Many Louisiana workers can get $250.
Under the measure, certain employees deemed as an "essential critical infrastructure worker" will get the money.
Here is who the bill lists as eligible:
- Nurses, assistants, aides, medical residents, pharmacy staff, phlebotomists, respiratory therapists, and workers providing direct patient care in inpatient and outpatient dialysis facilities.
- Housekeeping, laundry services, food services, and waste management personnel in hospitals and health care facilities.
- Long-term care facility personnel, outpatient care workers, home care workers, personal assistance providers, home health providers, home delivered meal providers, childcare service providers.
- Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, fire and rescue personnel, law enforcement personnel, public health epidemiologists.
- Bus drivers; retail fuel center personnel; sanitation personnel; residential, commercial, and industrial solid waste and hazardous waste removal personnel; storage and disposal personnel.
- Grocery store, convenience store, and food assistance program personnel.
- Mortuary service providers.
- Veterinary service staff.
There are some limitations.
- It only applies to "workers whose adjusted gross income is $50,000 or less as reported on the worker's 2019 La. individual income tax return."
- Also, the measure defines an "essential critical infrastructure worker" as a La. resident individual who meets all of the following eligibility criteria:
- The worker is determined to be a worker as that term is defined by the federal Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.
- The worker was employed in certain specific employment sectors on or after March 11, 2020.
- The worker was required to provide in-person services outside of the worker's residence and was substantially dedicated to responding to or mitigating the COVID-19 public health emergency for at least 200 hours from March 22, 2020, through May 14, 2020.
