1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Emergency Rental Assistance Act of 2020 . 2. Emergency rental assistance (a) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under the Emergency Solutions Grants program under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.) $100,000,000,000 for grants under such subtitle only for providing rental assistance in accordance with section 415(a)(4) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11374(a)(4) ) and this section to respond to needs arising from the emergency declared on March 13, 2020, by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 4121 et seq.) relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic. (b) Income targeting For purposes of assistance made available with amounts made available pursuant to subsection (a)— (1) section 401(1)(A) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11360(1)(A) ) shall be applied by substituting 80 percent for 30 percent ; and (2) each grantee of such amounts shall use not less than 50 percent of the amounts received only for providing assistance for persons or families experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, who have incomes not exceeding 50 percent of the median income for the relevant geographic area