State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
Latest action · Dec 21, 2022 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.
- IntroducedDec 20, 2022
- Passed SenateDec 20, 2022
- 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 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Dec 20, 2022.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Alex Padilla | Original | Dec 20, 2022 |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Original | Dec 20, 2022 |
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | Original | Dec 20, 2022 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 21, 2022Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Dec 21, 2022Received in the House.
- Dec 21, 2022Held at the desk.
- Dec 20, 2022Introduced in Senate
- Dec 20, 2022Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7814-7816; text: CR S7814-7816)
In the Congressional Record 1
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 S7813, S7814Text printed S7814–S7816 | Alex Padilla D-CA, John Cornyn R-TX, Jon Tester D-MT | Dec 20, 2022 |
Titles 2
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 Passed Senate
- State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Appropriations
- Aviation and airports
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Department of the Treasury
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Economic performance and conditions
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Housing and community development funding
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Infrastructure development
- Intergovernmental relations
- Public transit
- Roads and highways
- Social Welfare
- State and local finance
- Transportation programs funding
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 20, 2022Considered and Passed Senate
- Dec 20, 2022Engrossed 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.
