Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 850318.pdf

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large part, provide economic relief and economic stabilization in response to the

COVID-19 pandemic. With the exception of Title III and its emphasis on

supporting the health care system, the short title of the Act, its two divisions, and

the five other titles within Division A each set forth as their intended target

economic stabilization, financial assistance, or relief funding. Therefore, in

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addition to supporting the United States health care system, Congress plainly

intended that the Act provide economic relief and stabilization to major sectors of

the United States economy.

Turning to Title IV, within which Section 4024 is contained, Congress’s

economic relief and stabilization-driven purpose comes into sharper focus.

Indeed, it is telling of Congress’s economic intent that Section 4024 was located

within Title IV, titled “Economic Stabilization and Assistance to Severely

Distressed Sectors of the United States Economy,” and Subtitle A, “Coronavirus

Economic Stabilization Act of 2020.” The same is so of those sections

neighboring the temporary eviction moratorium within Subtitle A, setting forth

emergency relief to taxpayers, continuing air travel service, guaranteeing certain

debts, providing relief to certain banking entities, authorizing foreclosure

forbearance, providing federally-backed loan mortgage payment forbearance,

and protecting collective bargaining agreements. These provisions expressly

regard stabilization of distressed sectors of the United States economy disrupted

by the pandemic. Thus, the statutory context of not only the Act in general, but

also Title IV specifically was to provide economic stabilization in response to the