All Information (Except Text) for H.R.6800 - The Heroes Act116th Congress (2019-2020) |
Bill
Hide Overview| Sponsor: | Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17] (Introduced 05/12/2020) |
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| Committees: | House - Appropriations; Budget; Ways and Means |
| Committee Meetings: | 09/22/20 10:30AM 09/16/20 12:00PM 09/10/20 12:00PM (All Meetings) |
| Latest Action: | Senate - 07/23/2020 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. (All Actions) |
| Roll Call Votes: | There have been 2 roll call votes |
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- Economics and Public Finance
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Titles (32)
Short Titles
Short Titles - House of Representatives
Short Titles as Passed House
The Heroes Act
Short Titles as Passed House for portions of this bill
- ACCESS Act
- American Coronavirus/COVID-19 Election Safety and Security Act
- COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020
- COVID-19 HERO Act
- COVID-19 Heroes Fund Act of 2020
- COVID-19 Housing, Economic Relief, and Oversight Act
- COVID-19 Price Gouging Prevention Act
- Child Nutrition and Related Programs Recovery Act
- Coronavirus Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020
- Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2020
- Ensuring Diversity in Community Banking Act of 2020
- GROW Act
- Giving Retirement Options to Workers Act of 2020
- Global Health Security Act of 2020
- Health Care Access for Urban Native Veterans Act
- Inspector General Independence Act
- Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act
- Jabara-Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act of 2020
- Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2020
- PRC for Native Veterans Act
- Pandemic Justice Response Act
- Proper and Reimbursed Care for Native Veterans Act
- Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act of 2020
- SAFE Banking Act of 2020
- Scientific Integrity Act
- Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2020
- Tribal School Federal Insurance Parity Act
- Victims of Crime Act Fix Act of 2020
- Wildlife-Borne Disease Prevention Act of 2020
- Worker Health Coverage Protection Act
Actions Overview (2)
| Date | Actions Overview |
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| 05/15/2020 | Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 199 (Roll No. 109). |
| 05/12/2020 | Introduced in House |
All Actions (22)
| Date | Chamber | All Actions |
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| 07/23/2020 | Senate | Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. |
| 06/01/2020 | Senate | Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 455. |
| 05/21/2020 | Senate | Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. |
| 05/20/2020 | Senate | Received in the Senate. |
| 05/15/2020-9:26pm | House | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| 05/15/2020-9:26pm | House | On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 199 (Roll No. 109). (text: CR H2042-2220) |
| 05/15/2020-8:24pm | House | On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 198 - 209 (Roll no. 108). |
| 05/15/2020-7:18pm | House | Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2254-2255) |
| 05/15/2020-6:14pm | House | POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of Rule 19 further proceedings on H.R. 6800 were postponed. |
| 05/15/2020-6:14pm | House | The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. |
| 05/15/2020-6:09pm | House | DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Riggleman motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to strike in subtitle A of title I of division B, section 20102 pertaining to Individuals Providing Taxpayer Identification Numbers Taken into Account in Determining Credit and Rebates. |
| 05/15/2020-6:08pm | House | Mr. Riggleman moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Ways and Means. (text: CR H2253) |
| 05/15/2020-6:08pm | House | The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. |
| 05/15/2020-2:39pm | House | DEBATE - The House proceeded with two hours of debate on H.R. 6800. |
| 05/15/2020-2:39pm | House | Rule provides for consideration of H. Res. 965 and H.R. 6800. Measures will be considered read. Bills are closed to amendments. Rule provides for one hour of debate on H. Res. 965 and two hours of debate on H.R. 6800. |
| 05/15/2020-2:38pm | House | Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 967. (consideration: CR H2042-2253) |
| 05/15/2020-12:31pm | House | Rule H. Res. 967 passed House. |
| 05/14/2020-9:27pm | House | Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 967 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H. Res. 965 and H.R. 6800. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. Rule provides for one hour of debate on H. Res. 965 and two hours of debate on H.R. 6800. |
| 05/12/2020 | House | Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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. |
| 05/12/2020 | House | Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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. |
| 05/12/2020 | House | Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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. |
| 05/12/2020 | House | Introduced in House |
Cosponsors (11)
| Cosponsor | Date Cosponsored |
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| Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Grijalva, Raul M. [D-AZ-3]* | 05/12/2020 |
| Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]* | 05/12/2020 |
Committees (4)
Committees, subcommittees and links to reports associated with this bill are listed here, as well as the nature and date of committee activity and Congressional report number.
| Committee / Subcommittee | Date | Activity | Reports |
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| House Appropriations | 05/12/2020 | Referred to | |
| House Budget | 05/12/2020 | Referred to | |
| House Ways and Means | 05/12/2020 | Referred to | |
| Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship | 07/23/2020 | Hearings by |
Subjects (273)
Subject — Policy Area:
One Policy Area term, which best describes an entire measure, is assigned to every public bill or resolution.
