United States · Bill · S
S. 4214 (116th)
A bill to provide a payroll tax credit for certain expenses associated with protecting employees from COVID-19.
Introduced
20 July 2020
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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7 April 2025
Summary
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.
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3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 20 July 2020
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 20 July 2020
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 20 July 2020
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4214
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/4214