[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 741 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 741

To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for 
judicial deference to conclusions of law determined by the Occupational 
Safety and Health Review Commission with respect to an order issued by 
                            the Commission.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 2005

 Mr. Norwood (for himself, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
   McKeon, Mr. Ehlers, Mrs. Biggert, Mr. Keller, Mr. Wilson of South 
   Carolina, Mr. Kline, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Neugebauer) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for 
judicial deference to conclusions of law determined by the Occupational 
Safety and Health Review Commission with respect to an order issued by 
                            the Commission.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Occupational Safety and Health 
Independent Review of OSHA Citations Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. JUDICIAL DEFERENCE.

    Section 11(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 660(a)) is amended in the sixth sentence by inserting before the 
period the following: ``, and with respect to such record, the 
conclusions of the Commission with respect to questions of law that are 
subject to agency deference under governing court precedent shall be 
given deference if reasonable''.
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