A bill to provide Federal financial assistance to employers, labor organizations, or consortiums thereof, or other groups or individuals, to establish and operate occupational alcoholism programs for the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in employed persons, including managerial personnel, and their dependents, and for other purposes.
Occupational Alcoholism Prevention and Treatment Act of 1979 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, acting through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, to make grants to employers, labor organizations, consortiums of employers or labor organizations, and to public or private nonprofit agencies and organizations to pay no more than 50 percent of the cost of establishing and operating occupational alcoholism programs.
Authorizes an appropriation not to exceed 2.5 percent of Federal taxes collected on alcohol to finance such programs.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
checking server…
Ask anything about this bill. The AI reads the full text to answer.
Enter to send · Shift+Enter for new line