HR 535 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 28, 2021 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJan 28, 2021
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act

This bill makes special districts eligible for the Coronavirus Relief Fund and the Municipal Liquidity Facility program.

Specifically, the bill makes special districts eligible for payments from amounts paid to states from any new appropriations to the fund. A special district must submit a request for payment to the state with information demonstrating that the special district has experienced or is likely to experience during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency

  • reduced revenue or operational funding derived from provided services, taxes, fees, or other sources of revenue;
  • reduced indirect funding from the federal government, the state, or a unit of general government below the state level; or
  • as a result of the COVID-19 emergency, increased expenditures necessary to continue operations.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall include special districts as eligible issuers in the Municipal Liquidity Facility program, which was created in response to the COVID-19 emergency to buy municipal securities.

Cosponsors 31

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 28, 2021 to Jun 11, 2021, with 21 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAlan S. LowenthalOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAAmi BeraOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAAnna G. EshooOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-FLCharlie CristOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-WADerek KilmerOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAGrace F. NapolitanoOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAJerry McNerneyOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAJim CostaOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAJimmy PanettaOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAJulia BrownleyOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-TXLloyd DoggettOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAMark DeSaulnierOriginalJan 28, 2021
D-CAMark TakanoOriginalJan 28, 2021

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 28, 2021Introduced in House
  2. Jan 28, 2021Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  3. Jan 28, 2021Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E75)

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 91Special Districts Provide Essential Services ActIdentical billJan 28, 2021

Subjects

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Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 28, 2021Introduced in House

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