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Senate approves CARES Act assistance changes including expanded landlord-applied rental aid and new support for oil, gas and mining
Summary
Senate Bill 6009, passed Aug. 20, 2020, modifies multiple CARES Act-funded assistance programs: it lowers the rental-assistance attestation standard, allows landlords to apply with attestations preventing eviction, expands eligibility and caps for business and nonprofit grants, removes a cap on agricultural grants, and creates a $5 million grant for oil, gas and mining revenue losses.
Senator Hemmert presented Senate Bill 6009 as a package of technical and programmatic adjustments to CARES Act-funded assistance programs and related state spending. He told the Senate most elements were noncontroversial but that one component — landlord-tenant provisions tied to rental assistance — required careful explanation.
On the individual rental assistance program, Hemmert said the statutory threshold for applicants would be lowered from showing they "suffered financial harm" to an attestation that they were "negatively impacted," and landlords would be permitted to apply on tenants' behalf provided the landlord attested the tenant…
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