[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1932 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1932

   To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to allow 
   employers a grace period to abate certain occupational health and 
  safety violations before being subject to a penalty under such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 2015

Mrs. Hartzler 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 allow 
   employers a grace period to abate certain occupational health and 
  safety violations before being subject to a penalty under such Act.

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

SECTION 1. GRACE PERIOD ON OSHA PENALTIES.

    (a) Citations.--Section 10(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health 
Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 659(a)) is amended by inserting after the first 
sentence the following: ``No such penalty may be assessed for a 
violation that is determined not to be willful, repeated, or serious as 
described in section 17(k), during the period of time fixed for 
abatement of the violation in the citation issued under section 9(a) or 
final order issued under this section, as the case may be, and no such 
penalty may be assessed for such a violation if such violation shall 
have been abated by the employer in accordance with such citation or 
final order before the end of such time period.''.
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