US Congress Senate Bill 3497 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1)
Status: Introduced on March 12 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Expands unemployment benefits to certain individuals affected by the public health emergency declared by the Department of Health and Human Services on January 27, 2020, with respect to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, beginning on enactment of this bill and ending 26 weeks after the COVID-19 public health emergency expires, the Department of Labor must enter into an agreement with a state under which Labor shall finance 100% of such state's unemployment benefit assistance to unemployed workers who are not eligible for other federal or state unemployment insurance; meet certain conditions related to being unemployed, partially unemployed, or unable to work due to COVID-19; are not able to telework; and are not receiving other paid leave.

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act

Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]
Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB748 (Related) 2020-07-23 - Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3497/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3497/BILLS-116s3497is.pdf