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Providing Essentials for Frontline Workers Act

Introduced: May 8, 2020 Introduced by: Sánchez, Linda T. Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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Providing Essentials for Frontline Workers Act

This bill allows an employer a payroll tax credit for certain pandemic-related employee benefit expenses paid by such employer after March 12, 2020, and before January 1, 2021. The amount of such credit is 50% of the pandemic-related expenses of essential employees and 30% for other employees. The amount of expenses taken into account for purposes of the credit for any employee may not exceed $5,000 in any calendar quarter.

The bill defines qualified pandemic-related employee benefit expenses as amounts paid to an employee that are excludible from gross income as disaster relief payments related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and that the employee has elected to treat as a pandemic-related expense.

The credit is not allowed to the federal government or its agencies, except for tax-exempt organizations.

What's happening now May 8, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6787: Providing Essentials for Frontline Workers Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-6787/
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"H.R. 6787: Providing Essentials for Frontline Workers Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-6787/.
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H.R. 6787, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-6787/.
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