Title: Ensuring STEAKS Act of 2020
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Ensuring Safety Tools so that Employees are All Kept Secure Act of 2020 or the Ensuring STEAKS Act of 2020
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue regulations with respect to protection against COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) for workers in meat processing establishments. Through the end of the COVID-19 emergency period, USDA must review and update such regulations at least every 90 days to ensure worker safety.
Until such regulations are issued, the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to worker safety must be used as interim requirements for meat processing establishments.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7082 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7082

   To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations with 
    respect to the protection against COVID-19 for workers in meat 
           processing establishments, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 1, 2020

   Mr. Rush introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations with 
    respect to the protection against COVID-19 for workers in meat 
           processing establishments, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Ensuring Safety Tools so that 
Employees are All Kept Secure Act of 2020'' or the ``Ensuring STEAKS 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REGULATIONS FOR PROTECTION OF WORKERS IN MEAT PROCESSING 
              ESTABLISHMENTS FROM COVID-19.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in this 
section referred to as the ``Director'') and the Assistant Secretary of 
Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, shall--
            (1) not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
        of this Act, issue regulations with respect to protection 
        against COVID-19 for workers in establishments inspected under 
        the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.); and
            (2) through the end of the emergency period (as defined in 
        section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act (21 U.S.C. 
        1320b-5(g)(1)(B))), review and update as necessary such 
        regulations no less frequently than every 90 days to ensure 
        such regulations are sufficient to ensure worker safety.
    (b) Interim Requirements.--Until the regulations are issued under 
subsection (a)(1), the recommendations published by the Director on the 
website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect 
to worker safety are deemed to be interim requirements for 
establishments referred to in such subsection.
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