Overview of Major Congressional Actions COVID-19 for State, Local & Higher Education March 11, 2021
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Overview of Major Congressional Actions COVID-19 for State, Local & Higher Education March 11, 2021
CONTENTS o COVID-19 Congressional Action Overview 3 o American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act 2021 4 o Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 33 o CARES Act 50 o Cares Act - Cities & Local Communities 72 Copyright © 2021 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 2
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION OVERVIEW
The Federal Government is enacting a series of bills to stabilize the economy and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Congress has passed six
bills to date: HR6074, HR6201, HR748, HR266, HR133, and HR1319
CV#1 – CV#2 – CV#3 – CV#3.5 – CV#4 – CV#5 –
Coronavirus Families First Coronavirus Aid, Paycheck Protection Consolidated American Rescue
Preparedness and Coronavirus Response Relief, and Program & Health Appropriations Act Plan (ARP Act)
Response Act Economic Care Enhancement
Supplemental Security Act Act
Appropriations (CARES Act)
Act HR1319
• HR6201 • HR748 • HR266 • HR133 •
HR6074
Enacted 3/11/2021
•
• Enacted 3/17/20 • Enacted 3/30/20 • Enacted 4/24/20 • Enacted 12/27/2020 •
Enacted 3/6/20
Provides approximately
•
• Guarantees free • Provides approximately • Provides $310 billion • Provides $900 billion •
$8.3 billion $2 trillion of financial for the Paycheck for additional COVID- $1.9 trillion of financial
•
coronavirus testing,
Emergency aid to federal agencies, Protection Program, 19 support to address aid to federal agencies,
establishes paid leave,
Appropriations nonprofit organizations, $75 billion for vaccinations, testing, individuals, businesses,
expands
for COVID-19 individuals, businesses, hospitals and $25 contact tracing, and state and local
Unemployment
Response and state and local billion for COVID-19 and Unemployment governments
Insurance, enhances
food security initiatives, governments testing Insurance
and increases federal
Medicaid funding
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American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act 2021
Major state fund provisions – ARP Act Department of Treasury
Major state fund provisions
Treasury Department
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$219.8 billion for States, territories, and Tribal governments to mitigate the fiscal State, fiscal,
effects with respect to the public health emergency. $25.5 billion would be equally revenue, Covid-19
divided to provide each state a minimum of $500 million. $169 billion would be response, essential
allocated based on the states’ share of unemployed workers over a three-month employees,
period, from October-December 2020. infrastructure,
State-by-State Funding Allocations industries
Funds to be distributed within 60 days from certification. The Secretary can withhold
up to half of a state or territory’s allocation for as long as 12 months based on its
unemployment rate and require an updated certification of its funding needs.
Use of funds:
Coronavirus State Fiscal
• Respond to the COVID-19 emergency and address its economic effects, including
Recovery Fund $219.8 billion December 31, 2024
through aid to households, small businesses, nonprofits, and industries such as
tourism and hospitality
• Provide premium pay to essential employees or grants to their employers.
Premium pay cannot exceed $13 per hour or $25,000 per worker
• Provide government services affected by a revenue reduction as a result of
COVID-19 in the most recent full fiscal year of the State, territory, or Tribal
government prior to the emergency
• Make investments in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure.
• Cannot use the funds towards pensions or to offset revenue resulting from a tax
cut enacted since March 3, 2021
• Allowed to transfer funds to private nonprofit groups, public benefit corporations
involved in passenger or cargo transportation, and special-purpose units of state
or local governments
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Treasury Department
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$130.2 billion for metropolitan cities, nonentitlement units of local government, and Counties, cities,
counties to mitigate the fiscal effects with respect to the public health emergency. nonentitlement
Local Funding Allocations units of local
government,
Funds would be distributed in two tranches, with 50 percent delivered no later than fiscal, revenue,
60 days from the date of enactment, and the remainder delivered no earlier than one COVID-19
year later. Metropolitan Cities and Counties: Treasury shall directly allocate the response,
funds. Nonentitlement units of local government: States must allocate withing 30 essential
days or request an additional 30-day extension. A nonentitlement unit cannot employees,
receive more than 75 percent of its budget as of January 27, 2020. infrastructure,
Coronavirus Local Fiscal industries
Recovery Fund $130.2 billion Use of funds: December 31, 2024
• Respond to the COVID-19 emergency and address its economic effects, including
through aid to households, small businesses, nonprofits, and industries such as
tourism and hospitality
• Provide premium pay to essential employees or grants to their employers.
Premium pay cannot exceed $13 per hour or $25,000 per worker
• Provide government services affected by a revenue reduction resulting from
COVID-19
• Make investments in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure
• Cannot use the funds towards pensions or to offset revenue resulting from a tax
cut enacted since March 3, 2021
• Allowed to transfer funds to the state
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Treasury Department
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$10 billion for a Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund to carry out projects to support Work, education, FY21
work, education and health monitoring during COVID-19. Each state will receive health, rural,
$100 million. The remaining amount to states will be based on: poverty Secretary
Coronavirus Capital • 50 percent by population shall establish a
$10 billion
Fund • 25 percent by the number of individuals living in rural areas in each State grant process within
• 25 percent by the number of individuals with a household income that is below 60 days of
150 percent of the poverty line enactment
State Allocations for Capital Projects
Local Assistance and $2 billion for payments to revenue sharing counties and eligible Tribal governments, Tribal governments,
$2 billion territories September 30, 2023
Tribal Consistency Fund including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
$21.5 billion for emergency rental assistance, including $2.5 billion for payments to Rental assistance,
Funds must
“high-need” grantees - the number of very low-income renter households paying high-need
be reallocated to
Emergency Rental more than 50 percent of income on rent or living in substandard conditions. 40
$21.5 billion other states if not
Assistance percent of each such eligible grantee’s total will be allocated within 60 days of
utilized by October
enactment. Up to 10 percent can be used for case management and up to 15
1, 2022
percent can be used for administrative costs.
