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Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2021

Introduced: February 5, 2021 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Feb 8, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 5, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 5, 2021
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Feb 5, 2021
Introduced in House
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Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2021

This bill compensates specified essential workers who die or are hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or related complications.

Specifically, the bill provides death benefits to survivors of essential workers equal to the amount available under the public safety officer benefits program. Essential workers include those identified in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency guidance or by a Special Master appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Such death benefits include additional payments to a surviving spouse or child enrolled in qualified postsecondary education.

Further, essential workers who are hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 receive one half of the base death benefit amount.

What's happening now February 8, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 15
All 15 Democratic 13
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Carson, André
Indiana · Feb 5, 2021
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Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Feb 5, 2021
 D
García, Jesús G. "Chuy"
Illinois · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Gomez, Jimmy
California · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Hayes, Jahana
Connecticut · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Khanna, Ro
California · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Neguse, Joe
Colorado · Feb 5, 2021
Newman, Marie
· Feb 5, 2021
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Pressley, Ayanna
Massachusetts · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Scanlon, Mary Gay
Pennsylvania · Feb 5, 2021
 D
Tlaib, Rashida
Michigan · Feb 5, 2021
Vela, Filemon
· Feb 5, 2021
 D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
New Jersey · Feb 5, 2021
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 900: Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-900/
MLA
"H.R. 900: Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-900/.
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H.R. 900, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-900/.
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[H.R. 900: Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2021](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-900/)
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