[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5785 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5785

To direct the Mine Safety and Health Administration to provide to mine 
 operators for distribution to miners wallet cards and similar devices 
  containing the phone number of the Administration's national hazard 
                        reporting phone number.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2010

 Ms. Shea-Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Mine Safety and Health Administration to provide to mine 
 operators for distribution to miners wallet cards and similar devices 
  containing the phone number of the Administration's national hazard 
                        reporting phone number.

    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 ``Mine Worker Safety Hotline 
Accessibility Act''.

SEC. 2. DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL HAZARD REPORTING HOTLINE PHONE NUMBER.

    Title I of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (30 
U.S.C. 811 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 117. NATIONAL HAZARD REPORTING HOTLINE.

    ``The Secretary shall provide to all operators plastic wallet 
cards, refrigerator magnets, and other similar devices, containing the 
toll-free telephone number and appropriate Internet website address of 
the national hazard reporting hotline established by the Secretary. 
Each operator shall ensure that each miner employed at each mine of the 
operator receives such cards, magnets, or other devices and shall make 
available such cards, magnets, or other devices to all miner 
communities in order to facilitate the reporting mine accidents, 
incidents, injuries, illnesses, possible violations of this Act or of 
mandatory health or safety standards or plans, or other mine safety and 
health concerns.''.
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