$9.9 billion establishes a Homeowner Assistance Fund for states to prevent Homeowners,
homeowner mortgage delinquencies, defaults, foreclosures, loss of utilities, home mortgage, internet, September 30, 2025
energy services, internet, homeowner's insurance and displacements of homeowners utilities, insurance
experiencing financial hardship after January 21, 2020. 60 percent shall be used to States must request
Homeowner Assistance
$9.9 billion assist homeowners having incomes equal to or less than 100 percent of the area funds from Treasury
Fund
median income for their household size or equal to or less than 100 percent of the within 45 days or
median income. State allocations will be based on unemployment and they will be
total mortgagors 30 days past due and foreclosures. Minimum state allocations: $50 reallocated
million.
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Treasury Department
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Provides funds for state programs that support small businesses responding to and Small business,
recovering from the economic effects of the pandemic, ensure businesses credit and
State Small Business enterprises owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged investments,
$10 billion September 30, 2030
Credit Initiative individuals have access to credit and investments, provide technical assistance to technical assistance
help small businesses applying for various support programs. Awards will be based
on a state’s proportion of unemployed persons as a percentage of the national total.
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Healthcare provisions
Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$47.8 billion to HHS to carry out activities to detect, diagnose, trace, and monitor Grants, cooperative
COVID-19 infections and related strategies to mitigate spread. Funding can be used agreements,
for a variety of purposes, including to award grants or cooperative agreements to contact tracing,
COVID-19 Testing, State, local, and territorial public health departments for detection, tracing, and testing, mitigate,
Contact Tracing, and $47.8 billion monitoring activities or for establishing, expanding, and sustaining a public health PPE
Mitigation workforce; to implement a national strategy for testing, contact tracing, surveillance,
and mitigation; to support the development, manufacture, procurement, distribution,
and administration of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies; and
to invest in laboratory capacity.
$1.8 billion to CDC to be used to: Genome
• Conduct, expand, and improve activities to sequence genomes, identify mutations, sequencing, virus
and survey transmission identification
Genomic Sequencing • Award grants or cooperative agreements to State, local, Tribal, or territorial public
and Surveillance – health departments or laboratories to increase capacity to sequence genomes,
$1.8 billion
Centers for Disease identify mutations in viruses, use sequencing to identify outbreaks and clusters of
Control and Prevention infections, and develop effective response strategies
• Enhance and expand informatics capabilities of the public health workforce
• Award grants for the construction and renovation of facilities to improve
sequencing and surveillance capabilities at the state and local level
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$7.5 billion to CDC to conduct activities to enhance, expand, and improve nationwide Vaccines, vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration. Funds can also be used to provide management,
technical assistance, guidance, and support to, and award grants or cooperative vaccine distribution,
agreements to, State, local, Tribal, and territorial public health departments for health equity, IT,
enhancement of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration capabilities, technology
including: modernization
• The distribution and administration of vaccines
• The establishment and expansion of community vaccination centers, particularly in
underserved areas
COVID-19 Vaccine • The deployment of mobile vaccination units
Activities – Centers for • Information Technology, standards-based data, and reporting enhancements,
$7.5 billion
Disease Control and including improvements necessary to support standards-based sharing of data
Prevention related to vaccine distribution and vaccinations and systems that enhance vaccine
safety, effectiveness, and uptake
• Facilities enhancements
• Public communication regarding vaccines
• Transportation of individuals to facilitate vaccinations
Also provides a supplemental funding opportunity for state, locality, and territory
vaccine distribution grants from the December 2020 COVID-19 relief package
(Consolidated Appropriations Act) based on entities receiving the higher of two
distribution formulas (see Sec. 2301, ARP).
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$7.6 billion to HHS to award grants and cooperative agreements to Community Vaccine
Health Centers (CHCs) be used to: management,
• Plan, prepare for, promote, distribute, administer, and track COVID-19 vaccines, contact tracing,
and to carry out other vaccine-related activities community
• Detect, diagnose, trace, and monitor COVID-19 infections and related activities outreach,
necessary to mitigate the spread of the virus healthcare
• Purchase equipment and supplies to conduct mobile testing or vaccinations, to workforce, PPE
Community Health
hire personnel or other staff
Centers and Community $7.6 billion
• Establish, expand, and sustain the health care workforce to prevent, prepare for,
Care
and respond to COVID-19, and to carry out other activities
• Modify, enhance, and expand health care services and infrastructure
• Conduct community outreach and education activities related to COVID-19
Past expenditures: awardees may use amounts awarded to cover costs of awardee
carrying out any of the qualifying activities during the period January 31, 2020 to the
time of the award.
