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

5/9/2007--Introduced.

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 employee, Department of Energy 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.
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  • 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
  • 06/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
  • 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
  • 05/09/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
  • 05/09/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor
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H.R.2243 Introduced in House08/31/2007