Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Empowering Nonprofits Act”.
Empowering Nonprofits Act
A BILL
To require executive agencies to reduce cost-sharing requirements for certain grants with certain nonprofit organizations, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Removal and reduction of cost-sharing requirements for grants
Removal of cost-Sharing requirement during the COVID–19 emergency period— Any cost-sharing requirement for an eligible nonprofit organization for grants made directly to that organization by an executive agency shall be waived during a COVID–19 emergency period.
Reduction of cost-Sharing requirement— Beginning on the expiration of the COVID–19 emergency period and ending 5 years thereafter, the head of an executive agency shall reduce any cost-sharing requirement 25 percent for an eligible nonprofit organization for grants made directly to that organization.
Definitions— In this section:
COVID–19 emergency period— The term “COVID–19 emergency period” means a period that—
begins on the date of a determination by the Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) that a public health emergency exists as a result of COVID–19; and
ends on the date on which such determination (including any renewal thereof) terminates.
Eligible nonprofit organization— The term eligible nonprofit organization means a nonprofit organization that is located in a State with more than 20 percent of individuals living below the Federal poverty line.
Executive agency— The term executive agency has the meaning given in section 133 of title 41, United States Code.
Nonprofit organization— The term nonprofit organization means an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1968 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
State— The term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, each commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, and each federally recognized Tribe.