$6.1 billion for Tribal health programs, including: Tribal health,
• $1.5 billion to detect, diagnose, trace, and monitor infections, and other activities vaccine
necessary to mitigate spread management, IT,
Tribal Health $6.1 billion • $140 million for information technology, telehealth infrastructure, and the Indian telehealth,
Health Service electronic health records system infrastructure,
• $600 million to plan, prepare for, promote, distribute, administer, and track health records
COVID-19 vaccines
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$7.7 billion to HHS to carry out activities related to establishing, expanding, and Public health
sustaining a public health workforce, including by making awards to State, local, and workforce, contact
territorial public health departments. tracing, community
health, PPE, data
Use of funds for public health departments: management,
• Costs related to recruiting, hiring, and training case investigators, contact tracers, administrative costs
social support specialists, community health workers, public health nurses, disease
Public Health Workforce $7.7 billion
intervention specialists, epidemiologists, program managers, lab personnel,
informaticians, communication and policy experts, and other resources employed
by State, territorial, or local public health departments or nonprofit private or
public organizations with expertise in implementing public health programs
• PPE, data management and other technology, or other necessary supplies
• Administrative costs and activities necessary for awardees to implement activities
• Subawards from recipients to local health departments
Department of Agriculture
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Establishes an emergency pilot program within 150 days to provide emergency Rural health,
Emergency Grants for grants for rural health care to increase vaccine distribution capacity, provide medical vaccine
$500 million September 30, 2023
Rural Health Care supplies, reimburse for COVID-19 related expenses and lost revenue, increase distribution,
telehealth capabilities, among other uses. telehealth
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Human services provisions
Department of Agriculture
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Supplemental Nutrition Extends a 15 percent increase to monthly benefits under SNAP through September SNAP
N/A September 30, 2021
Assistance Program 30; currently scheduled to lapse on June 30.
Provides funding for state SNAP agency administrative costs to process increased SNAP,
Supplemental Nutrition
$1.2 billion SNAP applications and implement COVID-19 emergency measures. Majority of the administration September 30, 2023
Assistance Program
funding is for grants to each state agency for FY21 – 23. costs
Expands the Pandemic EBT program through any school year during a designated P-EBT, nutrition
public health emergency and the following summer period. The program, which assistance
Pandemic-EBT N/A provides food aid to families during school closures, had initially been limited to FY20
and FY21 and to school year 2020-2021, and now includes select American
territories.
Increases the amount of the cash-value voucher provided under the WIC program up WIC, vouchers
Women, Infants and
$490 million to $35 during the pandemic. Participating states can apply the increase for as long as September 30, 2021
Children
four months after opting in.
Increases participation in WIC through outreach and program modernization. WIC, program
Women, Infants and
$390 million Temporarily expands the age of eligibility to 25 for the Child and Adult Care Food modernization September 30, 2024
Children
Program (CACFP) at emergency homeless shelters.
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
CCDBG, block Available through
$15 billion for the Child Care Development Block Grant Program
grants, child care, September 30, 2021
essential workers
Use of funds:
Payments made to
Child Care Development • States, territories, Indian Tribes, and Tribal organizations are authorized to use
$15 billion states, territories,
Block Grant Program such funds to provide child care assistance to health care sector employees,
tribes shall be
emergency responders, sanitation workers, and other workers deemed essential
obligated in FY21 or
during the response to coronavirus by public officials, without regard to the
the succeeding 2
income eligibility requirements of the program
fiscal years
$24 billion for child care stabilization grants to be awarded to states’ lead agencies. CCDBG, block
Lead agencies are directed to make subgrants to qualified child care providers grants, child care
regardless of such providers’ previous receipt of federal assistance.
Use of funds:
• Qualified child care providers that receive funds through subgrants must use the
funds for at least one of: personnel costs, including payroll, benefits,
recruitment/retention costs; rent or mortgage obligations, utilities, facility costs, Available through
Child Care Stabilization $24 billion
and insurance; PPE; other goods to resume or maintain child care services; or September 30, 2021
mental health supports for children and employees
Restrictions:
• Lead agencies shall reserve not more than 10 percent of grant funds to administer
subgrants, provide technical assistance and support for applying for and accessing
the subgrant opportunity, publicize the subgrants, and provide technical
assistance to child care providers to implement necessary policies
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Permanently increases the total funding for the Child Care Entitlement to States from Child care,
$2.9 billion to $3.05 billion (increase of $130 million). appropriation
Child Care Entitlement $130 million
Waives state matching funds for 2021 and 2022.
$1 billion to be allocated to Head Start agencies for one-time grants; each agency Head start, grants,
shall be allocated an amount based on the proportion of enrolled children served by children Available through
Head Start $1 billion
the Head Start agency as compared to the total number of enrolled children served September 30, 2022
by all Head Start agencies.
$250 million for HHS for community-based grants for the prevention of child abuse Children, protective
and neglect. services,
community-based
Child Abuse Prevention • Of the total, each state shall be allotted an amount proportional to the number of grants Available through
$350 million
and Treatment children under the age of 18 to the total number of children under the age of 18 September 30, 2023
in all States
$100 million for grants to states for improving child protective services systems.
$150 million to the Health Resources & Services Administration for grants to serve MIECHV,
families with home/virtual visits; to pay hazard pay or other staff costs; to train home technology, family
Maternal, Infant, and
visitors; to provide technology to support virtual home visits; to provide emergency support Available through
Early Childhood Home $150 million
supplies; to provide reimbursement for supplies; and to provide prepaid grocery September 30, 2022
Visiting Program
cards to eligible families participating in the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood
Home Visiting Program.
