Hazard Pay for Health Care Heroes Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 23
- Latest action
- Apr 23, 2026
What it does
The Hazard Pay for Health Care Heroes Act would amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize emergency grants to public or private nonprofit health care facilities and home health agencies to provide hazardous duty compensation to essential health care workers during declared emergencies or disasters. Eligible workers—including direct care providers, medical technologists, public health workers, orderlies, and custodial staff in health care settings whose work cannot be done remotely—could receive up to $13 per hour in additional hazard pay, capped at $25,000 annually per worker, if their work or commute is deemed hazardous by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Grant funds may…
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Where it stands
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Summer Lee
- André Carson
- Ayanna Pressley
- Becca Balint
- Bonnie Watson Coleman
- Eleanor Norton
- Gregorio Casar
- Jasmine Crockett
- Jennifer McClellan
- Jill Tokuda
- Jonathan Jackson
- Lateefah Simon
- Marilyn Strickland
- Maxwell Frost
- Pramila Jayapal
- Rashida Tlaib
- Ro Khanna
- Robert Garcia
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove
- Terri Sewell
- Troy Carter
- Valerie Foushee
- Yvette Clarke
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.