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S 2098 109th Congress Senate Labor and Employment Armed Forces and National Security Department of Energy Federal employees Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Islands Marshall Islands Micronesia Nuclear weapons Pacific area Subcontractors Workers' compensation

A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to clarify the eligibility of certain employees of the Department of Energy under that Act.

Introduced: December 14, 2005 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Dec 14, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Dec 14, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13573-13574)
Dec 14, 2005
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include in the Special Exposure Cohort for compensation purposes any employee of the Department of Energy (DOE), or DOE contractor or subcontractor, before 1986 on Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap, or Utrik Atolls who was exposed to ionizing radiation in the performance of duty, and was also a citizen of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

What's happening now December 14, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2098: A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to clarify the eligibility of certain employees of the Department of Energy under that Act.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2098/
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"S. 2098: A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to clarify the eligibility of certain employees of the Department of Energy under that Act.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2098/.
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S. 2098, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2098/.
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[S. 2098: A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to clarify the eligibility of certain employees of the Department of Energy under that Act.](https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2098/)
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