Save our Servers Act

Bill: 116-hr-9042
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Budd, Ted [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2020-12-21
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Commerce

Economic development

Employment and training programs

Food industry and services

Government studies and investigations

Higher education

Infrastructure development

State and local finance

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Save our Servers Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Department of Commerce from issuing specified grants to a state or local government that is restricting or prohibiting indoor or outdoor dining at restaurants.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9042 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 21, 2020 Mr. Budd introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure , and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services , 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 A BILL To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to prohibit the Secretary of Commerce from issuing certain grants to States or political subdivisions of States that restrict or prohibit indoor and outdoor dining, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Save our Servers Act . 2. Indoor and outdoor dining restriction Title II of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3141 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 219. Indoor and outdoor dining restriction Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, during the period in which a State, or a political subdivision of such State, has passed and is enforcing a law or order restricting or prohibiting indoor or outdoor dining at restaurants, the Secretary may not issue a grant under section 203(a), 205(b), or 207(a) to such State or a political subdivision of such State. .