Bill to extend aid and measures after the state of alarm ends

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1. The bill would keep health controls on international passengers arriving in Spain by air or sea: a health control form with a QR code, temperature checks, document and visual checks, and diagnostic tests for those arriving from risk countries.
2. It would suspend until December 31, 2021 the duty to convene and hold owners' meetings in condominiums, and to approve budgets and accounts, and would allow meetings by videoconference or voting by mail or electronic means with identity safeguards.
3. It would guarantee the supply of water, electricity and natural gas to vulnerable consumers until August 9, 2021, and would create a new category of vulnerable consumer entitled to the electricity bono socialBono social A discount on the electricity bill for low-income or vulnerable households. during the same period.
4. It would extend by three months, until August 9, 2021, the protections for primary residence leases: suspension of evictions for people in vulnerable situations, an extraordinary lease extension of up to six months, and deferral or partial forgiveness of rent when the landlord is a company, a public entity or a large holder. The deadline for landlords to request the corresponding compensation would be September 9, 2021.
5. It would extend until August 9, 2021 the status of essential services for services protecting and assisting victims of gender violencegender violence Violence a woman suffers from a current or former partner because she is a woman., and would unlink from the state of alarm the use of funds from the State Pact against Gender Violence.
6. It would add other socioeconomic and judicial measures: a 24-month extension of the adaptation period for labor societies created in 2017, 2018 and 2019, allowing cooperatives to use their education and promotion fund to ease the effects of COVID-19, keeping the pension compatibility for retired health professionals who return to work until December 31, 2021, and creating an urgent cassation appeal before the Supreme Court against judicial decisions on health measures that limit fundamental rights.

Who it affects

• Travelers arriving in Spain by plane or ship: They would have to fill out a health control form and undergo the health controls set by the Ministry of Health.
• Condominium owners' communities: They could suspend their meetings until December 31, 2021 or hold them by videoconference or electronic voting.
• Vulnerable households and vulnerable consumers: Their water, electricity or gas could not be cut off until August 9, 2021, and they could apply for the bono social.
• Tenants and landlords of homes: Eviction suspensions, lease extensions and rent deferrals would be extended until August 9, 2021.
• Victims of gender violence: Protection and assistance services would remain essential until August 9, 2021.

Words worth knowing

Estado de alarm (state of alarm)

An exceptional regime that allows the Government to temporarily limit some rights during a serious crisis, such as a pandemic.

Bono social

A discount on the electricity bill for low-income or vulnerable households.

Gran tenedor (large holder)

A person or company owning more than ten urban properties, or more than 1,500 square meters built, excluding garages and storage rooms.

Sociedad laboral (labor society)

A company where most shareholders are workers, with tax benefits and public aid.

Recurso de casación (cassation appeal)

An appeal to the Supreme Court to review judicial decisions and set a single interpretation of the law.

gender violence

Violence a woman suffers from a current or former partner because she is a woman.

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