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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3025 

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to adopt certain priorities with 

respect to critical infrastructure employees during the coronavirus pandemic, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 7, 2021 

Mr. CRAWFORD (for himself, Mr. COHEN, and Mr. ROUZER) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 

and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to adopt certain 

priorities with respect to critical infrastructure employees 

during the coronavirus pandemic, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Critical Infrastructure 

5 Employee Protection Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF COVID–19 TESTING NEEDS OF 

7 CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE EMPLOYEES. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 

9 shall— 


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1 (1) adopt, for use by the Department of Trans2 portation in carrying out response efforts relating to, 

3 and operations during, the Coronavirus Disease 

4 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic, the categorization of 

5 ‘‘essential critical infrastructure workers’’ identified 

6 in the Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastruc7 ture Workforce published by the Department of 

8 Homeland Security on August 18, 2020 (or a subse9 quent version of that guidance); and 

10 (2) coordinate with the Director of the Centers 

11 for Disease Control and Prevention and the Admin12 istrator of the Federal Emergency Management 

13 Agency to support efforts of State and local govern14 ments to provide for— 

15 (A) priority testing of essential critical in16 frastructure workers (as such term is used in 

17 paragraph (1)) with respect to the Coronavirus 

18 Disease 2019 (COVID–19); 

19 (B) priority access to personal protective 

20 equipment, sanitizers, nonmedical-grade facial 

21 coverings, and other health-related or protective 

22 supplies necessary to safely perform essential 

23 critical infrastructure work; and 


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1 (C) priority access to COIVD–19 vaccina2 tions, based on availability, for essential critical 

3 infrastructure workers. 

4 (b) APPLICATION.—Nothing in this section requires 

5 the provision of priority testing or priority access to per6 sonal protective equipment for essential critical infrastruc7 ture workers (as such term is used in subsection (a)(1)) 

8 to be prioritized over the provision of that testing or access 

9 to personal protective equipment or vaccinations for other 

10 individuals who are identified by the Centers for Disease 

11 Control and Prevention or any other relevant Federal, 

12 State, or local agency as having a higher priority for that 

13 testing or access to personal protective equipment, includ14 ing— 

15 (1) patients; 

16 (2) healthcare workers; and 

17 (3) first responders. 

18 SEC. 3. FUTURE HEALTH CRISIS. 

19 The Secretary of Transportation shall issue such reg20 ulations as are necessary to adopt any guidance from the 

21 Department of Homeland Security during any future 

22 health crisis to account for the transportation sector and 

23 ensure the Department takes substantially similar actions 


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1 regarding prioritization for essential critical infrastructure 

2 workers as described in section 2 of this Act. 

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