CARES Act

Pub. L. 116–136

Also known as: COVID-19 Pandemic Education Relief Act of 2020, Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act of 2020, Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Emergency Appropriations for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency Operations

197 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 116-135, except 113 and Public Law 116-138, except 113.

• 2 U.S.C. § 901a — Enforcement of budget goal
• 2 U.S.C. § 2062 — House of Representatives Child Care Center
• 2 U.S.C. § 5548 — Payments to ensure continuing availability of goods and services during the coronavirus emergency
• 11 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions
• 11 U.S.C. § 103 — Applicability of chapters
• 11 U.S.C. § 347 — Unclaimed property
• 11 U.S.C. § 1182 — Definitions
• 11 U.S.C. § 1325 — Confirmation of plan
• 11 U.S.C. § 1329 — Modification of plan after confirmation
• 12 U.S.C. § 84 — Lending limits
• 12 U.S.C. § 1795a — Definitions
• 12 U.S.C. § 1795c — Membership
• 12 U.S.C. § 1795e — Extensions of credit
• 12 U.S.C. § 1795f — Powers of Board
• 12 U.S.C. § 5612 — Emergency financial stabilization
• 15 U.S.C. § 636 — Additional powers
• 15 U.S.C. § 1681s–2 — Responsibilities of furnishers of information to consumer reporting agencies
• 15 U.S.C. § 9001 — Definitions
• 15 U.S.C. § 9002 — Entrepreneurial development
• 15 U.S.C. § 9003 — State trade expansion program
• 15 U.S.C. § 9004 — Waiver of matching funds requirement under the Women’s Business Center program
• 15 U.S.C. § 9005 — Loan forgiveness
• 15 U.S.C. § 9006 — Direct appropriations
• 15 U.S.C. § 9007 — Minority Business Development Agency
• 15 U.S.C. § 9008 — United States Treasury program management authority
• 15 U.S.C. § 9009 — Emergency EIDL grants
• 15 U.S.C. § 9010 — Resources and services in languages other than English
• 15 U.S.C. § 9011 — Subsidy for certain loan payments
• 15 U.S.C. § 9012 — Emergency rulemaking authority
• 15 U.S.C. § 9021 — Pandemic unemployment assistance
• 15 U.S.C. § 9022 — Flexibility in paying reimbursement
• 15 U.S.C. § 9023 — Emergency increase in unemployment compensation benefits
• 15 U.S.C. § 9024 — Temporary full Federal funding of the first week of compensable regular unemployment for States with no waiting week
• 15 U.S.C. § 9025 — Pandemic emergency unemployment compensation
• 15 U.S.C. § 9026 — Temporary financing of short-time compensation payments in States with programs in law
• 15 U.S.C. § 9027 — Temporary financing of short-time compensation agreements
• 15 U.S.C. § 9028 — Grants for short-time compensation programs
• 15 U.S.C. § 9029 — Assistance and guidance in implementing programs
• 15 U.S.C. § 9030 — Waiver of the 7-day waiting period for benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act
• 15 U.S.C. § 9031 — Funding for the DOL Office of Inspector General for oversight of unemployment provisions
• 15 U.S.C. § 9032 — Implementation
• 15 U.S.C. § 9041 — Definitions
• 15 U.S.C. § 9042 — Emergency relief and taxpayer protections
• 15 U.S.C. § 9043 — Limitation on certain employee compensation
• 15 U.S.C. § 9044 — Continuation of certain air service
• 15 U.S.C. § 9045 — Coordination with Secretary of Transportation
• 15 U.S.C. § 9046 — Suspension of certain aviation excise taxes
• 15 U.S.C. § 9047 — Federal credit union transaction account guarantees
• 15 U.S.C. § 9048 — Temporary government in the Sunshine Act Relief
• 15 U.S.C. § 9049 — Temporary hiring flexibility
• 15 U.S.C. § 9050 — Temporary relief for community banks
• 15 U.S.C. § 9051 — Temporary relief from troubled debt restructurings
• 15 U.S.C. § 9052 — Optional temporary relief from current expected credit losses
• 15 U.S.C. § 9053 — Special Inspector General for pandemic recovery
• 15 U.S.C. § 9054 — Conflicts of interest
• 15 U.S.C. § 9055 — Congressional Oversight Commission
• 15 U.S.C. § 9056 — Foreclosure moratorium and consumer right to request forbearance
• 15 U.S.C. § 9057 — Forbearance of residential mortgage loan payments for multifamily properties with Federally backed loans
• 15 U.S.C. § 9058 — Temporary moratorium on eviction filings
• 15 U.S.C. § 9059 — Protection of collective bargaining agreement
• 15 U.S.C. § 9060 — Reports
• 15 U.S.C. § 9061 — Direct appropriation
• 15 U.S.C. § 9062 — Rule of construction
• 15 U.S.C. § 9063 — Termination of authority
• 15 U.S.C. § 9071 — Definitions
