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2	2	118THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION S. 75
5	5	To ensure equal treatment for religious organizations in the Federal provision
6	6	of social services programs, grantmaking, and contracting, and for other
7	7	purposes.
8	8	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
9	9	JANUARY25, 2023
10	10	Mr. R
11	11	UBIO(for himself, Mr. HAWLEY, Mr. SCOTTof Florida, and Mr.
12	12	L
13	13	ANKFORD) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re-
14	14	ferred to the Committee on Finance
15	15	A BILL
16	16	To ensure equal treatment for religious organizations in the
17	17	Federal provision of social services programs,
18	18	grantmaking, and contracting, and for other purposes.
19	19	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
20	20	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
21	21	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
22	22	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lifting Local Commu-4
23	23	nities Act’’. 5
24	24	SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 6
25	25	The purposes of this Act are the following: 7
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29	29	(1) To enable assistance to be provided to indi-1
30	30	viduals and families in need in the most effective 2
31	31	manner. 3
32	32	(2) To prohibit discrimination against religious 4
33	33	organizations in receipt and administration of Fed-5
34	34	eral financial assistance, including the provision of 6
35	35	that assistance through federally funded social serv-7
36	36	ice programs. 8
37	37	(3) To ensure that religious organizations can 9
38	38	apply and compete for Federal financial assistance 10
39	39	on a level playing field with nonreligious organiza-11
40	40	tions. 12
41	41	(4) To provide certainty for religious organiza-13
42	42	tions that receipt of Federal financial assistance will 14
43	43	not obstruct or hinder their ability to organize and 15
44	44	operate in accordance with their sincerely held reli-16
45	45	gious beliefs. 17
46	46	(5) To strengthen the social service capacity of 18
47	47	the United States by facilitating the entry of new, 19
48	48	and the expansion of existing, efforts by religious or-20
49	49	ganizations in the administration and provision of 21
50	50	Federal financial assistance. 22
51	51	(6) To protect the religious freedom of, and 23
52	52	better serve, individuals and families in need, includ-24
53	53	ing by expanding their ability to choose to receive 25
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57	57	federally funded social services from religious organi-1
58	58	zations. 2
59	59	SEC. 3. PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR GOVERNMENT PRO-3
60	60	GRAMS BY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 4
61	61	Title XXIV of the Revised Statutes is amended by 5
62	62	inserting after section 1990 (42 U.S.C. 1994) the fol-6
63	63	lowing: 7
64	64	‘‘SEC. 1990A. ENSURING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR RELI-8
65	65	GIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN FEDERAL PROVI-9
66	66	SION OF SOCIAL SERVICES, GRANTMAKING, 10
67	67	AND CONTRACTING. 11
68	68	‘‘(a) I
69	69	NGENERAL.—For any social services program 12
70	70	carried out by the Federal Government, or by a State, 13
71	71	local government, or pass-through entity with Federal 14
72	72	funds, the entity that awards Federal financial assistance 15
73	73	shall consider religious organizations, on the same basis 16
74	74	as any other private organization, to provide services for 17
75	75	the program. 18
76	76	‘‘(b) E
77	77	QUALTREATMENT FORRELIGIOUSORGANIZA-19
78	78	TIONS INFEDERALFINANCIALASSISTANCE.— 20
79	79	‘‘(1) I
80	80	N GENERAL.—A religious organization 21
81	81	shall be eligible to apply for and to receive Federal 22
82	82	financial assistance to provide services for a social 23
83	83	services program on the same basis as a private non-24
84	84	religious organization. 25
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88	88	‘‘(2) SELECTION.—In the selection of recipients 1
89	89	for Federal financial assistance for a social services 2
90	90	program neither the Federal Government nor a 3
91	91	State, local government, or pass-through entity re-4
92	92	ceiving funds for such program may discriminate for 5
93	93	or against a private organization on the basis of reli-6
