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Senate Bill 91
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in Senate on Jan 28, 2021
Overview
Text
Introduced
Jan 28, 2021
Latest Action
Jan 28, 2021
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
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Bill Number
91
Congress
117
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Government Operations and Politics
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Sponsorship by Party
Democrat
Kyrsten Sinema
Arizona
Democrat
Alex Padilla
California
Democrat
Dianne Feinstein
California
Republican
John Cornyn
Texas
Senate Votes (0)
House Votes (0)
No Senate votes have been held for this bill.
Summary

Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act

This bill makes special districts eligible for the Coronavirus Relief Fund and the Municipal Liquidity Facility program.

Specifically, the bill makes special districts eligible for payments from amounts paid to states from any new appropriations to the fund. A special district must submit a request for payment to the state with information demonstrating that the special district has experienced or is likely to experience during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency

  • reduced revenue or operational funding derived from provided services, taxes, fees, or other sources of revenue;
  • reduced indirect funding from the federal government, the state, or a unit of general government below the state level; or
  • as a result of the COVID-19 emergency, increased expenditures necessary to continue operations.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall include special districts as eligible issuers in the Municipal Liquidity Facility program, which was created in response to the COVID-19 emergency to buy municipal securities.

Text (1)
Introduced in Senate
January 28, 2021
Related Bills (1)
Jan 28, 2021
Introduced in House
32
Sponsorship
House Bill 535
Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act
Introduced
Type
Identical Bill
Identical Bill
A bill that is word-for-word identical to another bill. Bills are characterized as identical to each other at the introduced stage only, even though a later (e.g., reported or passed) version of a bill might meet the same criteria for text similarity. Companion measures, procedurally-related measures, and legislation with text similarities are other related bill types.
Identified By
CRS
Actions (2)
01/28/2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
01/28/2021
Introduced in Senate
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:47:28 PM
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