Ensuring STEAKS Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7082
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2020-06-01
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Department of Agriculture

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Food industry and services

Health promotion and preventive care

Industrial facilities

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Meat

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Ensuring Safety Tools so that Employees are All Kept Secure Act of 2020 or the</b> <b>Ensuring STEAKS Act of 2020</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7082 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 1, 2020 Mr. Rush introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 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.

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 . 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.