94	94	gion, including the organization’s religious character, 7
95	95	affiliation, or exercise. 8
96	96	‘‘(3) P
97	97	ROHIBITION AGAINST IMPROPER BURDEN 9
98	98	ON RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS .— 10
99	99	‘‘(A) I
100	100	N GENERAL.—Except in the case of 11
101	101	another applicable provision of law that requires 12
102	102	or provides for a religious exemption or accom-13
103	103	modation that is equally or more protective of 14
104	104	a religious organization’s religious exercise, the 15
105	105	provisions of subparagraphs (B) through (E) 16
106	106	shall apply for any social services program ad-17
107	107	ministered by the Federal Government or by a 18
108	108	State, local government, or pass-through entity. 19
109	109	‘‘(B) E
110	110	QUAL TREATMENT ON ASSURANCES 20
111	111	AND NOTICES.—No document, agreement, cov-21
112	112	enant, memorandum of understanding, policy, 22
113	113	or regulation, relating to Federal financial as-23
114	114	sistance shall require religious organizations to 24
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118	118	provide assurances or notices that are not re-1
119	119	quired of private nonreligious organizations. 2
120	120	‘‘(C) E
121	121	QUAL APPLICATION OF RESTRIC -3
122	122	TIONS.—Any restrictions on the use of funds 4
123	123	received as Federal financial assistance shall 5
124	124	apply equally to religious and private nonreli-6
125	125	gious organizations. 7
126	126	‘‘(D) P
127	127	ROGRAM REQUIREMENTS .—All or-8
128	128	ganizations that receive Federal financial assist-9
129	129	ance for a social services program, including re-10
130	130	ligious organizations, shall carry out eligible ac-11
131	131	tivities in accordance with all program require-12
132	132	ments, and other applicable requirements gov-13
133	133	erning the conduct of activities funded by the 14
134	134	entity that awards Federal financial assistance. 15
135	135	‘‘(E) N
136	136	O DISQUALIFICATION BASED ON RE -16
137	137	LIGION.—No document, agreement, covenant, 17
138	138	memorandum of understanding, policy, or regu-18
139	139	lation, relating to Federal financial assistance 19
140	140	shall— 20
141	141	‘‘(i) disqualify religious organizations 21
142	142	from applying for or receiving Federal fi-22
143	143	nancial assistance for a social services pro-23
144	144	gram on the basis of the organization’s re-24
145	145	ligious character or affiliation, or grounds 25
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149	149	that discriminate against the organization 1
150	150	on the basis of the organization’s religious 2
151	151	exercise; or 3
152	152	‘‘(ii) prohibit the provision of religious 4
153	153	activities or services at the same time or 5
154	154	location as any program receiving such 6
155	155	Federal financial assistance. 7
156	156	‘‘(c) R
157	157	ELIGIOUSCHARACTER ANDFREEDOM.— 8
158	158	‘‘(1) F
159	159	REEDOM.—A religious organization that 9
160	160	applies for or receives Federal financial assistance 10
161	161	for a social services program shall retain its inde-11
162	162	pendence from Federal, State, and local govern-12
163	163	ments, including its autonomy, right of expression, 13
164	164	religious character or affiliation, authority over its 14
165	165	internal governance, and other aspects of independ-15
166	166	ence. 16
167	167	‘‘(2) R
168	168	ELIGIOUS CHARACTER .—A religious or-17
169	169	ganization that applies for or receives Federal finan-18
170	170	cial assistance for a social services program may, 19
171	171	among other things— 20
172	172	‘‘(A) retain religious terms in the organiza-21
173	173	tion’s name; 22
174	174	‘‘(B) continue to carry out the organiza-23
175	175	tion’s mission, including the definition, develop-24
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179	179	ment, practice, and expression of its religious 1
180	180	beliefs; 2
181	181	‘‘(C) use the organization’s facilities to 3
182	182	provide a program without concealing, remov-4
183	183	ing, or altering religious art, icons, scriptures, 5
184	184	or other symbols from the facilities; 6
185	185	‘‘(D) select, promote, or dismiss the mem-7
186	186	bers of the organization’s governing body and 8
187	187	the organization’s employees on the basis of 9
188	188	their acceptance of or adherence to the religious 10
189	189	tenets of the organization; and 11
190	190	‘‘(E) include religious references in the or-12
191	191	ganization’s mission statement and other char-13