• 15 U.S.C. § 9072 — Pandemic relief for aviation workers
• 15 U.S.C. § 9073 — Procedures for providing payroll support
• 15 U.S.C. § 9074 — Required assurances
• 15 U.S.C. § 9075 — Protection of collective bargaining agreement
• 15 U.S.C. § 9076 — Limitation on certain employee compensation
• 15 U.S.C. § 9077 — Tax payer protection
• 15 U.S.C. § 9078 — Reports
• 15 U.S.C. § 9079 — Coordination
• 15 U.S.C. § 9080 — Direct appropriation
• 17 U.S.C. § 710 — Emergency relief authority
• 18 U.S.C. § 3014 — Additional special assessment
• 21 U.S.C. § 352 — Misbranded drugs and devices
• 21 U.S.C. § 355h — Regulation of certain nonprescription drugs that are marketed without an approved drug application
• 21 U.S.C. § 356c — Discontinuance or interruption in the production of life-saving drugs
• 21 U.S.C. § 356e — Drug shortage list
• 21 U.S.C. § 356j — Discontinuance or interruption in the production of medical devices
• 21 U.S.C. § 360 — Registration of producers of drugs or devices
• 21 U.S.C. § 360b–1 — Priority zoonotic animal drugs
• 21 U.S.C. § 360fff–3 — GRASE determination
• 21 U.S.C. § 360fff–8 — Sunset
• 21 U.S.C. § 374 — Inspection
• 21 U.S.C. § 379j–52 — Authority to assess and use biosimilar biological product fees
• 21 U.S.C. § 379j–71 — Definitions
• 21 U.S.C. § 379j–72 — Authority to assess and use OTC monograph fees
• 21 U.S.C. § 379j–73 — Reauthorization; reporting requirements
• 21 U.S.C. § 379r — National uniformity for nonprescription drugs
• 21 U.S.C. § 381 — Imports and exports
• 22 U.S.C. § 282p — Capital increases and amendment to the Articles of Agreement
• 22 U.S.C. § 284cc — Nineteenth replenishment
• 22 U.S.C. § 286e–2 — Loans to Fund
• 22 U.S.C. § 290g–25 — Fifteenth replenishment
• 22 U.S.C. § 290i–12 — Seventh capital increase
• 26 U.S.C. § 53 — Credit for prior year minimum tax liability
• 26 U.S.C. § 62 — Adjusted gross income defined
• 26 U.S.C. § 106 — Contributions by employer to accident and health plans
• 26 U.S.C. § 127 — Educational assistance programs
• 26 U.S.C. § 163 — Interest
• 26 U.S.C. § 168 — Accelerated cost recovery system
• 26 U.S.C. § 172 — Net operating loss deduction
• 26 U.S.C. § 220 — Archer MSAs
• 26 U.S.C. § 221 — Interest on education loans
• 26 U.S.C. § 223 — Health savings accounts
• 26 U.S.C. § 401 — Qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans
• 26 U.S.C. § 402 — Taxability of beneficiary of employees’ trust
• 26 U.S.C. § 414 — Definitions and special rules
• 26 U.S.C. § 461 — General rule for taxable year of deduction
• 26 U.S.C. § 860E — Treatment of income in excess of daily accruals on residual interests
• 26 U.S.C. § 3306 — Definitions
• 26 U.S.C. § 5214 — Withdrawal of distilled spirits from bonded premises free of tax or without payment of tax
• 26 U.S.C. § 6103 — Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information
• 26 U.S.C. § 6211 — Definition of a deficiency
• 26 U.S.C. § 6213 — Restrictions applicable to deficiencies; petition to Tax Court
• 26 U.S.C. § 6428 — 2020 Recovery rebates for individuals
• 29 U.S.C. § 1060 — Multiple employer plans and other special rules
• 29 U.S.C. § 1148 — Authority to postpone certain deadlines by reason of Presidentially declared disaster or terroristic or military actions
• 29 U.S.C. § 2620 — Public health emergency leave
• 31 U.S.C. § 1324 — Refund of internal revenue collections
• 31 U.S.C. § 5302 — Stabilizing exchange rates and arrangements
• 39 U.S.C. § 3210 — Franked mail transmitted by the Vice President, Members of Congress, and congressional officials
• 40 U.S.C. § 14321 — Grants and other assistance
• 42 U.S.C. § 204 — Commissioned Corps and Ready Reserve Corps
• 42 U.S.C. § 204a — Deployment readiness
• 42 U.S.C. § 205 — Appointment and tenure of office of Surgeon General; reversion in rank
• 42 U.S.C. § 206 — Assignment of officers
• 42 U.S.C. § 207 — Grades, ranks, and titles of commissioned corps
• 42 U.S.C. § 209 — Appointment of personnel
• 42 U.S.C. § 210 — Pay and allowances
• 42 U.S.C. § 210–1 — Annual and sick leave
• 42 U.S.C. § 211 — Promotion of commissioned officers
• 42 U.S.C. § 212 — Retirement of commissioned officers
• 42 U.S.C. § 213a — Rights, benefits, privileges, and immunities for commissioned officers or beneficiaries; exercise of authority by Secretary or designee
• 42 U.S.C. § 247d–6b — Strategic National Stockpile and security countermeasure procurements
