Protecting America’s Workers Act

S. 665 · 113th Congress · Mar 22, 2013 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to expand coverage under the Act, to increase protections for whistleblowers, to increase penalties for high gravity violations, to adjust penalties for inflation, to provide rights for victims or their family members, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Protecting America’s Workers Act”.

(b)

Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 References

Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.).

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Mar 22, 2013viewing Introduced in Senate Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Franken, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Rockefeller, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Casey, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Cardin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Protecting America’s Workers Act

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

Sec. 2 References

Cite this provision

Incoming references