To provide an additional authorization of appropriations for the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants to be used specifically to fund programs that provide hands-on mine safety skills training and certification in mine rescue and mine emergency response.

Bill: 113-hr-4606
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2014-05-08
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: First responders and emergency personnel

Mining

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-05-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 to authorize appropriations for FY2015 specifically for Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants for programs to provide hands-on mine safety skills training and certification in mine rescue and mine emergency response.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4606 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 8, 2014 Mr. McKinley (for himself, Mr. Rahall , and Mrs. Capito ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To provide an additional authorization of appropriations for the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants to be used specifically to fund programs that provide hands-on mine safety skills training and certification in mine rescue and mine emergency response.

1. Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants Section 14(g) of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 ( 30 U.S.C. 965(g) ) is amended— (1) by striking There are and inserting (1) In general .—There are ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (2) Specific programs authorization In addition to amounts authorized under paragraph (1), there is authorized to be appropriated $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2015 specifically for grants providing hands-on mine safety skills training and certification in mine rescue and mine emergency response. .