192	192	tering or governing documents. 14
193	193	‘‘(d) R
194	194	IGHTS OFCOVEREDBENEFICIARIES OFSERV-15
195	195	ICES.— 16
196	196	‘‘(1) I
197	197	N GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-17
198	198	vided in any applicable provision of law that requires 18
199	199	or provides for a religious exemption or accommoda-19
200	200	tion that is equally or more protective of a religious 20
201	201	organization’s religious exercise, an organization 21
202	202	that receives Federal financial assistance under a so-22
203	203	cial services program shall not discriminate against 23
204	204	a covered beneficiary in the provision of a federally 24
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208	208	funded program on the basis of religion, a religious 1
209	209	belief, or a refusal to hold a religious belief. 2
210	210	‘‘(2) S
211	211	PECIAL RULE.—It shall not be considered 3
212	212	discrimination under paragraph (1) for a program 4
213	213	funded by Federal financial assistance to refuse to 5
214	214	modify any components of the program to accommo-6
215	215	date a covered beneficiary who participates in the or-7
216	216	ganization’s program. 8
217	217	‘‘(3) A
218	218	LTERNATIVE SERVICES .—If a covered 9
219	219	beneficiary has an objection to the character or af-10
220	220	filiation of the private organization from which the 11
221	221	beneficiary receives, or would receive, services as 12
222	222	part of the federally funded social services program, 13
223	223	the appropriate Federal, State, or local govern-14
224	224	mental entity shall provide to such beneficiary (if 15
225	225	otherwise eligible for such services) within a reason-16
226	226	able period of time after the date of such objection, 17
227	227	a referral for alternative services that— 18
228	228	‘‘(A) are reasonably accessible to the cov-19
229	229	ered beneficiary; and 20
230	230	‘‘(B) have a substantially similar value to 21
231	231	the services that the covered beneficiary would 22
232	232	initially have received from such organization. 23
233	233	‘‘(4) D
234	234	EFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 24
235	235	‘covered beneficiary’ means an individual who ap-25
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239	239	plies for or receives services under a social services 1
240	240	program. 2
241	241	‘‘(e) R
242	242	ELIGIOUSEXEMPTIONS.—A religious organiza-3
243	243	tion’s exemptions, in title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 4
244	244	1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) (including exemption from 5
245	245	prohibitions in employment discrimination in section 6
246	246	702(a) of that Act (42 U.S.C. 2000e–1(a))), title VIII of 7
247	247	the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), 8
248	248	title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 9
249	249	1681 et seq.), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 10
250	250	(42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), the Religious Freedom Res-11
251	251	toration Act (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.), the Religious 12
252	252	Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (42 13
253	253	U.S.C. 2000cc et seq.), or any other provision in law pro-14
254	254	viding an exemption for a religious organization, shall not 15
255	255	be waived because of the religious organization’s participa-16
256	256	tion in, or receipt of funds from, a social services program 17
257	257	funded with Federal financial assistance. 18
258	258	‘‘(f) L
259	259	IMITEDAUDIT.— 19
260	260	‘‘(1) I
261	261	N GENERAL.—A religious organization 20
262	262	providing services for a social services program using 21
263	263	Federal financial assistance may segregate Federal 22
264	264	funds and any required matching funds provided for 23
265	265	such program into a separate account or accounts. 24
266	266	Only the separate accounts consisting of Federal 25
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270	270	funds and any required matching funds shall be sub-1
271	271	ject to audit by the Federal Government with re-2
272	272	spect to an audit undertaken for the purposes of 3
273	273	oversight of Federal financial assistance. 4
274	274	‘‘(2) C
275	275	OMMINGLING OF FUNDS .—If a religious 5
276	276	organization providing services for a social services 6
277	277	program using Federal financial assistance contrib-7
