野党、家賃支援法案を衆院に提出　２割減収で猶予、１年念頭―新型コロナ

　立憲民主党など主要野党と日本維新の会は２８日、新型コロナウイルス感染拡大の影響で２割以上減収した事業者の家賃を支援する法案を衆院に共同提出した。中堅企業や個人事業主、新規事業者らが対象で、１年程度を念頭に日本政策金融公庫が家賃を肩代わり。返済できない場合は、国が立て替えることもできるとした。
　主要野党は家賃猶予の関連経費５兆円を、３０日成立予定の２０２０年度補正予算案に計上するよう要求。政府・与党も家賃支援は必要との認識だが、２次補正で対応策を検討する構えだ。法案提出後、国民民主党の後藤祐一氏は記者団に「一日も早い与野党協議に応じてほしい」と求めた。（2020/04/28-10:22）

Major opposition parties in Japan on Tuesday jointly submitted to the Diet, the country's parliament, a bill to support companies in difficulties paying rents for their business facilities in the face of slumping sales due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
   The bill was submitted to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other parties including Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party).
   It calls on government-affiliated Japan Finance Corp. to pay for about a year rents on behalf of smaller businesses, self-employed people and startups whose sales have dropped 20 pct or more due to the impacts of the virus crisis. If the businesses end up being unable to repay the money to the lender, the government may be asked to shoulder the costs, according to the bill.
   The opposition parties requested the government to include about 5 trillion yen for the rent relief program in its draft supplementary budget for fiscal 2020, which is slated to be enacted on Thursday.
   The government and the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling bloc also believe that some sort of rent support is necessary. But they are taking the stance of considering specific measures under a second supplementary budget for the year that started this month.