42 U.S.C. § 804 — Coronavirus capital projects fund
submitted 91 years ago by Pub. L. 117-2 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 507 words · no verdicts yet
This section appropriates $10 billion for fiscal year 2021 for critical capital projects that directly enable work, education, or health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. It sets minimum payments, a population-based formula for the remaining money, and the application deadline.
(a) Appropriation. The Treasury must provide $10 billion for fiscal year 2021, in addition to other available money. The money remains available until it is spent. It is for payments to States, territories, and Tribal governments for critical capital projects that directly enable work, education, and health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
(b) Payments. (1) Minimum amounts. From this money—(A) the Secretary must pay $100 million to each State; (B) the Secretary must pay $100 million in equal shares to the United States* Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau; and (C) the Secretary must pay $100 million in equal shares to Tribal governments and Hawaii, in addition to Hawaii’s payment under subparagraph (A). At least $50,000 must go to each Tribal government. Hawaii must receive at least $50,000 and no more than $200,000 for the exclusive use of its Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Native Hawaiian Education Programs to assist Native Hawaiians under this section.
(2) Remaining amounts. After those minimum payments, the Secretary must pay the remaining money to States as follows: 50 percent according to each State’s share of the population of all States; 25 percent according to each State’s share of people living in rural areas in all States; and 25 percent according to each State’s share of people whose household income is below 150 percent of the poverty line for a family of the relevant size. The Treasury Secretary must use the most recent available Census Bureau data.
(c) Timing. Within 60 days after March 11, 2021, the Secretary must establish a grant-application process for accessing the funding under subsection (b).
(d) Definitions. (1) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Treasury. (2) “State” means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. (3) “Tribal government” has the meaning given in section 802(g) of this title; this section does not define that term.
In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $10,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, for making payments to States, territories, and Tribal governments to carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work, education, and health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19).
From the amount appropriated under subsection (a)—
the Secretary shall pay $100,000,000 to each State;
the Secretary shall pay $100,000,000 of such amount in equal shares to the United States* Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; and
the Secretary shall pay $100,000,000 of such amount in equal shares to Tribal governments and the State of Hawaii (in addition to the amount paid to the State of Hawaii under subparagraph (A)), of which—
not less than $50,000 shall be paid to each Tribal government; and
not less than $50,000, and not more than $200,000, shall be paid to the State of Hawaii for the exclusive use of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Native Hawaiian Education Programs to assist Native Hawaiians in accordance with this section.
From the amount of the appropriation under subsection (a) that remains after the application of paragraph (1), the Secretary shall make payments to States based on population such that—
50 percent of such amount shall be allocated among the States based on the proportion that the population of each State bears to the population of all States;
25 percent of such amount shall be allocated among the States based on the proportion that the number of individuals living in rural areas in each State bears to the number of individuals living in rural areas in all States; and
25 percent of such amount shall be allocated among the States based on the proportion that the number of individuals with a household income that is below 150 percent of the poverty line applicable to a family of the size involved in each State bears to the number of such individuals in all States.
In determining the allocations to be made to each State under subparagraph (A), the Secretary of the Treasury shall use the most recent data available from the Bureau of the Census.
The Secretary shall establish a process of applying for grants to access funding made available under section (b) not later than 60 days after March 11, 2021.
In this section:
The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Treasury.
The term “State” means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
The term “Tribal government” has the meaning given such term in section 802(g) of this title.
Source credit: (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VI, § 604, as added Pub. L. 117–2, title IX, § 9901(a), Mar. 11, 2021, 135 Stat. 233.)
- 1935Enacted · Pub. L. 117-2 · 135 Stat. 233
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