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<item congress="116" measure-type="s" measure-number="4214" measure-id="id116s4214" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2020-07-20" update-date="2020-07-31">
<title>A bill to provide a payroll tax credit for certain expenses associated with protecting employees from COVID-19.</title>
<summary summary-id="id116s4214v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2020-07-31">
<action-date>2020-07-20</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>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</p> <ul> <li><i>qualified employee protection expenses</i> 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 </li> <li><i>qualified workplace reconfiguration expenses </i>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. </li> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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