Protecting Outpatient Access Act of 2020
Latest action · May 12, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 12, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Protecting Outpatient Access Act of 2020
This bill expands the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), to encompass certain outpatient care centers that are affiliates of nonprofit hospitals.
Such care centers include mental health and substance abuse centers, dialysis centers, health maintenance organization medical centers, and freestanding ambulatory surgical and emergency centers.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 12, 2020Introduced in House
- May 12, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
- Business expenses
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Commerce
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health facilities and institutions
- Home and outpatient care
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Mental health
- Small business
- Surgery and anesthesia
- Wages and earnings
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 12, 2020Introduced in House
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