- Accounting and auditing
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Adult day care
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Allied health services
- American Samoa
- Appropriations
- Architect of the Capitol
- Asia
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Bank accounts, deposits, capital
- Banking and financial institutions regulation
- Blood and blood diseases
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Building construction
- Business expenses
- Business records
- Buy American requirements
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Caribbean area
- Census and government statistics
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Chemical and biological weapons
- Child care and development
- Child health
- China
- Citizenship and naturalization
- Civil actions and liability
- Community life and organization
- Commuting
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional elections
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional-executive branch relations
- Consumer affairs
- Consumer credit
- Contracts and agency
- Corporation for National and Community Service
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Credit and credit markets
- Crime victims
- Crimes against women
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Debt collection
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Justice
- Department of Labor
- Department of State
- Department of Transportation
- Department of the Interior
- Department of the Treasury
- Detention of persons
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability and paralysis
- Disability assistance
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Drug therapy
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Due process and equal protection
- Economic performance and conditions
- Education programs funding
- Educational facilities and institutions
- Educational technology and distance education
- Election Assistance Commission
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency communications systems
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employee hiring
- Employee leave
- Employment and training programs
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Employment taxes
- Energy assistance for the poor and aged
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental health
- Evidence and witnesses
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family relationships
- Family services
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Federal Reserve System
- Federal officials
- Federal-Indian relations
- Financial services and investments
- Fires
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Food assistance and relief
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Foreign labor
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Fruit and vegetables
- General Services Administration
- Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government liability
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Guam
- HIV/AIDS
- Hate crimes
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Higher education
- Home and outpatient care
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Hospital care
- House of Representatives
- Housing and community development funding
- Housing discrimination
- Housing finance and home ownership
- Housing for the elderly and disabled
- Housing supply and affordability
- Humanities programs funding
- Immigration status and procedures
- Immunology and vaccination
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax exclusion
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Inflation and prices
- Insurance industry and regulation
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Intergovernmental relations
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- International organizations and cooperation
- Internet and video services
- Iran
- Judicial procedure and administration
- Juvenile crime and gang violence
- Landlord and tenant
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Law enforcement officers
- Lawyers and legal services
- Legal Services Corporation
- Libraries and archives
- Library of Congress
- Licensing and registrations
- Lighting, heating, cooling
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Manufacturing
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine and inland water transportation
- Marshall Islands
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Micronesia
- Middle East
- Military civil functions
- Military medicine
- Military operations and strategy
- Military personnel and dependents
- Minority and disadvantaged businesses
- Minority education
- Minority health
- Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
- National Credit Union Administration
- National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
- National Guard and reserves
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation
- National and community service
- Natural disasters
- Neurological disorders
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Nursing
- Nutrition and diet
- Oceania
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
- Organized crime
- Palau
- Performance measurement
- Postal service
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Prescription drugs
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Product development and innovation
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public housing
- Public transit
- Public-private cooperation
- Puerto Rico
- Railroad Retirement Board
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Research ethics
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Right of privacy
- Roads and highways
- Rural conditions and development
- Scientific communication
- Self-employed
- Separation, divorce, custody, support
- Small Business Administration
- Small business
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- State and local taxation
- Strategic materials and reserves
- Student aid and college costs
- Syria
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Tax treatment of families
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Telecommunication rates and fees
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Television and film
- Temporary and part-time employment
- Terrorism
- Transportation costs
- Transportation employees
- Transportation programs funding
- Transportation safety and security
- U.S. Postal Service
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Unemployment
- Urban and suburban affairs and development
- User charges and fees
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
- Veterans' medical care
- Veterans' pensions and compensation
- Virgin Islands
- Visas and passports
- Voting rights
- Wages and earnings
- Women in business
- Women's health
- Worker safety and health
- World health
- Youth employment and child labor
Latest Summary (2)
Shown Here:
Passed House (05/15/2020)
The Heroes Act
This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.
Among other things, the bill
- provides FY2020 emergency supplemental appropriations to federal agencies;
- provides payments and other assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments;
- provides additional direct payments of up to $1,200 per individual;
- expands paid sick days, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, nutrition and food assistance programs, housing assistance, and payments to farmers;
- modifies and expands the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans and grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations;
- establishes a fund to award grants for employers to provide pandemic premium pay for essential workers;
- expands several tax credits and deductions;
- provides funding and establishes requirements for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing;
- eliminates cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments;
- extends and expands the moratorium on certain evictions and foreclosures; and
- requires employers to develop and implement infectious disease exposure control plans.
The bill also modifies or expands a wide range of other programs and policies, including those regarding
- Medicare and Medicaid,
- health insurance,
- broadband service,
- medical product supplies,
- immigration,
- student loans and financial aid,
- the federal workforce,
- prisons,
- veterans benefits,
- consumer protection requirements,
- the U.S. Postal Service,
- federal elections,
- aviation and railroad workers, and
- pension and retirement plans.