To better provide for compensation for certain persons injured in the course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.

Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include within the meaning of the term “member of the Special Exposure Cohort” a Department of Energy (DOE) employee, DOE contractor employee, or atomic weapons employee who was so employed for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days before January 1, 2006, at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.

Provides that a claim that an individual qualifies for compensation or benefits under such Act shall be considered notwithstanding any denial of any other claim for compensation with respect to such individual.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 203 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 203

 To better provide for compensation for certain persons injured in the 
     course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in 
                              California.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 2011

 Mr. Gallegly introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To better provide for compensation for certain persons injured in the 
     course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in 
                              California.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF MEMBER OF SPECIAL EXPOSURE COHORT.

    (a) In General.--Section 3621(14) of the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 
7384l(14)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(D) The employee was so employed for a number of 
                work days aggregating at least 250 work days before 
                January 1, 2006, by the Department of Energy or a 
                Department of Energy contractor or subcontractor at the 
                Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.''.
    (b) Reapplication.--A claim that an individual qualifies, by reason 
of section 3621(14)(D) of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness 
Compensation Program Act of 2000 (as added by subsection (a) of this 
Act), for compensation or benefits under such Act shall be considered 
for compensation or benefits notwithstanding any denial of any other 
claim for compensation with respect to such individual.
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