Support the Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act to provide tax credits and other recovery incentives for hospitality, travel, tourism, convention, trade show, entertainment, and restaurant businesses and workers affected by COVID-19.

Catherine Cortez Masto · Nevada · Democratic

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Occurrences

U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) ... today unveiled the Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2021, legislation that would provide comprehensive relief and recovery measures for the convention, trade show, entertainment, travel and hospitality industries and their workers.

Cortez Masto unveiled bipartisan federal legislation to provide COVID-19 recovery relief and incentives for hospitality, travel, tourism, convention, trade show, entertainment, and restaurant sectors.

Cortez Masto Leads House and Senate Colleagues in Bipartisan Bill to Support Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Industries - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
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Evidence

Sponsor: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Status: Introduced. Summary lists convention and trade show restart tax credit, employee retention credit extension, restaurant and dining restart credit, travel expenditure credit, and inventory credit.

Cortez Masto introduced the specific bill named in the promise, but Congress.gov shows it remained only introduced and referred to Finance, not enacted.

partial same_term A for effort

S.477 - Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2021, Congress.gov
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Latest Action: Became Public Law No: 117-2. Summary: the bill addressed COVID-19 impacts on individuals and businesses; Title V created support for small businesses, restaurants, shuttered venue operators, and other affected entities; Sec. 9651 extended the employee retention credit.

A separate COVID recovery law enacted some overlapping relief for restaurants, small businesses, venues, and employee retention, but it was not the full Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act package.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Congress.gov
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Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 1319, As Amended). Vote Result: Bill Passed. Cortez Masto (D-NV), Yea.

Cortez Masto voted for the American Rescue Plan, which passed the Senate and included partial hospitality and restaurant recovery provisions.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 117th Congress, 1st Session, Vote 110
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Sec. 5003 established the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, appropriated $28,600,000,000, and authorized grants to eligible restaurants and similar food or drink businesses for payroll, rent, utilities, supplies, operational expenses, paid sick leave, and other essential expenses.

The enacted law delivered major restaurant recovery assistance, one component related to the promise, through grants rather than the full set of tax credits in S.477.

partial same_term A for effort

Public Law 117-2 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, GovInfo
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Sec. 9651 created Internal Revenue Code section 3134, allowing eligible employers a credit equal to 70 percent of qualified wages, capped at $10,000 per employee per quarter, for wages paid after June 30, 2021 and before January 1, 2022.

The American Rescue Plan enacted the employee retention credit extension that overlapped with one explicit provision of the Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act.

partial same_term A for effort

Public Law 117-2 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, GovInfo
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House companion bill H.R.1346 had the same title, Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2021, in the 117th Congress.

The companion legislation confirms the specific Act was introduced bicamerally, but available official bill status does not show enactment of the Act itself.

never same_term A for effort

H.R.1346 - Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2021, Congress.gov
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Catherine Cortez Masto sponsored the specific Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act in the 117th Congress, but that bill was only introduced and referred to the Senate Finance Committee and did not become law. Some overlapping relief was enacted in the same term through the American Rescue Plan, including the Restaurant Revitalization Fund and an employee retention credit extension, and she voted for that law. Because the named Act and its full package of tax credits and incentives were not enacted, but she materially supported the proposal and helped pass related partial relief, the promise is best scored as partial rather than delivered.

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