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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 pan-
demic, 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Critical Infrastructure 
Employee Protection Act’’. 
SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF COVID–19 TESTING NEEDS OF 
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE EMPLOYEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall— 
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(1) adopt, for use by the Department of Trans-
portation in carrying out response efforts relating to, 
and operations during, the Coronavirus Disease 
2019 (COVID–19) pandemic, the categorization of 
‘‘essential critical infrastructure workers’’ identified 
in the Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastruc-
ture Workforce published by the Department of 
Homeland Security on August 18, 2020 (or a subse-
quent version of that guidance); and 
(2) coordinate with the Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention and the Admin-
istrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency to support efforts of State and local govern-
ments to provide for— 
(A) priority testing of essential critical in-
frastructure workers (as such term is used in 
paragraph (1)) with respect to the Coronavirus 
Disease 2019 (COVID–19); 
(B) priority access to personal protective 
equipment, sanitizers, nonmedical-grade facial 
coverings, and other health-related or protective 
supplies necessary to safely perform essential 
critical infrastructure work; and 
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(C) priority access to COIVD–19 vaccina-
tions, based on availability, for essential critical 
infrastructure workers. 
(b) APPLICATION.—Nothing in this section requires 
the provision of priority testing or priority access to per-
sonal protective equipment for essential critical infrastruc-
ture workers (as such term is used in subsection (a)(1)) 
to be prioritized over the provision of that testing or access 
to personal protective equipment or vaccinations for other 
individuals who are identified by the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention or any other relevant Federal, 
State, or local agency as having a higher priority for that 
testing or access to personal protective equipment, includ-
ing— 
(1) patients; 
(2) healthcare workers; and 
(3) first responders. 
SEC. 3. FUTURE HEALTH CRISIS. 
The Secretary of Transportation shall issue such reg-
ulations as are necessary to adopt any guidance from the 
Department of Homeland Security during any future 
health crisis to account for the transportation sector and 
ensure the Department takes substantially similar actions 
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regarding prioritization for essential critical infrastructure 
workers as described in section 2 of this Act. 
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