American Food Workers Protection Act
United States116th CongressHR-8482House of Representatives
Updated: Oct 1, 2020
Summary
American Food Workers Protection Act This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to support state and local jurisdictions in providing (1) priority COVID-19 testing for essential critical food and agriculture workers; (2) priority access to personal protective equipment, sanitizers, face coverings, and other health-related or protective supplies necessary to safely perform essential critical infrastructure work; and (3) assurance that the federal agency responsible for the distribution of a vaccine for COVID-19 in the United States will prioritize essential critical food and agriculture workers for inoculation with the vaccine.
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Timeline
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
House of Representatives
Introduced in House
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