[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 5, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4956-S4957]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2586. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PASS-THROUGH OF PORTION OF STATE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF 
                   FUND TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

       (a) Pass-Through Requirement.--Subsection (b) of section 
     601 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 801) is amended--

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       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Subject to paragraph 
     (2)'' and inserting ``Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)''; 
     and
       (2) by adding at the end the following
       ``(3) Pass-through requirement.--Each State shall 
     distribute 45 percent of the amount paid to the State under 
     this section for fiscal year 2020 (after the application of 
     paragraph (2)) upon receipt on a pass-through basis, and 
     without requiring any application, to each unit of local 
     government in the State that is not a large unit of local 
     government that received a direct payment under this section 
     in accordance with paragraph (2). The preceding distribution 
     requirement shall not apply to the District of Columbia.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 601 of such Act is 
     further amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting ``large'' 
     before ``unit of local government'' each place it appears; 
     and
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``large'' before 
     ``units''; and
       (ii) by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of 
     this section, the term `large unit of local government' means 
     a unit of local government, as defined in subsection (g)(2), 
     with a population that exceeds 500,000.'';
       (2) in subsection (c)(5)--
       (A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``large'' before 
     ``unit''; and
       (B) by inserting ``large'' before ``unit of local 
     government'' each place it appears;
       (3) in subsection (e)--
       (A) by inserting ``direct'' before ``payment''; and
       (B) by inserting ``large'' before ``unit of local 
     government'' each place it appears; and
       (4) in subsection (g)(2)--
       (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``Local'' and 
     inserting ``Unit of local''; and
       (B) by striking ``with a population that exceeds 500,000.''
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 
     601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a) 
     of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 
     (Public Law 116-136).
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