Coronavirus Frontline Workers Fair Pay Act
Summary
Coronavirus Frontline Workers Fair Pay Act This bill provides hazard pay, in addition to regular pay, to health care and essential workers for specified periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Health care workers, which include physicians and support staff, among others, are eligible for a maximum of $35,000 in aggregate hazard pay. Essential workers, as determined by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, are eligible for a maximum of $25,000 in aggregate hazard pay. The Department of the Treasury must make payments to employers based on an employer's quarterly projections of the number of hours worked by eligible employees, including specified hours worked prior to the enactment of this bill. Employers must issue hazard payments to eligible employees not later than 14 days after receiving payments from Treasury. The bill establishes and provides funding for the Coronavirus Essential and High-Risk Health Care Workers Hazard Payment Fund to implement this program.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 7, 2021
Last action May 7, 2021
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May 7, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
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May 7, 2021
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Introduced in House
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1 primary · 12 co-sponsors
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Matt Cartwright
DDemocratic
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Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
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Alan S. Lowenthal
DDemocratic
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
DDemocratic
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Bill Foster
DDemocratic
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Bobby L. Rush
DDemocratic
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Brendan F. Boyle
DDemocratic
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
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Janice D. Schakowsky
DDemocratic
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Linda T. Sánchez
DDemocratic
Co
Nydia M. Velázquez
DDemocratic
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