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.

Bill: 114-hr-1932
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2015-04-22
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to prohibit the assessment of penalties against employers for non-willful, unrepeated, or non-serious violations of occupational safety and health standards during the time period fixed for abatement of such a violation in any citation or final order. Furthermore, no penalty shall be assessed for a violation if it shall be abated by the employer in accordance with the citation or order before the end of that period.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1932 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 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.

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. .