PRINTER'S NO. 4178
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2728
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY FIEDLER, MULLINS, BURGOS, ZABEL, KOSIEROWSKI,
A. DAVIS, MURT, LEE, GALLOWAY, READSHAW, RAVENSTAHL,
SCHWEYER, SCHLOSSBERG, DRISCOLL, SANCHEZ, ISAACSON, KORTZ,
McNEILL, WILLIAMS, HILL-EVANS, DeLUCA, FRANKEL, MADDEN,
O'MARA, MERSKI, McCLINTON, GAINEY, DONATUCCI, ROZZI, OTTEN,
HANBIDGE AND DEASY, JULY 30, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JULY 30, 2020
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, providing
for hazard pay.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 7309. Hazard pay.
(a) Authorization.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title or law, the following employees shall be awarded
hazard pay:
(1) An essential employee of a covered employer who,
during the proclamation of disaster emergency issued by the
Governor on March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March
21, 2020), and any renewal of the state of disaster
emergency, is required by the covered employer to perform the
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