The Heroes Act

Bill: 116-hr-6800
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2020-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Adult day care
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Allied health services
American Samoa
Appropriations
Architect of the Capitol
Asia
Assault and harassment offenses
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Blood and blood diseases
Border security and unlawful immigration
Building construction
Business expenses
Business records
Buy American requirements
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Caribbean area
Census and government statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemical and biological weapons
Child care and development
Child health
China
Citizenship and naturalization
Civil actions and liability
Community life and organization
Commuting
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional agencies
Congressional elections
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Corporation for National and Community Service
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Credit and credit markets
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Debt collection
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Detention of persons
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Disaster relief and insurance
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Due process and equal protection
Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Employment taxes
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Family relationships
Family services
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Financial services and investments
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Food assistance and relief
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign labor
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Fruit and vegetables
General Services Administration
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Guam
HIV/AIDS
Hate crimes
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Hospital care
House of Representatives
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Humanities programs funding
Immigration status and procedures
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
Inflation and prices
Insurance industry and regulation
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Intergovernmental relations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International organizations and cooperation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Iran
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Landlord and tenant
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Legal Services Corporation
Libraries and archives
Library of Congress
Licensing and registrations
Lighting, heating, cooling
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Manufacturing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marshall Islands
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Micronesia
Middle East
Military civil functions
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Minority education
Minority health
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
National Credit Union Administration
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
National Guard and reserves
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation
National and community service
Natural disasters
Neurological disorders
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Oceania
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Organized crime
Palau
Performance measurement
Postal service
Poverty and welfare assistance
Prescription drugs
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Product development and innovation
Public contracts and procurement
Public housing
Public transit
Public-private cooperation
Puerto Rico
Railroad Retirement Board
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Research ethics
Retail and wholesale trades
Right of privacy
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Scientific communication
Self-employed
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social security and elderly assistance
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Strategic materials and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Syria
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families
Tax-exempt organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-12
text: 

Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act 

 
This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.
 
Among other things, the bill 
 
 
provides FY2020 emergency supplemental appropriations to federal agencies; 
 
provides payments and other assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; 
 
provides additional direct payments of up to $1,200 per individual; 
 
expands paid sick days, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, nutrition and food assistance programs, housing assistance, and payments to farmers; 
 
modifies and expands the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans and grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations; 
 
establishes a fund to award grants for employers to provide pandemic premium pay for essential workers; 
 
expands several tax credits and deductions; 
 
 provides funding and establishes requirements for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing; 
 
eliminates cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments;
 
extends and expands the moratorium on certain evictions and foreclosures; and
 
requires employers to develop and implement infectious disease exposure control plans.
 
 
The bill also modifies or expands a wide range of other programs and policies, including those regarding 
 
 
Medicare and Medicaid, 
 
 health insurance, 
 
broadband service, 
 
 medical product supplies, 
 
 immigration, 
 
 student loans and financial aid, 
 
 the federal workforce, 
 
prisons, 
 
 veterans benefits, 
 
consumer protection requirements, 
 
 the U.S. Postal Service, 
 
federal elections, 
 
 aviation and railroad workers, and
 
pension and retirement plans. 
 

action_date: 2020-05-15
text: 

The Heroes Act

 
This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.
 
Among other things, the bill 
 
 
provides FY2020 emergency supplemental appropriations to federal agencies; 
 
provides payments and other assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; 
 
provides additional direct payments of up to $1,200 per individual; 
 
expands paid sick days, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, nutrition and food assistance programs, housing assistance, and payments to farmers; 
 
modifies and expands the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans and grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations; 
 
establishes a fund to award grants for employers to provide pandemic premium pay for essential workers; 
 
expands several tax credits and deductions; 
 
 provides funding and establishes requirements for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing; 
 
eliminates cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments;
 
extends and expands the moratorium on certain evictions and foreclosures; and
 
requires employers to develop and implement infectious disease exposure control plans.
 
 
The bill also modifies or expands a wide range of other programs and policies, including those regarding 
 
 
Medicare and Medicaid, 
 
 health insurance, 
 
broadband service, 
 
 medical product supplies, 
 
 immigration, 
 
 student loans and financial aid, 
 
 the federal workforce, 
 
prisons, 
 
 veterans benefits, 
 
consumer protection requirements, 
 
 the U.S. Postal Service, 
 
federal elections, 
 
 aviation and railroad workers, and
 
pension and retirement plans. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2020-06-01
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 455.
action_date: 2020-05-21
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2020-05-20
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 199 (Roll No. 109). (text: CR H2042-2220)
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 199 (Roll No. 109).
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 198 - 209 (Roll no. 108).
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2254-2255)
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of Rule 19 further proceedings on H.R. 6800 were postponed.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Riggleman motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to strike in subtitle A of title I of division B, section 20102 pertaining to Individuals Providing Taxpayer Identification Numbers Taken into Account in Determining Credit and Rebates.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Mr. Riggleman moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Ways and Means. (text: CR H2253)
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with two hours of debate on H.R. 6800.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Rule provides for consideration of H. Res. 965 and H.R. 6800. Measures will be considered read. Bills are closed to amendments. Rule provides for one hour of debate on H. Res. 965 and two hours of debate on H.R. 6800.
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 967. (consideration: CR H2042-2253)
action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Rule H. Res. 967 passed House.
action_date: 2020-05-14
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 967 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H. Res. 965 and H.R. 6800. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. Rule provides for one hour of debate on H. Res. 965 and two hours of debate on H.R. 6800.
action_date: 2020-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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.
action_date: 2020-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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.
action_date: 2020-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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.
action_date: 2020-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-12
text: Introduced in House