US Congress Senate Bill 3548 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Introduced on March 19 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-06-03 - Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Addresses economic impacts of, and otherwise responds to, the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. The bill authorizes emergency loans to distressed businesses, including air carriers, and suspends certain aviation excise taxes. With respect to small businesses, the bill establishes, and provides funding for, forgivable bridge loans; and provides additional funding for grants and technical assistance. The bill also provides funding for $1,200 tax rebates to individuals, with additional $500 payments per qualifying child. The rebate begins phasing out when incomes exceed $75,000 (or $150,000 for joint filers). The bill establishes limits on requirements for employers to provide paid leave. With respect to taxes, the bill establishes special rules for certain tax-favored withdrawals from retirement plans; delays due dates for employer payroll taxes and estimated tax payments for corporations; and revises other provisions, including those related to losses, charitable deductions, and business interest. With respect to health care, the bill provides additional funding for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19; limits liability for volunteer health care professionals; prioritizes Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of certain drugs; allows emergency use of certain diagnostic tests that are not approved by the FDA; expands health-insurance coverage for diagnostic testing and requires coverage for preventative services and vaccines; revises other provisions, including those regarding the medical supply chain, the national stockpile, the health care workforce, the Healthy Start program, telehealth services, nutrition services, Medicare, and Medicaid. With respect to education, the bill temporarily suspends payments for federal student loans; and otherwise revises provisions related to campus-based aid, supplemental educational-opportunity grants, federal work-study, subsidized loans, Pell grants, and foreign institutions. The bill also authorizes the Department of the Treasury to temporarily guarantee money-market funds.

CARES Act Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act

Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]
Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]	Sen. Richard Shelby [R-AL]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-06-03	Senate	Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
2020-03-21	Senate	S.Amdt.1563 Referred to the Committee on Finance.
2020-03-21	Senate	S.Amdt.1562 Referred to the Committee on Finance.
2020-03-20	Senate	S.Amdt.1561 Referred to the Committee on Finance.
2020-03-19	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S1834-1859)

HB1922 (Related) 2020-12-18 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 559.
HB2985 (Related) 2019-05-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
HB3708 (Related) 2019-10-23 - Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
HB4100 (Related) 2019-07-31 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB4509 (Related) 2019-09-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
HB4801 (Related) 2020-03-11 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
HB4870 (Related) 2019-10-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB5443 (Related) 2019-12-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB2326 (Related) 2019-07-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB2589 (Related) 2019-09-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB2619 (Related) 2019-11-05 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288.
SB2629 (Related) 2020-01-14 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB2999 (Related) 2019-12-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB3220 (Related) 2020-01-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB3374 (Related) 2020-03-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
SB3438 (Related) 2020-03-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
SB3437 (Related) 2020-03-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HB748 (Related) 2020-07-23 - Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
SB3468 (Related) 2020-03-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HB6283 (Related) 2020-03-13 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
HB6282 (Related) 2020-03-13 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
SB3505 (Related) 2020-03-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
SB3535 (Related) 2020-03-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S1834)
SB3539 (Related) 2020-03-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB3478 (Related) 2020-03-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1743)
HB6315 (Related) 2020-03-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3548/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3548/BILLS-116s3548is.pdf