US Congress House Bill 7920 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: Introduced on July 31 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-08-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes grants and authorizes the use of certain funds to assist with economic recovery efforts in communities affected by declines in travel and tourism as a result of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Commerce to provide grants to entities such as nonprofit organizations and state tourism offices that are responsible for marketing, selling, or promoting tourism to a community, region, or state. Such entities shall use grant funds to pay costs associated with (1) tourism marketing and promotion, (2) providing information to visitors about health and safety protections, (3) sanitation or cleaning, and (4) salaries and expenses related to such activities. Further, the bill authorizes a recipient of amounts from the coronavirus relief fund to use such amounts to cover certain expenditures that (1) are made to assist with the economic recovery of an area impacted by a decline in travel and tourism as a result of COVID-19, and (2) are associated with marketing or promoting travel or tourism to the recipient's area. The bill also specifies that tourism and marketing promotion activities shall be considered an eligible use of certain economic development assistance funds provided in response to COVID-19.

Healthy and Safe Travel Promotion Act of 2020

Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Ed Case [D-HI]
Rep. Steven Horsford [D-NV]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Salud Carbajal [D-CA]	Rep. Elaine Luria [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-08-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
2020-07-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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.
2020-07-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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.
2020-07-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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.
2020-07-31	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7920/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr7920/BILLS-116hr7920ih.pdf