$1 billion for the Pandemic Emergency Fund for Temporary Assistance for Needy Pandemic, benefits,
States must expend
Pandemic Emergency Families, which provides allotments to states for one-time benefits such as cash and administrative
$1 billion funds within 12
Fund vouchers to eligible families with low incomes. States may not expend more than 15 costs,
months after receipt
percent of the funds allotted for administrative purposes.
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Block grant Amounts awarded
Community Mental
to states shall be
Health Services Block $1.5 billion $1.5 billion to HHS in FY21 for Community Mental Health Services Block Grants.
expended by
Grant
September 30, 2025
SAMHSA, Amounts awarded
Prevention and
$1.5 billion to SAMHSA in FY21 for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse substance abuse to states shall be
Treatment of Substance $1.5 billion
Block Grants. expended by
Abuse Block Grant
September 30, 2025
Certified Community $420 million to SAMHSA in FY21 for grants to Certified Community Behavioral Health SAMHSA, health
$420 million
Behavioral Health Clinics Clinics. clinics
$450 million to the Administration for Children & Families for programs under the ACF
Family Violence
$450 million Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, including $198 million for grants to
Prevention and Services
support survivors of sexual assault.
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$1.4 billion to the Administration for Community Living for Older Americans Act Elderly, nutrition,
programs, including: family assistance,
• $750 million to support nutrition programs for older Americans prevention
• $25 million for services for Native American communities
Older Americans Act • $460 million to support home and community-based support services programs,
$1.4 billion
Programs including support for COVID-19 vaccination outreach and coordination and
addressing social isolation
• $44 million for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention
• $145 million for the National Family Caregiver Support Program $10 million for
the long-term care ombudsman program
$4.5 billion to the Office of Community Services for the Low-Income Home Energy LIHEAP, energy
Low-Income Home Assistance Program (LIHEAP). assistance
Available through
Energy Assistance $4.5 billion
September 30, 2022
Program 50 percent of the funds allocated according to the FY21 formula, and the remaining
50 percent allocated according to a new formula.
Family planning
Title X Family Planning $50 million $50 million in FY21 for the Title X Family Planning program. FY@!
Technology Funds not
$20 million in FY21 to HHS to award grants to each American Health Benefits modernization, distributed in FY21
Exchange established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Award funds may be state health to remain available
Exchange Modernization $20 million
used to modernize or update any system, program, or technology utilized by such exchanges until September 30,
Exchange to ensure such Exchange is compliance with all applicable requirements. 2022 to carry out
this section
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Requires state Medicaid to cover vaccines and COVID-19 treatment without any cost Medicaid, vaccines, One year after the
Medicaid N/A sharing and extends the period of this policy for one year after the end of the Public public health end of the Public
Health Emergency. Health Emergency
States that extended a Medicaid option to provide testing and treatment to Medicaid, testing,
Medicaid N/A
uninsured people must also do so without cost-sharing. treatment
Provides a five-year state plan option of health coverage for women enrolled in Medicaid, women,
Medicaid N/A
Medicaid for 12 months after the birth of a child, instead of the previous 60 days. postpartum
Eliminates the cap on the rebate amount manufacturers are required to pay Medicaid Drug rebate, cap, Begins 2024
on covered drugs, starting in 2024. Currently, the cap is limited to 100 percent of the Medicaid
Medicaid N/A
average manufacture price. Once this cap is reached prescription drug manufacturers
can raise their prices without increasing the net rebates that have to be paid.
Requires CHIP to cover vaccines and COVID-19 treatment without any cost sharing CHIP, vaccines, One year after the
Children’s Health public health
N/A and extends the period of this policy for one year after the end of the Public Health end of the Public
Insurance Program
emergency. Health Emergency
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Department of Health & Human Services
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Increases federal FMAP to 100 percent for vaccine costs through one year after the Vaccine, public One year after end
Federal Medical
N/A end of the Public Health emergency. health, FMAP, of Public Health
Assistance Percentage
Medicaid Emergency
Federal Provides a temporary (two-year) 5 percentage point increase in the Medicaid FMAP ACA, FMAP,
Medical Assistance N/A to states that enact the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion and covers expansion, Two-years
Percentage the newly eligible adult population per requirements of the ACA. Medicaid
Provides an 85 percent FMAP for the first three years that a state covers mobile crisis Mobile crisis
Federal
intervention services for mental health or substance use disorders, expiring after five intervention, Expiring after five
Medical Assistance N/A
years. mental health, years
Percentage
substance abuse
Federal Provides 100 percent FMAP for services to Medicaid enrollees, who access care in the FMAP, tribal,
Medical Assistance N/A Urban Indian Health Programs or the Native Hawaiian Health Care System for two health, 2 years
Percentage years.
Increases the federal FMAP by 10 percentage points for state expenditures on home FMAP, home and
Federal Medical
N/A and community-based services (HCBS) for four fiscal quarters. community-based 4 fiscal quarters
Assistance Percentage
services
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Department of Housing & Urban Development
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
For emergency Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. HUD would have to provide the Housing vouchers,
vouchers through public housing agencies to individuals and families who are currently or homelessness
Emergency Housing
$5 billion recently homeless, and to those who are fleeing domestic violence, sexual assault, or September 20, 2030
Vouchers
human trafficking. Public housing agencies couldn’t reissue the vouchers after September
30, 2023.
