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To require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to recognize that electronic forms of providing Material Safety Data Sheets provide the same level of access to information as paper copies and to improve the presentation of safety and emergency information on such Data Sheets.

Introduced: June 11, 1998 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 13 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 31, 1998
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Aug 4, 1998
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Aug 4, 1998
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Aug 4, 1998
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Aug 4, 1998
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Aug 4, 1998
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7008-7011)
Aug 4, 1998
Mr. Ballenger moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Jul 29, 1998
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Discharged.
Jul 29, 1998
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Jul 29, 1998
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jun 26, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Jun 11, 1998
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jun 11, 1998
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to direct the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations to: (1) provide that an employer complies with a specified standard if the employer makes information on each hazardous chemical used in the workplace readily accessible (available for retrieval immediately in the case of an emergency) to employees through electronic access or other alternatives to paper copies of Material Standard Data Sheets MSDSs; and (2) require a standard format for MSDSs, including an emergency overview which warns of health and physical hazards that require immediate attention in an emergency.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) study the comprehensibility of specified OSHA required hazard warnings to the average industrial worker; and (2) make the resulting report available to chemical manufacturers and importers required to prepare MSDSs.

What's happening now August 31, 1998

Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

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