[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6019 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6019

To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 
Act of 2000 to grant Special Exposure Cohort designation to a specific 
   group of individuals from a Department of Energy facility in Los 
                          Alamos, New Mexico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2008

   Mr. Udall of New Mexico introduced the following bill; which was 
  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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 
Act of 2000 to grant Special Exposure Cohort designation to a specific 
   group of individuals from a Department of Energy facility in Los 
                          Alamos, New Mexico.

    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 ``Ray Ruiz Special Exposure Cohort 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN LOS ALAMOS EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 3621(14) of the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 
7384l(14)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(D) The employee was so employed by the 
                Department of Energy or a Department of Energy 
                contractor or subcontractor for a number of work days 
                aggregating at least 250 work days at the Los Alamos 
                site in New Mexico.''.
    (b) Authority To Reapply.--A claim that an individual qualifies, by 
reason of section 3621(14)(D) of the Energy Employees Occupational 
Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, as added by subsection (a), 
for compensation or benefits under such Act shall be considered for 
compensation or benefits notwithstanding any denial of any other claim 
for compensation with respect to such individual.
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