Homelessness Homelessness
Allocated to state and local governments to provide supportive services for homeless and
Assistance and
$5 billion other at-risk individuals. Permitted expenditures would include acquiring non-congregate September 30, 2025
Supportive Services
shelter units, such as motel rooms, that could be converted into permanent housing.
Program
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Labor provisions
Department of Labor
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Pandemic Unemployment, UI,
Extends Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) to 79 weeks until September 6,
Unemployment $300 per week PUA September 6, 2021
2021.
Assistance
Emergency Unemployment, UI
Extends through September 6, 2021 a provision in the CARES Act to provide federal
Unemployment Relief
N/A support to cover 75 percent of the costs of unemployment benefits for employees of September 6, 2021
for Gov’t Entities and
state and local governments and non-profit organizations.
Nonprofits (ext.)
Unemployment, UI,
Federal Pandemic
Extends the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement to FPUC
Unemployment $300 per week September 6, 2021
all state and federal unemployment benefits at $300 per week to September 6, 2021.
Compensation
Fed. Funding of the First Unemployment, UI
Extends through September 6, 2021 the CARES Act provision which reimbursed
Week of Compensable
states for the cost of waiving the “waiting week” for regular unemployment
Regular Unemployment N/A September 6, 2021
compensation. States may receive full reimbursement for weeks of unemployment
for States with No
that ended after December 31, 2020.
Waiting Week (ext.)
Emergency State Provides states with temporary, limited flexibility to hire temporary staff, re-hire Workforce, surge
N/A September 6, 2021
Staffing Flexibility former staff, or take other steps to quickly process unemployment claims. capacity
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Department of Labor
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Pandemic Emergency Extends Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) to September Unemployment, UI,
Unemployment $300 per week 6, 2021; increases the number of weeks of benefits an individual may claim through PEUC September 6, 2021
Compensation the PEUC program from 24 to 53.
Short-Time Short-time
Extends through September 6, 2021 the CARES Act provision which provided
Compensation Payments compensation
N/A temporary 100 percent federal financing for Short-Time Compensation (“work- September 6, 2021
for States Without
sharing”) programs which are established in state law.
Programs in Law
Short-Time Short-time
Compensation Extends through September 6, 2021 the CARES Act provision which provided a 50 compensation
Agreements for States N/A percent subsidy to non-statutory, temporary state Short-Time Compensation September 6, 2021
Without Programs in programs.
Law
Extension Of Temporary Unemployment
Extends the emergency administration grants to the accounts of the States in the
Assistance For States N/A Trust Fund, state September 6, 2021
Unemployment Trust Fund.
With Advances advances
Full Federal Funding of Extends through September 6, 2021 the provision in the Families First Coronavirus Unemployment, UI
Extended Response Act which provided temporary full federal financing of Extended Benefits
N/A September 6, 2021
Unemployment (EB) for high-unemployment states. States are normally required to pay 50 percent
Compensation of the cost of EB, which is a program in permanent law.
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Department of Labor
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$2 billion to detect and prevent fraud, promote equitable access, and ensure the UI, unemployment,
timely payment of benefits with respect to unemployment compensation programs: fraud, claims
processing,
Uses include: program integrity,
Funding For Fraud • Federal administrative costs timely payment
Prevention, Equitable • Systemwide infrastructure investment and development
Access, And Timely $2 billion • Grants to States or territories administering unemployment compensation
Payment To Eligible programs for establishment of procedures or the building of infrastructure to
Workers verify or validate identity, implementing Federal guidance regarding fraud
detection and prevention, and accelerating claims processing or process claims
backlogs due to the pandemic. The Secretary may require specific use such
program integrity tools and conduct user accessibility testing on any new system
developed by the Secretary
In the case of any taxable year beginning in 2020, if the adjusted gross income of the Tax, unemployment
Suspension Of Tax On
taxpayer for such taxable year is less than $150,000, the gross income of such compensation
Portion Of
N/A taxpayer shall not include so much of the unemployment compensation received by Tax Year 2022
Unemployment
such taxpayer (or, in the case of a joint return, received by each spouse) as does not
Compensation
exceed $10,200.
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Other provisions
Federal Communications Commission
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Creates a fund to reimburse eligible schools and libraries for, among other things, Broadband,
E-Rate / Emergency
$7.2 billion eligible connected devices, internet service, and Wi-Fi hotspots to students and internet service September 30, 2030
Connectivity Fund
teachers for internet use at home.
