{"id":42544,"date":"2020-08-17T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=42544"},"modified":"2020-08-17T06:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:26:41","slug":"nevada-gov-steve-sisolak-signs-bill-protecting-workers-businesses-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/nevada-gov-steve-sisolak-signs-bill-protecting-workers-businesses-during-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signs bill protecting workers, businesses during COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42545\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42545\" class=\"wp-image-42545 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nevada-Gov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nevada-Gov.jpg 750w, https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Nevada-Gov-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in the former Assembly chambers inside the State Capitol in Carson City, Nev.<br \/>David Calvert\/Nevada Independent via AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(<em>Michael McGrady<\/em>) \u2014 Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation this week that supporters say will give hospitality workers more protections amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Over a video call Tuesday, Sisolak signed\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.nv.us\/App\/NELIS\/REL\/32nd2020Special\/Bill\/7156\/Overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 4<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the presence of Geoconda Arg\u00fcello-Kline of the Culinary Workers Union,\u00a0MGM Resorts CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle, and Irma Fernandez \u2014 the daughter of Adolfo Fernandez, a\u00a0Caesars Entertainment employee who contracted COVID-19 and died in June.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which was passed by both chambers last week, mandates that the Department of Health and Human Services &#8220;establish minimum standards&#8221; for cleaning facilities that accommodate the public within Clark and Washoe Counties to prevent COVID-19 spread. Facilities then must &#8220;establish, implement and maintain&#8221; a COVID-19 response plan.<\/p>\n<p>SB 4 also provides some legal protection for business and organizations that comply with public health requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bill provides that certain businesses conducted for profit, governmental entities and private nonprofit organizations are immune from civil liability for personal injury or death resulting from exposure to COVID-19, if the business, governmental entity or private nonprofit organization substantially complied with controlling health standards,&#8221; the legislation says.<\/p>\n<p>Sisolak said the legislation &#8220;isn&#8217;t about economic expansion \u2013 it&#8217;s about our state&#8217;s economic survival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about acknowledging that Nevada relies heavily on a single industry \u2013 the hospitality industry \u2013 and in order to make it through this historic storm, we must ensure it survives,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But it&#8217;s not just about protecting the businesses \u2013 it&#8217;s also about protecting the workers that keep this industry and our economy running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/users\/profile\/Michael%20McGrady\">Michael McGrady<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/\">The Center Square<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Michael McGrady) \u2014 Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation this week that supporters say will give hospitality workers more protections amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Over a video call Tuesday, Sisolak signed\u00a0Senate Bill 4\u00a0in the presence of Geoconda Arg\u00fcello-Kline of the Culinary Workers Union,\u00a0MGM Resorts CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle, and Irma Fernandez \u2014 the daughter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88912,"featured_media":42545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42546,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions\/42546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}