• 42 U.S.C. § 247d–6d — Targeted liability protections for pandemic and epidemic products and security countermeasures
• 42 U.S.C. § 247d–7e — Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
• 42 U.S.C. § 254b — Health centers
• 42 U.S.C. § 254b–2 — Community health centers and the National Health Service Corps Fund
• 42 U.S.C. § 254c — Rural health care services outreach, rural health network development, and small health care provider quality improvement grant programs
• 42 U.S.C. § 254c–2 — Special diabetes programs for type I diabetes
• 42 U.S.C. § 254c–3 — Special diabetes programs for Indians
• 42 U.S.C. § 254c–8 — Healthy start for infants
• 42 U.S.C. § 254c–14 — Telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs
• 42 U.S.C. § 256h — Program of payments to teaching health centers that operate graduate medical education programs
• 42 U.S.C. § 290dd–2 — Confidentiality of records
• 42 U.S.C. § 293 — Centers of excellence
• 42 U.S.C. § 293d — Authorization of appropriation
• 42 U.S.C. § 293k — Primary care training and enhancement
• 42 U.S.C. § 293k–2 — Training in general, pediatric, and public health dentistry
• 42 U.S.C. § 293l — Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
• 42 U.S.C. § 294a — Area health education centers
• 42 U.S.C. § 294c — Education and training relating to geriatrics
• 42 U.S.C. § 294d — Quentin N. Burdick program for rural interdisciplinary training
• 42 U.S.C. § 294e — Allied health and other disciplines
• 42 U.S.C. § 294n — Health professions workforce information and analysis
• 42 U.S.C. § 294o — Advisory Council on Graduate Medical Education
• 42 U.S.C. § 295a — Public health training centers
• 42 U.S.C. § 295e — Authorization of appropriations
• 42 U.S.C. § 295f — Investment in tomorrow’s pediatric health care workforce
• 42 U.S.C. § 296 — Definitions
• 42 U.S.C. § 296a — Application
• 42 U.S.C. § 296b — Use of funds
• 42 U.S.C. § 296e — Generally applicable provisions
• 42 U.S.C. § 296j — Advanced education nursing grants
• 42 U.S.C. § 296p — Nurse education, practice, quality, and retention grants
• 42 U.S.C. § 297n — Loan repayment and scholarship programs
• 42 U.S.C. § 297n–1 — Nurse faculty loan program
• 42 U.S.C. § 297o — Eligible individual student loan repayment
• 42 U.S.C. § 297t — National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
• 42 U.S.C. § 298d — Authorization of appropriations
• 42 U.S.C. § 710 — Sexual risk avoidance education
• 42 U.S.C. § 713 — Personal responsibility education
• 42 U.S.C. § 801 — Coronavirus relief fund
• 42 U.S.C. § 1103 — Amounts transferred to State accounts
• 42 U.S.C. § 1320b–5 — Authority to waive requirements during national emergencies
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395f — Conditions of and limitations on payment for services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395g — Payments to providers of services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395l — Payment of benefits
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395m — Special payment rules for particular items and services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395m–1 — Improving policies for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395n — Procedure for payment of claims of providers of services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395w–4 — Payment for physicians’ services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395w–22 — Benefits and beneficiary protections
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395w–104 — Beneficiary protections for qualified prescription drug coverage
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395x — Definitions
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395rr — End stage renal disease program
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395ww — Payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395aaa — Contract with a consensus-based entity regarding performance measurement
• 42 U.S.C. § 1395fff — Prospective payment for home health services
• 42 U.S.C. § 1396a — State plans for medical assistance
• 42 U.S.C. § 1396d — Definitions
• 42 U.S.C. § 1396r–4 — Adjustment in payment for inpatient hospital services furnished by disproportionate share hospitals
• 45 U.S.C. § 352 — Benefits
• 33 U.S.C. § 2238b–1 — Budgetary treatment expansion and adjustment for the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund