the State or government; and
                    ``(C) were incurred during the period that begins 
                on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 30, 2020; or
            ``(2) to reduce a budget deficit of the State or government 
        that occurred with respect to such period due to a loss of 
        revenue related to such public health emergency.''.
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