Hazard Pay for Essential Workers Act of 2020
Latest action · Sep 22, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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.
- IntroducedSep 22, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Hazard Pay for Essential Workers Act of 2020
This bill provides an additional $13 per hour of premium pay to employees performing specified essential work up to a maximum of $10,000 during and shortly after the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency; the bill provides for such pay out of the COVID-19 Hazard Fund through grants to employers.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 6
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Sep 22, 2020 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Sep 22, 2020 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Sep 22, 2020 |
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Sep 22, 2020 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Sep 22, 2020 |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Sep 22, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2020Introduced in House
- Sep 22, 2020Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 164, September 22, 2020, page H4716.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6800 | The Heroes Act | Related bill | Jul 23, 2020 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide hazard pay to frontline essential workers employed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Hazard Pay for Essential Workers Act of 2020
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Appropriations
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Child care and development
- Congressional oversight
- Department of the Treasury
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee leave
- Executive agency funding and structure
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Food industry and services
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Health personnel
- Income tax exclusion
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Labor and Employment
- Labor standards
- Medicaid
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Mental health
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Transportation employees
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Veterans' medical care
- Wages and earnings
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2020Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
