American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act
Latest action · Jul 27, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedJul 27, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act
This bill provides assistance to workers, families, and employers during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic in the form of increased unemployment compensation, additional recovery rebates beginning in 2020, tax credits to promote job creation and employment, support for older foster youth, and emergency support and protection for nursing homes.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jul 27, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 27, 2020Introduced in Senate
- Jul 27, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4565, S4569 | John Hoeven R-ND, Patrick J. Leahy D-VT | Jul 29, 2020 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4492, S4495 | Chuck Grassley R-IA, Mitch McConnell R-KY | Jul 27, 2020 |
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.
CRS reports 7
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
About this bill 2
Products that name it in their title: its number, its law number or one of its short titles.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46470 | The American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act (S. 4318): Title II—Revenue Provisions and Other “HEALS Act” Tax Provisions Archived | Report | Jul 29, 2020 |
| IN11473 | COVID-19: Summary of Direct Payments in the American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act (S. 4318) Archived | Insight | Jul 28, 2020 |
Also cite it 5
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46680 | The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA; P.L. 117-2): Title IX, Subtitle G—Tax Provisions Related to Promoting Economic Security Archived | Report | Mar 16, 2021 |
| R45478 | Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 116th Congress | Report | Mar 8, 2021 |
| R46640 | The Social Security Administration’s Death Data: In Brief | Report | Jan 11, 2021 |
| IN11513 | COVID-19 and Direct Payments to Individuals: Comparison of Recent Proposals for a Second Round of Payments Archived | Insight | Oct 20, 2020 |
| IN11475 | Economic Activity and the Expiration of COVID-19 Relief Provisions Archived | Insight | Jul 30, 2020 |
Related bills 15
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide assistance to American workers, families, and employers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Administrative remedies
- Adoption and foster care
- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
- Appropriations
- Business expenses
- Business records
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Child care and development
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional oversight
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Debt collection
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of the Treasury
- Disability assistance
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employee hiring
- Employment taxes
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Hospital care
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax exclusion
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Intergovernmental relations
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Judicial procedure and administration
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Nursing
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Rural conditions and development
- Self-employed
- Separation, divorce, custody, support
- Small business
- Social Security Administration
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- State and local courts
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- State and local taxation
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Taxation
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Unemployment
- Wages and earnings
- Worker safety and health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 27, 2020Introduced in Senate
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.
