Employees Comprehensive Respiratory Disease Compensation and Registration Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Employees Comprehensive Respiratory Disease Compensation and Registration Act - Title I: General Provisions - States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide assistance, in cooperation with the States, to workers who are totally disabled due to a respiratory disease (other than pneumoconiosis contracted as a result of employment in one or more coal mines) arising out of their employment in a health-hazard industry (other than coal mine) and to the surviving dependents of workers whose death was due to such disease or who were totally disabled by such disease at the time of their deaths, and to provide for a comprehensive compilation of information about persons exposed to the risks of disease from employment in a health-hazard industry so that such persons might take advantage of preventive medical assistance. Title II: Claims for Benefits Filed on or Before December 31, 1976 - Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall make payments of benefits for the total disability of any worker due to a respiratory disease arising out of his employment in a health-hazard industry, and for the death of any worker whose death was due to such disease or who at the t…