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South Carolina General Assembly

124th Session, 2021-2022

H. 3578

STATUS INFORMATION

Concurrent Resolution
Sponsors: Rep. J. Moore
Document Path: l:\council\bills\jn\3331ph21.docx

Introduced in the House on January 12, 2021
Currently residing in the House Committee on Invitations and Memorial Resolutions

Summary: Governor and DHEC

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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  12/16/2020  House   Prefiled
  12/16/2020  House   Referred to Committee on Invitations and Memorial 
                        Resolutions
   1/12/2021  House   Introduced (House Journal-page 31)
   1/12/2021  House   Referred to Committee on Invitations and Memorial 
                        Resolutions (House Journal-page 31)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/16/2020

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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

TO MEMORIALIZE THE GOVERNOR AND ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO INTENSIFY EFFORTS TO RESTORE THE STATE'S HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY BY PRIORITIZING HOSPITALITY WORKERS IN COVID-19 TESTING AND INCLUDING HOSPITALITY WORKERS IN PHASE 1A OF THIS STATE'S VACCINE DISTRIBUTION PLAN.

Whereas, tourism is a 23.8 billion dollar industry in this State, supports one in every ten jobs, and generates 1.8 billion dollars in state and local taxes; and

Whereas, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of transmitting and spreading the coronavirus has resulted in societal shut downs of many businesses in the tourism industry in South Carolina; and

Whereas, as the tourism industry attempts to recover, businesses face staffing difficulties as hospitality workers are required to stay home and quarantine due to potential and actual exposures and when they contract the coronavirus and must stay home to recover; and

Whereas, when a hospitality worker tests positive for COVID-19, disruptions in business often occur, including unexpected closures to allow other staff to be tested, and such closures negatively impact business and the livelihood of hospitality workers; and

Whereas, a greater effort must be made to help hospitality workers, the lifeblood of the tourism industry, stay healthy and able to work; and

Whereas, it is the sense of the General Assembly that Governor McMaster and his Acting Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control should consider the ability of hospitality workers to stay safe and able to work essential in rebuilding the devastation on the tourism industry, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the General Assembly, by this resolution, memorialize the Governor and Acting Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control to intensify efforts to restore the state's hospitality industry by prioritizing hospitality workers in COVID-19 testing and including hospitality workers in Phase 1a of this state's vaccine distribution plan.

Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Honorable Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, and to the Honorable Marshall Taylor, Jr., Acting Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control.

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