Section 1. FRONTLINE WORKER PAYMENTS; PUBLIC PURPOSE.

This article is intended to provide payments to frontline workers whose work put them
at risk of contracting COVID-19 during the peacetime emergency declared by the governor
in Executive Order 20-01. The legislature finds that payments under this section specifically,
and under the premium pay provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 generally,
have a public purpose and benefit the people of Minnesota by:

(1) responding to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic which
resulted in the peacetime emergency; and

(2) compensating workers for working in conditions that, in many cases, exceeded what
was originally contemplated in their employment agreement to ensure our state was able to
continue functioning during the pandemic.

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