Department of Commerce
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Provides funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19 and expenses Tourism, grants,
Economic Development related to economic injury. 25 percent of this amount is set aside for states and economic recovery,
$3 billion September 30, 2022
Administration communities that suffered economic injury due to job losses in travel, tourism, and economic
outdoor recreation sectors. development
Department of Education
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Colleges,
Regulations would
Makes changes to the federal 90/10 rule, which prohibits for-profit colleges from universities,
For-profit Colleges N/A not take effect until
receiving more than 90 percent of their revenue from federal aid programs. proprietary
January 2023
institutions
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Department of Education
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$36 billion is allocated to public and private non-profit institutions to remain Colleges,
available through September 30, 2023. Institutions must spend at least 50 percent of universities,
their allocation on emergency financial aid grants provided directly to students. institutions of
Institutions can use remaining funds to replace lost revenue, reimburse for higher education,
emergency expenses, implement public health measures, and support financial aid grants, Pell, student
applicants. Funds are allocated as follows: aid
• 37.5 percent based on full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment of Federal Pell Grant
recipients
Higher Education
$40 billion • 37.5 percent based on headcount enrollment of Pell recipients September 30, 2023
Emergency Relief Fund
• 11.5 percent based on FTE enrollment of non-Pell recipients
• 11.5 percent based on headcount enrollment of non-Pell recipients
• 1 percent based on the relative share of FTE enrollment of students who were
Federal Pell Grant recipients and who were exclusively enrolled in distance
education courses prior to the qualifying emergency
• 1 percent based on the relative share of the total number of students who were
Federal Pell grant recipients and who were exclusively enrolled in distance
education courses prior to the qualifying emergency
Supports the identification, enrollment, and school participation of children and Student aid,
Homeless students $800 million youth experiencing homelessness, including through wrap-around services. Grants welfare, grants
shall be made to each State educational agency.
Loan forgiveness From December 31,
Student loans N/A Treats any student loan forgiven or discharged on a tax-free basis. 2020 to January 1,
2026
Colleges,
Non-Higher Education
Provides funds for institutions with the greatest unmet need related to the pandemic universities,
Emergency Relief Fund $200 million
or those not served by the HEER formula. proprietary
Institutions
institution
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Department of Homeland Security
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Medical response,
$50 billion for COVID-19 and other disaster assistance to states and localities. PPE, emergency
Provides for 100 percent federal cost share assistance to state and local and disaster
FEMA / Disaster Relief
$50 billion governments. Uses include personal protective equipment, vaccine distribution, declarations, September 30, 2025
Fund
sanitization of schools, public transit, and courthouses, health care overtime costs, emergency
and other needs. assistance, Stafford
Act, logistics
Operational
readiness, planning,
prevent, prepare,
FEMA / Emergency respond,
Provided to state and local emergency management agencies to help communities
Management $100 million development of September 30, 2025
address COVID-19 and facilitate vaccine rollout.
Performance Grants tools and
strategies, crisis
communications,
communications
$400 million made available for FEMA’s Food and Shelter Program, primarily Housing, nutrition
FEMA / Emergency Food
$510 million supporting non-profit organizations and local government, with $110 million assistance, September 30, 2025
and Shelter Program
reserved for related humanitarian relief. humanitarian relief
Emergency
FEMA / Assistance to
$100 million shall be for assistance to firefighter grants and $200 million shall be for response,
Firefighters Grants $300 million September 30, 2025
staffing for adequate fire and emergency response grants. emergency
Program
personnel, training
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Department of Homeland Security
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
Stafford Act,
emergency
FEMA / Disaster-Related Provides disaster-related funeral expenses to individuals and households at 100
N/A assistance, disaster September 30, 2025
Funeral Expenses percent federal cost share.
response, funeral
expenses
Department of Transportation
Program Amount Description Keywords Time Constraints
$30. 5 billion in grants to transit agencies for operating expenses including payroll PPE, payroll, transit,
costs and purchasing personal protective equipment. rural
The funding includes:
• $26.1 billion for Urbanized Area Formula Grants to urbanized areas based on data
Federal Transit contained in the National Transit Database
$30.5 billion
Administration • $2.2 billion for urban area and rural area grantees that need additional assistance
because of the pandemic
• $1.7 billion for Capital Investment Grants
• $317.2 million for rural areas formula grants
• $100 million for bus operators
• $50 million for enhanced mobility of seniors and individuals with disabilities
Airport sponsors, or public agencies and private owners of public-use airports will
receive funding, which will be available through the end of FY24. Airports that were
allocated in excess of 4 years of operating funds to prevent, prepare for, and
Airports $8 billion September 30, 2024
respond to the pandemic in FY20, are not eligible for the funding. Airports that
receive funding will be required to retain at least 90 percent of personnel employed
as of March 27, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
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Major state fund provisions - CAA 2021 Department of Treasury
Major state fund provisions
Treasury Department
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Extends the deadline to December 31, 2021 for incurring already State and local
Coronavirus Relief December 31,
N/A appropriated CRF funds. No additional flexibility or funding is provided in funding, CRF
Fund (CRF) 2021
the bill for CRF.
Appropriates Emergency Rental Assistance through Treasury to provide to Rental assistance,
state and local government entities, including $400 million for U.S. homelessness
territories and $800 million for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and
Native Hawaiians (with the District of Columbia treated as a state). Funds
Signed
would be required to be allocated to state and local governments
acceptance of
(“grantees”) within 30 days of enactment. Eligible households are defined
award terms must
as renter households who: (1) have a household income not more than 80
be submitted on
percent of AMI; (2) have one or more household members who can
Emergency Rental January 12, 2021.
$25 billion demonstrate a risk of experiencing homelessness or housing instability;
Assistance
and (3) have one or more household members who qualify for
Bill funding runs
unemployment benefits or experienced financial hardship due, directly or
through
indirectly, to the pandemic. Assistance would be prioritized for renter
December 31,
households whose incomes do not exceed 50 percent of AMI as well as
2021
renter households who are currently unemployed and have been
unemployed for 90 or more days. Financial assistance provided under this
section is non-taxable for households receiving such assistance. Link to
Guidance; FAQs (updated 2/21/21); state and local allocations.
