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Pandemic Relief Dead Ends — proposed relief legislation of 2020

Pandemic Relief Dead Ends — 21 court filings in the archive, mostly from GPO/GovInfo, filed between April 1, 2020 and December 29, 2020. Among them: 1 memorandum or brief.

Case facts

CaptionCornyn Measure Will Protect Health Care Providers Schools Charities and Small Businesses from Frivolous Litigation
CourtGPO/GovInfo (4 filings); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) (2 filings)
Filings21 public filings
Filed2020-04-01 – 2020-12-29
Document typesmemorandum or brief (1)
Original PDFs5 of 21

Case summary

This page is a collection of 21 documents dated April 1 to December 29, 2020, drawn from congressional and executive sources rather than from a court docket. They include bills as introduced — H.R. 6496, the Emergency Money for the People Act; H.R. 6918, the Paycheck Recovery Act of 2020; H.R. 7197, the RESTAURANTS Act of 2020; H.R. 7027, the Child Care Is Essential Act; and S. 4317, the Safe to Work Act — together with sponsor one-pagers and cost analyses, a Congressional Research Service report on COVID-19 relief assistance to small businesses, Senate hearing testimony, Congressional Record passages and a Statement of Administration Policy of October 1, 2020 opposing H.R. 8406. The documents record what each proposal would have done and the positions taken on it. No party, docket or ruling appears on the page.

Case at a glance

PartiesNone. The documents issue from the House and Senate, individual members and committees, the Congressional Research Service, the Executive Office of the President and the National Independent Venue Association
Court and docketAgency and legislative documents, no docket. The page's source line names GPO/GovInfo (4 filings) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-WA-07 (2 filings)
ProgramProposals alongside the enacted programs: a payroll grant program for employers affected by COVID-19 (H.R. 6918), a $120,000,000,000 Restaurant Revitalization Fund (H.R. 7197), the Save Our Stages Act, and the Small Business Administration programs surveyed in CRS report R46284
ClaimsNot applicable. These are introduced bills, sponsor summaries, a CRS report, hearing testimony, Congressional Record passages and a Statement of Administration Policy
Disposition or statusNot a case, so no disposition. The documents state their own: the Administration said on October 1, 2020 that it opposed H.R. 8406, and a NIVA backgrounder states the Save Our Stages Act was signed into law on December 27, 2020 as the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program
Status checked2026-09-23 · against DOJ press releases through 2026-09-22; court docket not yet read

What is on this page?

Twenty-one documents filed between April 1 and December 29, 2020: five bill texts as introduced, sponsor one-pagers and press releases, a Congressional Research Service report, two hearing records, Congressional Record passages and one Statement of Administration Policy.

What did the bills propose?

H.R. 6918 would direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a grant program for employers adversely affected by COVID-19. H.R. 7197 would establish a $120,000,000,000 Restaurant Revitalization Fund to provide structured relief to food service or drinking establishments through December 31, 2020.

Did any of these proposals become law?

One of them did. The NIVA backgrounder on the page states that the Save Our Stages Act, officially named the Shuttered Venues Operators Grant Program, was signed into law as part of the second COVID-19 relief bill on December 27, 2020, allocating $15 billion through the Small Business Administration. The Statement of Administration Policy of October 1, 2020 states that the Administration opposed H.R. 8406.

Summary written from the documents on this page; every sentence is sourced.

Filings

21 public filings from this case, in filing-date order.

  1. The COVID-19 Heroes Fund — Senate Democrats Proposal PDF
  2. Paycheck Guarantee Act — One-Pager
  3. H.R. 6496 — Emergency Money for the People Act (IH)
  4. Paycheck Guarantee Act — Cost and Economic Analysis
  5. CRS R46284 — COVID-19 Relief Assistance to Small Businesses: Issues and Policy Options
  6. COVID-19's Impact on Small Business — Senate Small Business Committee HearingPDF
  7. The Paycheck Recovery Act: Stopping Mass Unemployment While Keeping Workers Connected to Employers
  8. Smart Act Introduction — Cassidy Menendez Press Release (Volcker Alliance)
  9. H.R. 6918 — Paycheck Recovery Act of 2020 (IH)
  10. Van Hollen Schumer Wyden Introduce Legislation to Extend…
  11. H.R. 7027 — Child Care Is Essential Act — Rules Committee Print 116-58PDF
  12. H.R. 7197 — RESTAURANTS Act of 2020 (IH)
  13. Congressional Record Senate — SAFE TO WORK Act Introduction DayPDF
  14. Cornyn Measure Will Protect Health Care Providers Schools…
  15. S. 4317 — Safe to Work Act (is) — Full Bill TextPDF
  16. Restaurants in America During the COVID-19 Pandemic — TestimonyPDF
  17. Statement of Administration Policy — H.R. 8406 (Heroes Act 2.0) Veto ThreatMemorandum or brief
  18. NIVA Backgrounder: The Case for Save Our Stages
  19. Chairman Neal Introduces the CASH Act to Provide $2000 Stimulus Checks
  20. How Much Would $2000 Checks Cost?
  21. Congressional Record Senate — McConnell Blocks UC on $2000 Checks

Court, dates and docket numbers are as recorded on the filings.

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