[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1517 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1517

To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for 
  coverage under that Act of employees of State and local governments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2007

Mr. Andrews (for himself, Mr. George Miller of California, Ms. Woolsey, 
 Mr. Bishop of New York, Mr. Payne, Mr. Hare, Ms. Shea-Porter, and Ms. 
  Corrine Brown of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for 
  coverage under that Act of employees of State and local governments.

    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 ``Fairness for State and Local Workers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYEES.

    Section 3(5) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 652(5)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``including a State or political 
        subdivision of a State,'' after ``employees,''; and
            (2) by striking ``or any State or political subdivision of 
        a State''.
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