HR 2873 · 105th Congress · Labor and Employment

To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

Introduced 1997-11-07· Sponsored by Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10]· House

Bill Progress

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Latest: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-732.(1998-09-18)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to require certain notices in the Federal Register to include identification of the specific industry or industries to which the OSHA standard, to be promulgated under the OSHA rule, will apply. Directs the Secretary of Labor to ensure that the OSHA standard, as applicable to each such industry, is based upon: (1) an assessment of the risks to workers in such industry from the hazard which is the subject of the standard; (2) the range of estimates and the best estimate of the quantifiable and nonquantifiable benefits of the standard in each such industry; and (3) an analysis of the costs likely to occur in each such industry as a result of compliance with the standard.…

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CBO Cost Estimate

Congressional Budget Office

H.R. 2873, A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act

Jul 14, 1998

Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on June 10, 1998

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Cosponsors (20)

2 Democrats18 Republicans