---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7384f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7384f"
heading: "Legislative proposal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7384f"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program"
  - "Part A — Establishment of Compensation Program and Compensation Fund"
---

# §7384f. Legislative proposal

- (a) **Legislative proposal required—** Not later than March 15, 2001, the President shall submit to Congress a proposal for legislation to implement the compensation program. The proposal for legislation shall include, at a minimum, the specific recommendations (including draft legislation) of the President for the following:
  - (1) The types of compensation and benefits, including lost wages, medical benefits, and any lump-sum settlement payments, to be provided under the compensation program.
  - (2) Any adjustments or modifications necessary to appropriately administer the compensation program under part B.
  - (3) Whether to expand the compensation program to include other illnesses associated with exposure to toxic substances.
  - (4) Whether to expand the class of individuals who are members of the Special Exposure Cohort (as defined in [section 7384l(14)](/usc/42/7384l.md?p=14) of this title).
- (b) **Assessment of potential covered employees and required amounts—** The President shall include with the proposal for legislation under [subsection (a)](#a) the following:
  - (1) An estimate of the number of covered employees that the President determines were exposed in the performance of duty.
  - (2) An estimate, for each fiscal year of the compensation program, of the amounts to be required for compensation and benefits anticipated to be provided in such fiscal year under the compensation program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3613], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–498.)