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Major state fund provisions
Department of Health & Human Services
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
$8.75 billion to plan, prepare for, promote, distribute, administer, monitor, and Vaccines,
track coronavirus vaccines to ensure broad-based distribution, access, and vaccine
vaccine coverage. Of this amount, $4.5 billion goes directly to states, localities, distribution,
Centers for Disease
and territories; $210 million is transferred to the Indian Health Service; and state vaccine September 30,
Control and $8.75 billion
$300 million is for high-risk and underserved populations (bill page assistance, 2024
Prevention (CDC)
1832) . Initial awards to state are coming thru CDC Immunization and Vaccines underserved
for Children cooperative agreement. Link to HHS Release and state
allocations.
Mental Health Services Block Grant: $1.65 billion, of which, no less than 50 Mental health,
percent of funds shall be directed to behavioral health providers. substance abuse
Substance Abuse and
Substance Abuse and Prevention Treatment Block Grant: $1.65 billion.
Mental Health
Project AWARE: $50 million to support mental health once children return to
Services $4.25 billion
school.
Administration –
Emergency Grants to States: $240 million for flexible emergency grants.
Grants and Programs
$125 million shall be provided to Native American tribes.
Link to state allocations.
Includes $22.4 billion for testing, contact tracing, and surveillance. $2.5 billion Contact-tracing,
Public Health and is for high risk and underserved populations and $790 million is transferred to contact tracing,
September 30,
Social Services $25.4 billion the Indian Health Service. (Bill page 1836). Initial awards to states are coming testing,
2024
Emergency Fund thru CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) cooperative underserved
agreement Link to HHS Release and allocations.
$3 billion in additional grants for hospital and health care providers to be Hospital, health
care providers Applies to
Public Health and reimbursed for health care related expenses or lost revenue directly
losses incurred
Social Services attributable to the public health emergency resulting from coronavirus, along
$3 billion in Q3 and Q4 of
Emergency Fund with direction to allocate not less than 85 percent of unobligated funds in the
CY2020 and Q1
Provider Relief Fund through an application-based portal to reimburse health
CY2021
care providers for financial losses incurred in 2020.
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Department of Health & Human Services
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Extension of eviction Extension of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264), entitled ‘‘Temporary Housing, January 31,
N/A
moratorium Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent the Further Spread of COVID–19’’. eviction 2021
New program that will help low-income families cover the costs of their
drinking water and wastewater utility bills. This program will provide grants to
Low-Income water Utilities, water,
$638 million states and tribes, who in turn will provide funds to owners or operators of
utility bill assistance wastewater
public water systems or treatment works to reduce arrearages and rates to
low-income households. 3% of the funds will be set aside for tribes.
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Major state fund provisions
Department of Labor
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Federal Pandemic Restores the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) Unemployment,
Unemployment supplement to all state and federal unemployment benefits at $300 per UI, FPUC
N/A March 14, 2021
Compensation week, starting after December 26 and ending March 14, 2021. Link to
(FPUC) ext. Guidance; additional guidance.
Creates MEUC, a program that allows states the option to participate or Unemployment,
Mixed Earner not. MEUC provides an additional $100 per week in supplemental benefits UI, MEUC
Unemployment to individuals receiving certain unemployment insurance benefits who
N/A March 14, 2021
Compensation received at least $5,000 of self-employment income in the most recent
(MEUC) taxable year ending prior to the individual’s application for regular
unemployment compensation. additional guidance.
Extends Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) to March 14, 2021 and Unemployment,
Pandemic
allows individuals receiving benefits as of March 14, 2021 to continue UI, PUA
Unemployment N/A March 14, 2021
through April 5, 2021, if the individual has not reached the maximum
Assistance (PUA)
number of weeks. Link to Guidance;
Extends through March 14, 2021 a provision in the CARES Act which Unemployment,
Emergency
amended the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to provide federal UI
Unemployment Relief
N/A support to cover 50% of the costs of unemployment benefits for 50% March 14, 2021
for Gov’t Entities and
employees of state and local governments and non-profit
Nonprofits (ext.)
organizations. Link to Guidance;
Fed. Funding of the Unemployment,
First Week of UI
Extends through March 14, 2021 the CARES Act provision which
Compensable
reimbursed states for the cost of waiving the “waiting week” for regular
Regular N/A 50% March 14, 2021
unemployment compensation. Sets the reimbursement percentage for
Unemployment for
weeks ending after December 26, 2020 at 50 percent. Link to Guidance;
States with No
Waiting Week (ext.)
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Department of Labor
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Extends Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) to Unemployment,
March 14, 2021 and allows individuals receiving benefits as of March 14, UI, PEUC
Pandemic Emergency
2021 to continue through April 5, 2021, if the individual has not reached
Unemployment
N/A the maximum number of weeks; increases the number of weeks of March 14, 2021
Compensation
benefits an individual may claim through the PEUC program from 13 to 24;
(PEUC) ext.
provides rules for states about sequencing these benefits with other
unemployment benefits. Link to Guidance;
Short-Time Short-time
Extends through March 14, 2021 the CARES Act provision which provided
Compensation compensation
temporary 100 percent federal financing for Short-Time Compensation
Payments for States N/A March 14, 2021
(“work-sharing”) programs which are established in state law. Link
Without Programs in
to Guidance;
Law (ext.)
