2021 Special Session I

Budget Amendments - HB1800 (Conference Report)

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Federal Assistance Funds for COVID-19 (language only)

Item 479.10 #3c

Item 479.10 #3c

Central Appropriations
Central Appropriations


Page 572, line 23, after "(P.L. 116-136)" strike the remainder of the line.
Page 572, strike line 24.
Page 572, line 25, strike "health emergency".
Page 579, after line 7, insert:
"I.1. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Assistance for COVID-19 Trust Fund, referred to in this paragraph as "the Fund." The Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. All funds appropriated to the Fund and any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds received on its behalf shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Any direct federal aid, approved by the U.S. Congress since January 1, 2021, that is provided to assist the Commonwealth with the revenue and economic impacts resulting from COVID-19 shall be deposited to the Fund. Moneys in the Fund shall be used for the purposes of responding to the revenue and economic impacts to the Commonwealth related to the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Expenditures and disbursements from the Fund shall be made by the State Treasurer on warrants issued by the Comptroller upon written request signed by the Governor pursuant to appropriations provided in a general appropriation act.
2. No expenditure of funds from the ACT Fund shall be made unless specifically appropriated in a general appropriation act pursuant to Article X, Section 7, Constitution of Virginia."


(This amendment sets up a fund for receiving additional federal relief funds related to COVID-19 and provides that those funds would be expended in a general appropriation act.)