This bill prohibits a state, territorial, tribal, or local government from obligating any COVID-19 relief funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 until such government obligates all its relief funds made available by the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act).
To amend the Social Security Act to prohibit State and local 
 governments from obligating any coronavirus relief funds provided by 
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 until all coronavirus relief funds 
 made available by the CARES Act are obligated, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIRING COMPLETE OBLIGATION OF CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS 
              MADE AVAILABLE TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS UNDER CARES 
              ACT.

    Title VI of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) is 
amended by adding after section 603 the following:

``SEC. 604. PROHIBITION ON ADDITIONAL FUNDS WITHOUT COMPLETE 
              OBLIGATION.

    ``No funds under sections 602 or 603 may be used to make payments 
or distributions to any State, territorial, or Tribal government, or a 
unit of local government that has not obligated 100 percent of their 
previously allocated CRF funds under section 601.''.
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To amend the Social Security Act to prohibit State and local governments from obligating any coronavirus relief funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 until all coronavirus relief funds made available by the CARES Act are obligated, and for other purposes.
To amend the Social Security Act to prohibit State and local governments from obligating any coronavirus relief funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 until all coronavirus relief funds made available by the CARES Act are obligated, and for other purposes.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To amend the Social Security Act to prohibit State and local governments from obligating any coronavirus relief funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 until all coronavirus relief funds made available by the CARES Act are obligated, and for other purposes.
Rep. Mace, Nancy