Beryllium Testing Fairness Act

Bill: 117-s-4928
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2022-09-22
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-22
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Beryllium Testing Fairness Act</strong></p> <p>This bill expands eligibility for a compensation program for individuals who developed a beryllium-related illness or sensitivity and who were exposed to beryllium while working at certain Department of Energy facilities or for beryllium vendors. (Beryllium is a metal with various industrial applications, including in the production of nuclear weapons; inhalation of beryllium dust or fumes can have adverse health effects.)</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4928 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 22, 2022 Mrs. Murray introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to expand the ways beryllium sensitivity can be established for purposes of compensation under that Act and to extend the authorization of the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health of the Department of Labor, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Beryllium Testing Fairness Act . 2. Amendments to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (a) Modification of demonstration of beryllium sensitivity Section 3621(8)(A) of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 ( 42 U.S.C. 7384l(8)(A) ) is amended— (1) by striking established by an abnormal and inserting the following: established by— (i) an abnormal ; (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (ii) three borderline beryllium lymphocyte proliferation tests performed on blood cells. . (b) Extension of Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health Section 3687(j) of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 ( 42 U.S.C. 7385s–16(j) ) is amended by striking 10 years and inserting 15 years .