To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for adjudicative flexibility with regard to the filing of a notice of contest by an employer following the issuance of a citation or proposed assessment of a penalty by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to provide for greater efficiency at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, to provide for judicial deference to conclusions of law determined by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission with respect to an order issued by the Commission, and to provide for the award of attorneys' fees and costs to small employers when such employers prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of a citation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
2005-07-13: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Occupational Safety and Health Independent Review of OSHA Citations Act of 2005
2005-07-12: Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 351, H.R. 741 is laid on the table.
Occupational Safety and Health Small Employer Access to Justice Act of 2005
2005-07-12: Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 351, H.R. 742 is laid on the table.
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Efficiency Act of 2005
2005-07-12: Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 351, H.R. 740 is laid on the table.
Interstate 3/3rd Infantry Division Highway Initiation Act of 2005
2005-01-26: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
14th/14 Amendment Interstate Highway Initiation Act of 2005
2005-01-07: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
Recognizing the need to pursue research into the causes, a treatment, and an eventual cure for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, supporting the goals and ideals of National Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Week, and for other purposes.
2005-09-30: Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Bipartisan Consensus Managed Care Improvement Act of 2007
2007-06-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Secret Ballot Protection Act
2007-05-18: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
CLEAR Act of 2007
2007-03-01: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Charlie W. Norwood Living Organ Donation Act
2007-12-21: Became Public Law No: 110-144.
To require the Secretary of Defense to take such actions as are necessary to change the reimbursement rates and cost sharing requirements under the TRICARE program to be the same as, or as similar as possible to, the reimbursement rates and cost sharing requirements under the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Standard Plan provided under the Federal Employee Health Benefit program under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code.
2004-09-28: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cancer Care Preservation Act of 2004
2004-10-08: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
For the relief of Thomas W. Sikes and Wellington Trade, Inc., doing business as Containerhouse.
2004-10-15: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Recognition of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in the Federal Workers' Compensation Act
2004-09-30: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2004
2004-09-30: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
For the relief of Thomas W. Sikes and Wellington Trade, Inc., doing business as Containerhouse.
2004-03-22: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Prescription Drug Abuse Elimination Act of 2004
2004-03-11: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Savannah River Lakes Private Land Ownership Restoration Act
2003-07-17: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Occupational Safety and Health Small Employer Access to Justice Act of 2004
2004-05-18: Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 645, H.R. 2731 is laid on the table.