278	278	utes the organization’s own funds in addition to 8
279	279	those funds required by a matching requirement or 9
280	280	agreement to supplement Federal funds, the organi-10
281	281	zation may segregate the organization’s own funds 11
282	282	that are not matching funds into separate accounts, 12
283	283	or commingle the organization’s own funds that are 13
284	284	not matching funds with the matching funds. If 14
285	285	those funds are commingled, the commingled funds 15
286	286	may all be subject to audit by the Federal Govern-16
287	287	ment. 17
288	288	‘‘(g) P
289	289	RIVATERIGHT OFACTION.—Any religious or-18
290	290	ganization that alleges a violation of its rights under this 19
291	291	section and seeks to enforce its rights under this section— 20
292	292	‘‘(1) may bring an action in a court of com-21
293	293	petent jurisdiction and assert that violation as a 22
294	294	claim, or assert that violation as a defense in a judi-23
295	295	cial action; and 24
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299	299	‘‘(2) may obtain appropriate relief, including at-1
300	300	torney’s fees, against an entity or agency that com-2
301	301	mitted such violation. 3
302	302	‘‘(h) F
303	303	EDERALPREEMPTION OFSTATE ANDLOCAL 4
304	304	L
305	305	AWS.—With respect to any Federal financial assistance 5
306	306	provided to a religious organization for the provision of 6
307	307	a social service program, or such assistance commingled 7
308	308	with State or local funds, no State or political subdivision 8
309	309	of a State may adopt, maintain, enforce, or continue in 9
310	310	effect any law, regulation, rule, or requirement covered by 10
311	311	the provisions of this section, or a rule, regulation, or re-11
312	312	quirement promulgated under this section. 12
313	313	‘‘(i) C
314	314	ONSTRUCTION.—The provisions of this section 13
315	315	shall supersede all Federal law (including statutory and 14
316	316	other law, and policies used in the implementation of that 15
317	317	law) that is enacted or issued before the date of enactment 16
318	318	of this section. No provision of law enacted after the date 17
319	319	of the enactment of this section may be construed as lim-18
320	320	iting, superseding, or otherwise affecting this section, ex-19
321	321	cept to the extent that it does so by specific reference to 20
322	322	this section. 21
323	323	‘‘(j) S
324	324	EVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section 22
325	325	or the application of such provision to any person or cir-23
326	326	cumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder 24
327	327	of this section and the application of the provisions of such 25
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331	331	to any person or circumstance shall not be affected there-1
332	332	by. 2
333	333	‘‘(k) D
334	334	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3
335	335	‘‘(1) D
336	336	ISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF AN OR -4
337	337	GANIZATION’S RELIGIOUS EXERCISE.— 5
338	338	‘‘(A) I
339	339	N GENERAL.—The term ‘discrimi-6
340	340	nate’, used with respect to an organization’s re-7
341	341	ligious exercise, means, on the basis of covered 8
342	342	conduct or motivation, to disfavor an organiza-9
343	343	tion in a selection process or in oversight, in-10
344	344	cluding— 11
345	345	‘‘(i) by failing to select an organiza-12
346	346	tion; 13
347	347	‘‘(ii) by disqualifying an organization; 14
348	348	or 15
349	349	‘‘(iii) by imposing any condition or se-16
350	350	lection criterion that penalizes or otherwise 17
351	351	disfavors an organization, or has the effect 18
352	352	of so penalizing or disfavoring an organiza-19
353	353	tion. 20
354	354	‘‘(B) C
355	355	OVERED CONDUCT OR MOTIVA -21
356	356	TION.—In this paragraph, the term ‘covered 22
357	357	conduct or motivation’ means— 23
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361	361	‘‘(i) conduct that would not be consid-1
362	362	ered grounds to disfavor a nonreligious or-2
363	363	ganization; 3
364	364	‘‘(ii) conduct for which an organiza-4
365	365	tion must or could be granted an exemp-5
366	366	tion or accommodation in a manner con-6
367	367	sistent with the Free Exercise Clause of 7
368	368	the First Amendment to the Constitution, 8
369	369	the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (42 9
370	370	U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.), or any other provi-10
