State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
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.
Bill status
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Introduction
Oct 2021
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President
Introduced Oct 26, 2021
Last action Oct 26, 2021
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Oct 26, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
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Oct 26, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
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1 primary · 165 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
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Dusty Johnson
RRepublican
Co
Alan S. Lowenthal
DDemocratic
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Albio Sires
DDemocratic
Co
André Carson
DDemocratic
Co
Andy Barr
RRepublican
Co
Andy Kim
DDemocratic
Co
Angie Craig
DDemocratic
Co
Ann M. Kuster
DDemocratic
Co
Ann Wagner
RRepublican
Co
Anthony G. Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Antonio Delgado
DDemocratic
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