[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4673 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4673

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue 
 guidance to agencies requiring special districts to be recognized as 
   local government for the purpose of Federal financial assistance 
                            determinations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 11 (legislative day, July 10), 2024

Ms. Sinema (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue 
 guidance to agencies requiring special districts to be recognized as 
   local government for the purpose of Federal financial assistance 
                            determinations.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Special District Grant Accessibility 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE GUIDANCE ON SPECIAL DISTRICTS.

    (a) Requirements for Agency Acknowledgment of Special Districts as 
Grant Recipients.--
            (1) OMB guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall issue guidance 
        that clarifies how an agency recognizes a special district as a 
        unit of local government for the purpose of being eligible to 
        receive Federal financial assistance.
            (2) Agency requirements.--Not later than 1 year after the 
        date on which the guidance is issued pursuant to paragraph (1), 
        the head of each agency shall implement the requirements of 
        such guidance and conform any policy, principle, practice, 
        procedure, or guideline relating to the administration of the 
        Federal financial assistance programs of the agency.
            (3) Reporting requirement.--Not later than 2 years after 
        the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall 
        submit to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the 
        House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 
        and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report that evaluates 
        agency implementation of and conformity to the guidance issued 
        pursuant to paragraph (1).
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 552 of title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
        the Office of Management and Budget.
            (3) Federal financial assistance.--The term ``Federal 
        financial assistance''--
                    (A) means assistance that a non-Federal entity 
                receives or administers in the form of a grant, loan, 
                loan guarantee, property, cooperative agreement, 
                interest subsidy, insurance, food commodity, direct 
                appropriation, or other assistance; and
                    (B) does not include an amount received as 
                reimbursement for services rendered to an individual in 
                accordance with guidance issued by the Director.
            (4) Special district.--The term ``special district'' means 
        a political subdivision of a State, with specified boundaries 
        and significant budgetary autonomy or control, created by or 
        pursuant to the laws of the State, for the purpose of 
        performing limited and specific governmental or proprietary 
        functions that distinguish it as a significantly separate 
        entity from the administrative governance structure of any 
        other form of local government unit within a State.
            (5) 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 Indian Tribe.
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