Greetings and salutations friends and neighbors,
To the best of my abilities, I have extracted the following references to the District within The American Rescue Plan as voted by the House of Representatives. This bill was voted out of the Senate, with modifications and will be voted on again in the House of Representatives.
Best,
Robert
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner
President Emeritus, DC Federation of Civic Associations, Inc.
The American Rescue Plan
https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr1319/BILLS-117hr1319eh.pdf
Cobra - The term ‘‘State’’ includes the District of Columbia,
Strike Teams - FUNDING FOR STATE STRIKE TEAMS.—In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $250,000,000, to remain available until expended, for purposes of allocating such amount among the States (including the District of Columbia and each territory of the United States) for such a State to establish and implement a strike team that will be deployed to a nursing facility in the State with diagnosed or suspected cases of COVID–19 among residents or staff for the purposes of assisting with clinical care, infection control, or staffing during the emergency period described in section 135(g)(1)(B).’’
Rental and utility assistance - ‘‘$200,000,000’’ The term ‘‘eligible grantee’’ means any of the following:
(A) The 50 States of the United States and the District of Columbia.
Homeowner assistance fund - $9,961,000,000 – The term ‘‘State’’ means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
Small State Minimum ) SMALL STATE MINIMUM.— IN GENERAL.—Each State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall receive no less than $40,000,000 - The Secretary shall adjust on a pro rata basis the amount of the payments for each State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
PAYMENTS TO EACH OF THE 50 STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reserve $195,300,000,000 of the amount appropriated under subsection (a) to make payments to each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. ‘‘(B) ALLOCATIONS.—Of the amount reserved under subparagraph (A)— ‘‘(i) $25,500,000,000 of such amount shall be allocated by the Secretary equally among each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia; ‘‘(ii) an amount equal to $1,250,000,000 less the amount allocated for the District of Columbia pursuant to section 601(c)(6) shall allocated by the Secretary as an additional amount to the District of Columbia; and ‘‘(iii) an amount equal to the remainder of the amount reserved under subparagraph (A) after the application of clauses (i) and (ii) of this subparagraph shall be allocated by the Secretary as an additional amount to each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia in an amount which bears the same proportion to such remainder as the average estimated number of seasonally-adjusted unemployed individuals (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics program) in the State or District of Columbia over the 3-month period ending in December 2020 bears to the average estimated number of seasonally-adjusted unemployed individuals in all of the 50 States and the District of Columbia over the same period.
‘‘(C) PAYMENT.—The Secretary shall pay each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia the total of the amounts allocated for the State and District of Columbia under subparagraph (B).
‘‘(4) POPULATION DATA.—For purposes of determining allocations for a State or territory under this section, the population of the State or territory shall be determined based on the most recent data
available from the Bureau of the Census.
‘‘(5) TIMING.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph (B), to the extent practicable, with respect to each State, territory, and Tribal government allocated a payment under this subsection, the Secretary shall make the payment required for the State, territory, or Tribal government (as applicable) not later than 60 days after the date on which the certification required under subsection (d) is provided to the
Secretary. ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—With respect to the amount allocated to the District of Columbia under paragraph (3)(B)(ii)—‘‘(i) the Secretary shall pay such amount to the District of Columbia not later than 15 days after the date of enactment of this section; and ‘‘(ii) the District of Columbia shall not be required to submit a certification under subsection (d) as a condition for receiving such payment.
‘‘(B) SPECIAL RULES.—
‘‘(i) URBAN COUNTIES.— No county that is an ‘urban county’ (as defined in section 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) shall receive less than the amount the county would otherwise receive if the amount paid under this paragraph were allocated to metropolitan cities and urban counties under section 106(b) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(b)). ‘‘(ii) COUNTIES THAT ARE NOT UNITS OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT.— In the case of an amount to be paid to a county that is not a unit of general local government, the amount shall instead be paid to the State in which such county is located, and such State shall distribute such amount to units of general local government within such county in an amounts that bear the same proportion as the population of such units of general local government bear to the total population of such county.
‘‘(iii) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.—For purposes of this paragraph, the District of Columbia shall be considered to consist of a single county that is a unit of general local government.
11 (8) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN.—The term ‘‘small business concern’’ has the meaning given under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632). STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia,
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