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• Businesses that transport residents of long-term care facilities located in Kenosha County are immediately required to wear personal protective equipment while transporting said residents and that such equipment shall at a minimum include gloves and a facemask, so long as such equipment does not unreasonably obstruct the driver’s ability to safely navigate the roadway.
• Only transports of residents in long-term care facilities for essential services should be allowed. Essential services are those required for the health, safety, and welfare of the resident as determined by the resident or his or her guardian of the person, if any, or a medical or dental provider, or long-term care facility.
• All vehicles involved in the transport of residents as set forth in this order shall be deep cleaned at a minimum of each day that a transport is occurring or scheduled to occur.

• Temporary suspension of Medicare sequestration cut. The bill would suspend the sequestration payment reduction on all Medicare programs from May 1 through Dec. 31, 2020 (Div. A, § 3709).
• $100 billion fund for eligible health care providers. The bill would appropriate $100 billion to the Secretary of Health and Human Services in order to reimburse “eligible health care providers” for health care-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to coronavirus. The term “eligible health care providers” includes Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers, as well as other for-profit and nonprofit entities “that provide diagnoses, testing, or care for individuals with possible or actual cases of COVID-19.”

• $200 million in funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus. The bill would appropriate $200 million to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in order “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.” CMS must use no less than half of that amount “for necessary expenses of the survey and certification program,” prioritizing skilled nursing facilities in localities with community transmission of coronavirus. However, the bill appears to give CMS significant discretion in how to expend the remaining $100 million (Div. B, tit. VIII).
• Child care support for health care sector employees. The bill provides $3.5 billion in grants to states to support child care for families, specifically authorizing the use of such grant funds to “provide child care assistance to health care sector employees, emergency responders, sanitation workers, and other workers deemed essential during the response to coronavirus by public officials,” regardless of income level (Div. B, tit. VIII).
• New loan program for certain employers. The bill would create a “paycheck protection program” by which small businesses and certain other employers could obtain loans through a new program administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Generally, an eligible loan applicant could have no more than 500 employees. It remains uncertain whether, through application of SBA’s existing affiliation rules, employee totals in the LT/PAC sector would be aggregated in the case of entities with common ownership or control. Eligible applicants would have to certify that the amounts borrowed would be used to do such things as maintain payroll and make rent or mortgage payments.

• Funding for housing for the elderly and disabled. The bill appropriates $50 million to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide assistance to owners of certain properties providing supportive housing for the elderly. Similarly, the bill appropriates $15 million for assistance to owners of certain properties providing supportive housing for persons with disabilities.
• Deferral of 6.2 percent payroll tax. The bill would defer the deadline for employers to pay the 6.2 percent tax on wages from the date of enactment through the end of 2020. Fifty percent of such taxes would be due on Dec. 31, 2021, with the remainder due on Dec. 31, 2022. However, an employer would be ineligible to defer payment of such taxes if the taxpayer receives loan forgiveness under a new loan program established elsewhere in the bill and administered by SBA (Div. A, § 2302).
• Temporary relaxation of rules limiting net operating loss deductions. Net operating losses (NOLs) are currently subject to a taxable income limitation, and they cannot be carried back to reduce income in a prior tax year. The bill temporarily removes the taxable income limitation to allow a NOL to fully offset income. The bill also would provide that a NOL arising in a tax year beginning in 2018, 2019, or 2020 can be carried back five years.

• Relaxation of excess business loss rules for passthroughs and sole proprietors. The bill provides for a temporary relaxation, until Dec. 31, 2020, of the “excess business loss” rules that limit current net losses attributable to a noncorporate taxpayer’s trade or business to $250,000 ($500,000 for joint filers), indexed for inflation annually (Div. A, § 2304).
• Refundable employee retention tax credit. The bill provides for a temporary 50 percent refundable tax credit, computed on a calendar-quarter basis, against the 6.2 percent employer-side Social Security payroll tax. However, only employers that are either (a) subject to full or partial business suspension due to a government order or (b) whose gross receipts during a quarter (beginning with the first calendar quarter beginning after Dec. 31, 2019) have declined by more than 50 percent when compared with the same quarter in the prior year qualify for the employee retention tax credit (Div. A, § 2301).