Frank Burns voted Nay (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Extends Workplace Protections Related to COVID-19
Title: Extends Workplace Protections Related to COVID-19
Vote to amend and pass a bill that extends workplace protections related to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Prohibits employers from terminating, depriving, or threatening employees as a result of the employee’s compliance with an order of isolation, quarantine, or other measures relating to COVID-19 (Sec 1).
Specifies that this protection does not require the employer to compensate the individual for time lost because of isolation or quarantine due to COVID-19 (Sec 1).
Authorizes employees to pursue a civil action for wages and benefits lost and reinstatement of employment as a result of wrongful termination related to COVID-19 (Sec 1).
Specifies that damages rewarded may not exceed actual wages and benefits lost (Sec 1).
Authorizes loans to be made to municipalities for the following purposes and in the following amounts (Sec 2):
$150,000 for purchasing a single piece of equipment or for 50 percent of the total cost of the equipment, whichever is less;
$250,000 for any single facility or for 50 percent of the total cost to purchase, construct, renovate, or rehabilitate a facility, whichever is less.
Defines “municipality” as any borough, town, first-class township, second-class township, or third-class city or county that does not have a population in excess of 15,000 (Sec 2).
Specifies that loans will be subject to an interest rate set at the 10-year United States Treasury rate rounded to the closest quarter-point and not to exceed 2 percent per annum (Sec 2).
Specifies that loan applications will be subject to the interest rate in effect at the time a complete application is submitted to the department and it will remain the fixed rate for the full term of the loan (Sec 2).
Specifies that money will be lent over a term of years but never of the amount of 15 years (Sec 2).
Specifies that no department, commission, agency, office, or authority of the governor will enter into a contract requiring money from the following special fund accounts (Sec 4):
Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Fund;
Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority Fund;
Compulsive And Problem Gambling Treatment Fund;
Conservation District Fund;
Energy Development Fund;
Environmental Education Fund;
Environmental Stewardship Fund;
Historical Preservation Fund;
Industrial Development Fund;
Justice Reinvestment Fund;
Keystone Recreation, Park And Conservation Fund;
Minority Business Development Fund;
Pa Ehealth Partnership Fund;
Pa Infrastructure Bank;
Recycling Fund;
Solid Waste-resource Recovery Development Fund; or
Highway Beautification Fund.
Title: Authorizes Loans to Municipalities