3.0.0 6766 2023-01-11T13:15:49Z 2023-01-11T13:15:49Z House H HR 2008-07-31 110 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2008-07-31T14:03:45Z hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing Referred to 2008-07-31T14:03:40Z Compensation and Respect for Energy Workers Act of 2008 110 3329 S 2008-07-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2008-08-01 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1657-1658) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-31 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2008-07-31 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-31 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2008-07-31 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-31 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress U000038 Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2] MARK UDALL D CO 2 N P000593 Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7] Ed Perlmutter D CO 7 2008-07-31 True Labor and Employment Administrative procedure Armed Forces and National Security Brain Cancer Chemicals Claims Colon cancer Compensation (Law) Data banks Department of Energy Department of Labor Digestive diseases Disability evaluation Disabled Environmental Protection Estates (Law) Eye diseases Families Federal installations Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Government paperwork Government publicity Health Kidney diseases Law Leukemia Limitation of actions Lung cancer Medical screening Nervous system diseases Nuclear weapons Occupational health and safety Ombudsman Physical examinations Physicians Prostate cancer Public records Radiation victims Science, Technology, Communications Skin cancer Survivors' benefits Thyroid diseases Transportation and Public Works Travel costs Labor and Employment 00 2008-07-31 Introduced in House 2008-11-20T19:27:40Z Compensation and Respect for Energy Workers Act of 2008 or the CARE Act - Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to expand the diseases for which individuals who were exposed to radiation from nuclear testing may claim compensation to include chronic lymphocytic leukemia, posterior subcapsular cataracts, nonmalignant thyroid nodular disease, parathyroid adenoma, malignant tumors of the brain and central nervous system, and brochio-alveolar carcinoma, and benign neoplasms of the brain and central nervous system.

Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to: (1) provide to potential claimants of compensation a list of physicians qualified to perform medical and impairment screenings and a written notice of benefits for which they may be eligible under such Act; (2) require exposure assessments of contaminated sites to identify by trade name (if any) any chemical commonly used in such sites; (3) require the Secretary of Labor to provide the public with site profiles and other information used to evaluate claims for compensation; (4) require payment of compensation to a claimant's estate if such claimant dies after filing a claim but before any compensation is paid and leaves no survivors; (5) expand the duties of the Office of the Ombudsman in the Department of Labor to include providing benefit information to claimants and contracting for expert services; (6) extend to one year the limitation period for filing a petition for review in federal district court of any denial of a compensation claim; and (7) include within the definition of "member of the Special Exposure Cohort" certain Department of Energy (DOE) employees or contractors at the Rocky Flats site in Colorado. Allows claimants under the Act 120 days to respond to a request for information from the Secretary.

Requires the promulgation of regulations for: (1) the direct payment to providers of personal care services and transportation expenses for claimants who receive medical benefits under the Act; (2) providing clear, concise, and easily understandable explanations of the claims process, including denials of claims; and (3) the retention of records in the Departments of Energy and Labor that might be used by claimants in the claims process.

]]> CARE Act Display Title CARE Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to expand the category of individuals eligible for compensation, to improve the procedures for providing compensation, and to improve transparency, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced CARE Act Short Titles as Introduced Compensation and Respect for Energy Workers Act of 2008 Introduced in House 2008-07-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr6766ih/xml/BILLS-110hr6766ih.xml 2008-08-01 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1657-1658) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.