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April 24, 2020 The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has signed the conversion into law, with modifications, of Cura Italia. The decree approved by Parliament today and which bears the measures to strengthen the National Health Service and economic support for families, workers and businesses connected to the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19. Extension of deadlines for the adoption of legislative decrees.

The House votes with 229 yes 
In the afternoon, a final green light to the Chamber for the Cura Italia decree which thus becomes state law. The Chamber of Deputies has definitively approved it with 229 yes and 123 no (two abstained), without corrections with respect to the text approved by the Senate. The decree law passed on 17 March provides for measures to strengthen the national health system and support for working families and companies financed and fully absorbs the 25 billion deriving from the budget variance authorized by Parliament last month. The two legislative decrees passed at the beginning of March for the first emergency interventions in the economic and health fields were brought into the provision. While new and wider liquidity interventions have been entrusted by the DL to the examination of the Budget Committee of Montecitorio. 

Few changes to the Senate, then armored text in the Chamber.
The Cura Italia decree with the first measures to counter the economic emergency caused by Coronavirus has been converted into law with few changes compared to the text launched by the government. Some changes were introduced in the passage in the Senate, while the deputies in the House did not touch anything between the opposition protests. The decree had seen the light in Palazzo Chigi after the first and only comparison of merit on anti Coronavirus recipes between Prime Minister Conte and the leaders of the center-right result of moral suasion of the Quirinale. In Parliament it went ahead and was approved with confidence shots. On the other hand, as the Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri had made clear immediately, during his hearing on the provision for the start of the parliamentary process, the balances of the decree were practically armored and already looked at the April decree. The country's situation was rapidly evolving and the first request for deviation from the deficit targets had been corrected in the run by the executive and extended up to 20 billion in terms of net debt (equal to about 1.2 percentage points of GDP) for a measure that is worth 25 billion for the year 2020, launched on March 17, after the lockdown had started. The decree acts along four main lines of intervention: measures to strengthen the National Health Service and economic support for families, workers and businesses.

Four strands
As regards the health emergency, the resources available to the Health System have been increased to guarantee the personnel, tools and means necessary to assist people affected by the disease and for the prevention, mitigation and containment of the epidemic. Secondly, measures have been introduced to protect income and work.

The existing social safety nets, such as the Ordinary Wages Guarantee Fund, the Wages Guarantee Fund and the Derogation Wages Guarantee Fund, have been extended to all companies forced to limit or stop the activity due to Coronavirus, reducing in whole or in the working hours of the employees start. The decree suspends layoffs for economic reasons for the duration of the emergency period. 

In the decree, support for corporate liquidity , put at risk by the collapse of demand following the blockade of economic activity. Families are also safeguardedlike the expansion of the Fund on first home mortgages . The tax deadlines relating to tax and social security contributions are postponed. Secondly, there is an obligation to maintain banks' credit lines in order to respond promptly to the exceptional nature and urgency of liquidity, especially of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

In parallel, the state grants banks the guarantee on one third of the loans subject to a moratorium. The Central Guarantee Fund for SMEs is also strengthened , in terms of resources and operating methods, and a public guarantee is granted on the exposures assumed by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in favor of banks and financial intermediaries that provide loans to companies affected by the emergency and operating in specific sectors. 

The fourth line of intervention of the Cura Italia decree concerns sectoral aids for the sectors that suffered the most damage immediately after the explosion of the Covid-19 emergency such as the tourism-hotel emergency, transport, catering and bars, culture (cinemas, theaters) , sport and education. 

Among the changes introduced in the passage to Palazzo Madama, an amendment has been given the go-ahead which simplifies, in this emergency phase, access to public administrations and the procedures for conducting competitions , also making use of the help of 'head hunters' . 

Then there are: the extension to October 31 of the hydroelectric concessions and the regions affected by elections will have a further 7 months for the award procedures; a package of measures proposed by the parliamentary commission on  femicide with the additional expenditure of 3 million euros for 2020 in favor of existing public and private shelters throughout the national territory, the suspension of protected meetings with children if it is not possible do them remotely and continue the validations of the expulsion of the abusing man. 

The news also includes the 'concert' of the Labor-Mise-Mit ministries with the MEF on the decrees for the birth of the new Alitalia ; access to social safety nets until August also for companies that renewed or extended fixed-term employment contracts in the same period; the extension "also to employees of employers registered with the Wages Integration Fund (FIS) who employ more than 5 employees on average" of the additional three months of ordinary integration treatment or access to the ordinary check with the causal COVID emergency -l9 'for companies with production units located in the municipalities of the first red zone and for workers who reside there. 

And again: the " Family Card ", which provides discounts for the purchase of various goods and services, has been expanded for the benefit of those who have at least one child throughout the national territory; foreclosures on the debtor's main house are suspended for six months; an additional 2 million euros have been allocated to private schools and a flexible use of resources for distance learning, also in favor of measures for less well-off students; the purchase of masks, gloves and other medical devices and the contracts stipulated by the Civil Protection to deal with the Coronavirus emergency are "removed from the control of the Court of Auditors" and the accounting liability is limited to willful misconduct; residence permits for seasonal workers will be valid until 31 December and residence permits for non-EU workers are extended until 31 August 2020. Finally, among the Senate's interventions, a Fund with a budget of 10 million euros for 2020 destined for the adoption of solidarity initiatives in favor of family members of doctors, nursing staff and social-health workers (OSS) who "have contracted, as a consequence of the service activity provided, a pathology resulting in death due to direct effect or "as a contributing cause" of the COVID-19 infection ". 

The maxi-order of the health professions was not included among the beneficiaries of the Fund, which includes, among others, radiology technicians and physiotherapists , who are also at the forefront of the Coronavirus emergency: an attempt was made to correct the rule in a corner Camera, but the failure of the negotiations in Montecitorio on a mini-package of shared tweaks and the armoring of the text arrived from the Senate, left them out.