Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act
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.
- IntroducedJan 28, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- 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; 21 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Ami Bera | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-FL | Charlie Crist | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Mark DeSaulnier | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-FL | Val Butler Demings | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Feb 2, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Feb 2, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Feb 3, 2021 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Feb 4, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Mike Levin | Feb 18, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Feb 18, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Feb 24, 2021 | |
| D-WA | Kim Schrier | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Mar 12, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Jun 11, 2021 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2021 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2021 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 28, 2021Introduced in House
- Jan 28, 2021Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E75)
- 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.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E245 | John Garamendi D-CA | Mar 12, 2021 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E75 | John Garamendi D-CA | Jan 28, 2021 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 17, January 28, 2021, page H251.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 91 | Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act | Identical bill | Jan 28, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Social Security Act to include special districts in the coronavirus relief fund, to direct the Secretary to include special districts as an eligible issuer under the Municipal Liquidity Facility, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Appropriations
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Federal Reserve System
- Government information and archives
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government studies and investigations
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Securities
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 28, 2021Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