Short-Time Short-time
Compensation compensation
Extends through March 14, 2021 the CARES Act provision which provided
Agreements for
N/A a 50 percent subsidy to non-statutory, temporary state Short-Time 50% March 14, 2021
States Without
Compensation programs. Link to Guidance;
Programs in Law
(ext.)
Extends through March 14, 2021 the provision in the Families First Unemployment,
Full Federal Funding
Coronavirus Response Act which provided temporary full federal financing UI
of Extended
N/A of Extended Benefits (EB) for high-unemployment states. States are March 14, 2021
Unemployment
normally required to pay 50 percent of the cost of EB, which is a program
Compensation (ext.)
in permanent law. Link to Guidance;
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Department of Labor
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Requirement for Requirements,
States to Verify Requires states to have procedures in place to verify or validate the program
Identity of Applicants identity of PUA applicants, and for timely payment of benefits; clarifies integrity, fraud,
N/A
for Pandemic that expenses to implement such procedures qualify as an administrative waste, abuse
Unemployment cost and may be reimbursed as part of PUA operation.
Assistance
Effective 30 days after enactment, requires states to have methods in place Requirements,
to address situations when claimants of unemployment compensation return to work,
refuse to return to work or refuse to accept an offer of suitable work unemployment
without good cause including:
Return to Work • A reporting method for employers to notify the state when an
Effective 30 days
Reporting for CARES N/A individual refuses employment.
after enactment
Act Agreements • A plain language notice to claimants about state return to work laws,
rights to refuse to return to work or to refuse suitable work and
information on contesting a denial of a claim, as well as what
constitutes suitable work, including a claimant’s right to refuse work
that poses a risk to the claimant’s health and safety.
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Major state fund provisions
Department of Agriculture
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Supplemental Temporarily increases SNAP’s monthly benefits using 115% of June 2020 SNAP Beginning
Nutrition Assistance N/A value of the Thrifty Food Plan and requires report on redemption rates January 1, 2020
Program (SNAP) during benefits increase period. to June 30, 2021
Provides $100 million in FY21 for state SNAP agency administrative costs SNAP,
to process increased SNAP applications and implement COVID emergency administration
measures. 75% of the amounts available for fY21 shall be allocated to costs
Supplemental States based on the share of each State of households that participate in
Nutrition Assistance $100 million SNAP for the most recent 12-25 month period for which data are FY21
Program (SNAP) available. 25% the amounts available FY21 shall be allocated to
States based on the increase in the number of households that participate
in SNAP over the most recent 12-month period for which data are
available.
Food & Nutrition Provides $614 million for nutrition assistance grants to Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico,
$614 million
Service American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. nutrition grants
The Emergency Food Food assistance
September 30,
Assistance Program $400 million Provides additional $400 million for TEFAP.
2021
(TEFAP)
Supplemental Partially (55%) reimburses school food authorities and covered daycare SNAP
Nutrition Assistance N/A centers for costs incurred during sudden COVID-19 emergency school
Program (SNAP) closures in Spring 2020.
Supplemental SNAP, work
Temporarily suspends work requirements for SNAP-eligible college
Nutrition Assistance requirements
N/A students while work-study programs may not be operating during COVID
Program (SNAP)
emergency.
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Department of Health and Human Services
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Child Care and Development Block Grants: $10 billion for child care, Grants, child-
Administration for
including direct support for child care providers for fixed costs and care, childcare September 30,
Children and Families $10 billion
operating expenses, to help ensure working parents have access to child 2024
(ACF)
care so they can work or return to work. Link to guidance.
Administration for Grants, child-
Head Start: $250 million to help Head Start programs address additional September 30,
Children and Families $250 million care, childcare
costs related to COVID-19. 2024
(ACF)
Administration for Provides $100 million for elder justice and adult protective services
$100 million
Community Living programs.
Community Services Waives caps on increases in funding for small states with respect to Block grants
N/A
Block Grants Community Services Block Grant funds appropriated in the CARES Act.
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Major state fund provisions
Department of Education
State Match Time
Program Amount Description Keywords
Requirement Constraints
Additional dedicated funds for HBCUs, tribal colleges, and other minority- HBCUs, financial
The deadline for
serving institutions: provides grants directly to institutions of higher aid
submission of the
education to help defray expenses related to COVID-19, provide additional
Higher Education signed
$1.7 billion financial aid to students, and provide additional services to students for
Emergency Certification and
authorized activities. $113.5 million for institutions with the greatest unmet
Relief Fund Agreement is
needs or those not served by the primary formula, such as independent
February 8, 2021.
graduate schools. Link to State Allocations.
Public and private nonprofit colleges: provides grants directly to College, higher
Higher Education institutions of higher education to help defray expenses related to COVID- education
$20 billion
Emergency Relief 19, provide additional financial aid to students, and provide additional
Fund services to students for authorized activities.
Provides flexible funding to Governors to be used for early childhood Governors,
Governors'
education, elementary and secondary education, or higher education, higher education
Emergency Education $4.05 billion
based on the needs of the state, of which $2.5 billion is for Emergency
Relief Fund
Assistance to Non-Public Schools.
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