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A bill to provide a payroll tax credit for certain expenses associated with protecting employees from COVID-19.

Introduced: July 20, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jul 20, 2020
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill allows employers a 50% payroll tax credit for the cost of qualified employee protection expenses and qualified workplace reconfiguration expenses paid in a calendar quarter. The bill defines

  • qualified employee protection expenses as the cost of testing employees for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), equipment to protect employees from COVID-19, and cleaning products or services for preventing the spread of COVID-19; and
  • qualified workplace reconfiguration expenses as amounts paid to design and reconfigure retail space, work areas, break areas, or other employee or customer areas for the primary purpose of preventing the spread of COVID-19 and such design and reconfiguration is completed pursuant to a plan in place before March 13, 2020, and completed before January 1, 2021.
What's happening now July 20, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • HR 7615 Related bill To provide a payroll tax credit for certain expenses associated with protecting employees from COVID-19.
  • S 4318 Related bill American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act
  • S 4537 Related bill RECOVERY Act
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Jul 23, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4214: A bill to provide a payroll tax credit for certain expenses associated with protecting employees from COVID-19.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4214/
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