S.Amdt. 2586

SA 2586. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PASS-THROUGH OF PORTION OF STATE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF
FUND TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

(a) Pass-Through Requirement.--Subsection (b) of section
601 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 801) is amended--

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(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Subject to paragraph
(2)'' and inserting ``Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)'';
and
(2) by adding at the end the following
``(3) Pass-through requirement.--Each State shall
distribute 45 percent of the amount paid to the State under
this section for fiscal year 2020 (after the application of
paragraph (2)) upon receipt on a pass-through basis, and
without requiring any application, to each unit of local
government in the State that is not a large unit of local
government that received a direct payment under this section
in accordance with paragraph (2). The preceding distribution
requirement shall not apply to the District of Columbia.''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 601 of such Act is
further amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting ``large''
before ``unit of local government'' each place it appears;
and
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``large'' before
``units''; and
(ii) by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of
this section, the term `large unit of local government' means
a unit of local government, as defined in subsection (g)(2),
with a population that exceeds 500,000.'';
(2) in subsection (c)(5)--
(A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``large'' before
``unit''; and
(B) by inserting ``large'' before ``unit of local
government'' each place it appears;
(3) in subsection (e)--
(A) by inserting ``direct'' before ``payment''; and
(B) by inserting ``large'' before ``unit of local
government'' each place it appears; and
(4) in subsection (g)(2)--
(A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``Local'' and
inserting ``Unit of local''; and
(B) by striking ``with a population that exceeds 500,000.''
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section
601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001(a)
of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
(Public Law 116-136).
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