[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3638 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3638

To allow Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to be used to replace revenue 
                  shortfalls resulting from COVID-19.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 2020

Mr. Sullivan (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Murkowski, Mrs. Capito, 
Mr. Cramer, and Mr. King) introduced the following bill; which was read 
         twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To allow Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to be used to replace revenue 
                  shortfalls resulting from COVID-19.

    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 ``Coronavirus Relief Fund Flexibility 
Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND PAYMENTS TO REPLACE LOST 
              REVENUE.

    Effective as if included in the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, 
Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116-136), subsection (d) 
of section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) 
of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, 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 to cover only those costs of the State, Tribal government, or 
unit of local government that--
            ``(1) are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public 
        health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 
        (COVID-19) during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and 
        ends on December 31, 2020; or
            ``(2) are necessary to replace State or government revenue 
        shortfalls resulting from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
        19) during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on 
        December 31, 2020.''.
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