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A-2020-121 <br />4. Expenses of actions to facilitate compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures, such <br />as: <br />• Expenses for food delivery to residents, including, for example, senior citizens and other <br />vulnerable populations, to enable compliance with COVID-19 public health precautions. <br />• Expenses to facilitate distance learning, including technological improvements, in connection <br />with school closings to enable compliance with COVID-19 precautions. <br />• Expenses to improve telework capabilities for public employees to enable compliance with <br />COVID-19 public health precautions. <br />• Expenses of providing paid sick and paid family slid medical leave to public employees to <br />enable compliance with COVID-19 public health precautions. <br />• COVID-19-related expenses of maintaining state prisons and county jails, including as relates <br />to sanitation and improvement of social distancing treasures, to enable compliance with <br />COVID-19 public health precautions. <br />• Expenses for care for homeless populations provided to mitigate COVID-19 effects and <br />enable compliance with COVID-19 public health precautions. <br />S. Expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection with the COVID-19 <br />public health emergency, such as: <br />• Expenditures related to the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of <br />business interruption caused by required closures. <br />• Expenditures related to a State, territorial, local, or Tribal government payroll support <br />program, <br />• Unemployment insurance costs related to the COVID-19 public health emergency if such <br />costs will not be reimbursed by the federal government pursuant to the CARES Act or <br />otherwise. <br />6. Any other COVID-19-related expenses reasonably necessary to the function of government that <br />satisfy the Fund's eligibility criteria. <br />Nonexclusive examples of ineligible expenditures'The following is a list of examples of costs that would not be eligible expenditures of payments from the <br />Fund, <br />1. Expenses for the State share of Medicaid.' <br />2. Damages covered by insurance. <br />3. Payroll or benefits expenses for employees whose work duties are not substantially dedicated to <br />mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency. <br />In addition, pursuant to section 5001(b) of the CARES Act, payments from the Fund may not be expended for an <br />elective abortion or on research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of <br />injury or death. The prohibition on payment for abortions does not apply to an abortion if the pregnancy is the result <br />of an act of rape or incest; or in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or <br />physical illness, including a life -endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that <br />would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. <br />Furthermore, no government which receives payments from the Fund may discriminate against a health care entity <br />on the basis that the entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. <br />r See 42 C.F.R. § 433.51 and 45 C.F.R. § 75,306. <br />