A bill to provide continued emergency assistance, educational support, and health care response for individuals, families, and businesses affected by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Bill: 116-s-4775
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2020-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Alternative and renewable resources
American Samoa
Appropriations
Bankruptcy
Business ethics
Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Charitable contributions
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Coal
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Interior
Disability assistance
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Farm Credit Administration
Federal district courts
Federal preemption
Federal-Indian relations
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Guam
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Immunology and vaccination
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Infrastructure development
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations
International organizations and cooperation
Judicial procedure and administration
Jurisdiction and venue
Legal fees and court costs
Licensing and registrations
Life, casualty, property insurance
Manufacturing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Metals
Mining
Minority education
Minority health
Northern Mariana Islands
Performance measurement
Postal service
Product safety and quality
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Radioactive wastes and releases
Religion
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Self-employed
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
Special education
State and local finance
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Strategic materials and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology transfer and commercialization
Temporary and part-time employment
U.S. Postal Service
U.S. territories and protectorates
Unemployment
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings
Water quality
Water use and supply
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-09-30
text: 

Delivering Immediate Relief to America's Families, Schools and Small Businesses Act

 
This bill establishes measures and funding to provide economic relief and support for individuals, families, and businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). These measures include (1) implementing certain liability protections, (2) extending pandemic unemployment compensation, and (3) authorizing second draw loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 564.
action_date: 2020-09-30
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text: CR S5952-5980)
action_date: 2020-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate