Title: Critical Infrastructure Employee Protection Act of 2020
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Critical Infrastructure Employee Protection Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to support state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions in providing (1) priority COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) testing for essential critical infrastructure employees; and (2) priority access to personal protective equipment, sanitizers, face coverings, and health-related or protective supplies necessary to safely perform essential critical infrastructure work. (Essential critical infrastructure employees include, but are not limited to, medical and health care, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3728 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3728

 To require the Secretary of Transportation to support the efforts of 
    State and local governments to provide for priority testing of 
     essential critical infrastructure workers with respect to the 
      Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2020

  Mr. Wicker (for himself, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Young) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Transportation to support the efforts of 
    State and local governments to provide for priority testing of 
     essential critical infrastructure workers with respect to the 
      Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 of 2020''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF COVID-19 TESTING NEEDS OF CRITICAL 
              INFRASTRUCTURE EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation shall--
            (1) adopt, for use by the Department of Transportation 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 
        Infrastructure Workforce published by the Department of 
        Homeland Security on March 28, 2020 (or a subsequent version of 
        that guidance); and
            (2) coordinate with the Director of the Centers for Disease 
        Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Federal 
        Emergency Management Agency to support efforts of State and 
        local governments to provide for--
                    (A) priority testing of essential critical 
                infrastructure workers (as that term is used in 
                paragraph (1)) with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 
                2019 (COVID-19); and
                    (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.
    (b) Application.--Nothing in this section requires the provision of 
priority testing or priority access to personal protective equipment 
for essential critical infrastructure workers (as that term is used in 
subsection (a)(1)) to be prioritized over the provision of that testing 
or access to personal protective equipment 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, 
including--
            (1) patients;
            (2) healthcare workers; and
            (3) first responders.
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