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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 164 (Tuesday, September 22, 2020)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. VAN DREW:H.R. 8349.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution[Page H4716]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Hazard Pay for Essential Workers Act of 2020</b><br> <br> This bill provides an additional $13 per hour of premium pay to employees performing specified essential work up to a maximum of $10,000 during and shortly after the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency; the bill provides for such pay out of the COVID-19 Hazard Fund through grants to employers.</p>]]></text>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, 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.</text>
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