[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 668 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 668

   To provide enhanced criminal penalties for willful violations of 
                  occupational standards for asbestos.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 17, 2005

  Mr. Specter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide enhanced criminal penalties for willful violations of 
                  occupational standards for asbestos.

    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 ``Asbestos Standards Enforcement Act 
of 2005''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR WILLFUL VIOLATIONS OF 
              OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ASBESTOS.

    Section 17(e) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 656(e)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Any'' and inserting ``(1) Except as 
        provided in paragraph (2), any''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) Any employer who willfully violates any standard issued under 
section 6 with respect to the control of occupational exposure to 
asbestos, shall upon conviction be punished by a fine in accordance 
with section 3571 of title 18, United States Code, or by imprisonment 
for not more than 5 years, or both, except that if the conviction is 
for a violation committed after a first conviction of such person, 
punishment shall be by a fine in accordance with section 3571 of title 
18, United States Code, or by imprisonment for not more than 10 years, 
or both.''.
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