State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
Latest action · Oct 20, 2021 Held at the desk.
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.
- IntroducedOct 19, 2021
- Passed SenateOct 19, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
This bill allows states, tribes, territories, and localities to use certain COVID-19 relief funds for new categories of spending, including for natural disasters and infrastructure projects. It also makes changes to expenditure deadlines and other aspects of this funding.
Specifically, recipients may use funds for emergency relief from natural disasters and associated negative economic impacts of natural disasters. In addition, recipients may use a portion of their COVID-19 relief funds for designated infrastructure projects, such as nationally significant freight and highway projects. Furthermore, the bill allows recipients to expend COVID-19 relief funds on these types of infrastructure projects until September 30, 2026. Under current law, recipients must expend the funds by December 31, 2024.
Other changes in the bill include (1) modifying eligibility and allocation requirements for funding set aside for counties and Indian tribes that are near public lands, (2) allowing Indian tribes an additional year to expend their COVID-19 relief funds, and (3) establishing a process for government entities to decline COVID-19 relief funds and requiring any declined funds to be used to reduce the federal deficit.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 19, 2021 to Nov 17, 2021; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Alex Padilla | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| D-NH | Jeanne Shaheen | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| R-LA | John Kennedy | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| D-AZ | Mark Kelly | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Oct 19, 2021 |
| R-AK | Dan Sullivan | Oct 20, 2021 | |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Oct 25, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Nov 4, 2021 | |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Nov 17, 2021 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2021Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Oct 20, 2021Received in the House.
- Oct 20, 2021Held at the desk.
- Oct 19, 2021Introduced in Senate
- Oct 19, 2021Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7079-7082; text: CR S7079-7082)
In the Congressional Record 6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S5041 | John Cornyn R-TX | Sep 27, 2022 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4632 | John Cornyn R-TX | Sep 15, 2022 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2119 | John Cornyn R-TX | Apr 25, 2022 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S9009 | John Cornyn R-TX | Dec 8, 2021 |
| House | Debate and remarks H5820, H5821 | Steny H. Hoyer D-MD, Steve Scalise R-LA | Oct 22, 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.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 117-627 | PUTTING THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW TO WORK: THE STATE AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES75 pages | Environment and Public Works Committee | Sep 21, 2022 |
| Serial No. 117-54 | CREATING A MORE RESILIENT NATION: STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVES48 pages | Homeland Security Committee | May 17, 2022 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5735 | State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act | Identical bill | Oct 26, 2021 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend title VI of the Social Security Act to allow States and local governments to use coronavirus relief funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act for infrastructure projects, improve the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund, provide Tribal governments with more time to use Coronavirus Relief Fund payments, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed Senate
- State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Air quality
- Appropriations
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Caribbean area
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Economic performance and conditions
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Endangered and threatened species
- Federal-Indian relations
- Fishes
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Health programs administration and funding
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Housing and community development funding
- Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Infrastructure development
- Land use and conservation
- Minority health
- Motor vehicles
- Natural disasters
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Public transit
- Puerto Rico
- Regional and metropolitan planning
- Roads and highways
- Rural conditions and development
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation programs funding
- Transportation safety and security
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Wages and earnings
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 19, 2021Considered and Passed Senate
- Oct 19, 2021Engrossed in Senate
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.
