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Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act

Introduced: February 26, 2004 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 2, 2004
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Mar 15, 2004
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Feb 26, 2004
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.
Feb 26, 2004
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E258-259)
Feb 26, 2004
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to cover individual employees: (1) at an atomic weapons employer facility with respect to which the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found a potential for residual contamination outside of the period in which weapons-related production occurred; and (2) during a period of significant residual contamination at such facility.

Instructs the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to submit to Congress updated reports regarding residual contamination in such facilities and the employees working in them while their employers were under Federal contract to process nuclear weapons materials.

What's happening now April 2, 2004

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

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 Bill text 1 version

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 Cosponsors 1
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Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Mar 31, 2004
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3864: Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-3864/
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"H.R. 3864: Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-3864/.
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H.R. 3864, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-3864/.
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