1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cancer Centers Assistance for Renovations and Expansion Act of 2020 . 2. Cancer center construction grant program The Social Security Act is amended by inserting after section 1897 the following new section: 1897A. Cancer center construction grant program (a) Establishment The Secretary shall establish a program to award grants to qualifying cancer centers (as defined in subsection (b)) for payment of the capital costs of projects for the improvement of research, prevention, or patient care infrastructure. (b) Qualifying cancer center and other definitions In this section: (1) The term qualifying cancer center means an entity that is designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute. (2) The term project for the improvement of research, prevention, or patient care infrastructure means— (A) the expansion, remodeling, renovating, or altering of an existing clinical, prevention, or research facility; or (B) the construction of a new clinical, prevention, or research facility. (3) The term intended use means the purposes for which the infrastructure improvements were made. (4) The term shovel ready means, with respect to a project, that construction of the project will be completed within 5 years of the date on which a grant for such project is provided under this section. (c) Application; qualifications; terms of grants (1) In general No grant may be awarded under this section to a qualifying cancer center except pursuant to an application that is submitted and approved in a time, manner, and form specified by the Secretary. (2) Qualifications A grant may not be provided under this section for a project for a qualifying cancer center unless the applicant— (A) provides assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that— (i) the project— (I) is for the improvement of research, prevention, or patient care infrastructure of the center; (II) is shovel ready