371	371	sion referenced in subsection (e); or 11
372	372	‘‘(iii) the actual or suspected religious 12
373	373	motivation for the organization’s religious 13
374	374	exercise. 14
375	375	‘‘(2) O
376	376	THER DEFINITIONS.— 15
377	377	‘‘(A) F
378	378	EDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE .— 16
379	379	The term ‘Federal financial assistance’ means 17
380	380	financial assistance from the Federal Govern-18
381	381	ment that non-Federal entities receive or ad-19
382	382	minister through grants, contracts, loans, loan 20
383	383	guarantees, property, cooperative agreements, 21
384	384	food commodities, direct appropriations, or 22
385	385	other assistance, but does not include a tax 23
386	386	credit, tax deduction, or guaranty contract. 24
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390	390	‘‘(B) PASS-THROUGH ENTITY .—The term 1
391	391	‘pass-through entity’ means an entity, including 2
392	392	a nonprofit or nongovernmental organization, 3
393	393	acting under a grant, contract, or other agree-4
394	394	ment with the Federal Government or with a 5
395	395	State or local government, such as a State ad-6
396	396	ministering agency, that accepts direct Federal 7
397	397	financial assistance as a primary recipient (such 8
398	398	as a grant recipient) and distributes that assist-9
399	399	ance to other organizations that, in turn, pro-10
400	400	vide government-funded social services through 11
401	401	a social services program. 12
402	402	‘‘(C) P
403	403	ROGRAM.—The term ‘program’ in-13
404	404	cludes the services provided through that pro-14
405	405	gram. 15
406	406	‘‘(D) R
407	407	ELIGIOUS EXERCISE .—The term 16
408	408	‘religious exercise’ has the meaning given the 17
409	409	term in section 8 of the Religious Land Use 18
410	410	and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (42 19
411	411	U.S.C. 2000cc–5). 20
412	412	‘‘(E) S
413	413	ERVICES.—The term ‘services’, used 21
414	414	with respect to a social services program, in-22
415	415	cludes the provision of goods, or of financial as-23
416	416	sistance, under the social services program. 24
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420	420	‘‘(F) SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAM .—The 1
421	421	term ‘social services program’— 2
422	422	‘‘(i) means a program that is adminis-3
423	423	tered by the Federal Government, or by a 4
424	424	State or local government using Federal fi-5
425	425	nancial assistance, and that provides serv-6
426	426	ices directed at reducing poverty, improv-7
427	427	ing opportunities for low-income children, 8
428	428	revitalizing low-income communities, em-9
429	429	powering low-income families and low-in-10
430	430	come individuals to become self-sufficient, 11
431	431	or otherwise helping people in need; and 12
432	432	‘‘(ii) includes a program that provides, 13
433	433	to people in need— 14
434	434	‘‘(I) child care services, protective 15
435	435	services for children and adults, serv-16
436	436	ices for children and adults in foster 17
437	437	care, adoption services, services re-18
438	438	lated to management and mainte-19
439	439	nance of the home, day care services 20
440	440	for adults, and services to meet the 21
441	441	special needs of children, older indi-22
442	442	viduals, and individuals with disabil-23
443	443	ities; 24
444	444	‘‘(II) transportation services; 25
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448	448	‘‘(III) job training and related 1
449	449	services, and employment services; 2
450	450	‘‘(IV) information, referral, and 3
451	451	counseling services; 4
452	452	‘‘(V) the preparation and delivery 5
453	453	of meals, nutrition services, and serv-6
454	454	ices related to soup kitchens or food 7
455	455	banks; 8
456	456	‘‘(VI) health support services; 9
457	457	‘‘(VII) literacy and mentoring 10
458	458	services; 11
459	459	‘‘(VIII) services for the preven-12
460	460	tion and treatment of juvenile delin-13
461	461	quency and substance abuse, services 14
462	462	for the prevention of crime and the 15
463	463	provision of assistance to the victims 16
464	464	and families of criminal offenders, and 17
465	465	services related to intervention in, and 18
466	466	prevention of, domestic violence; or 19
467	467	‘‘(IX) services related to the pro-20
468	468	vision of assistance for housing under 21
469	469	Federal law.’’. 22
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