Gov. Wolf Expands 'Stay-at-Home' Order, U.S. House Passes CARES Act, and Other News
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Gov. Wolf issues "stay-at-home" order for nine more counties.
Pennsylvania's "stay-at-home" order now includes Allegheny, Berks, Bucks, Butler, Chester, Delaware, Erie, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Pike, Wayne, Westmoreland and York counties. To read the governor's proclamation,
click here. To see the guidelines for affected counties,
click here.
U.S House passes CARES Act, sends historic relief package to President Trump.
To
recap from yesterday's edition of
Capitol Buzz
, at the core of the legislation is $300 billion in direct payments to households to help put more money into the hands of most Americans, $250 billion for expanded unemployment compensation for workers who have been furloughed or laid off due to the pandemic, significant funding to help small businesses and nonprofits weather the economic storm caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, and $500 billion to help “severely distressed” sectors of the economy that have been devastated by the virus.
Dentists in Pennsylvania can provide emergency dental care to patients.
Under the new guidelines, dentists in Pennsylvania will be able to provide care for patients with severe pain and swelling, or who have had traumatic injuries to their teeth without the requirement to use negative pressure rooms, which are not available in dental offices, hospitals, public health facilities or dental schools.
Pennsylvania Speaker of the House introduces bill to provide blanket construction exemption.
In the wake of Gov. Wolf's reluctance to provide a statewide, blanket exemption for Pennsylvania's construction industry to his order closing the physical locations of "non-life-sustaining" businesses, Speaker of the House Mike Turzai filed a memo today expressing his intention to introduce a bill that would compel the administration to allow construction projects to continue during the shutdown order.
Rep. Turzai's proposed legislation would require the Department of Community and Economic Development to issue a waiver to the Governor’s COVID-19 business closure order to all public and private construction activities that can adhere to social distancing practices and other mitigation measures defined by the Centers for Disease Control.
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