Rep. Gaydos, Joseph M. [D-PA-20]

An amendment to provide an exemption from notification requirements for companies that show, by a preponderance of evidence, that they have operated exceptionally effective health and safety programs.

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An amendment to specify that employers would not be required to duplicate medical monitoring already required by a substance-specific health and safety standard.

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An amendment consisting of a substitute text for the introduced resolution.

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An amendment making technical changes.

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An amendment to prohibit employee requests for medical removal benefits without physiological evidence that the covered disease was about to manifest itself.

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An amendment to provide protection for physicians against medical malpractice suits when they make good faith determinations with regard to the removal of employees for medical reasons.

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An amendment to establish one or more Demonstration Centers for Retraining of Dislocated Workers. A demonstration center is to arrange for programs that a) lead to employment in suitable jobs, b) generate a skilled workforce for emerging technologies and service industries, c) overcome basic educational disabilities, and d) utilize the full range of existing educational institutions. The amendment authorizes such sums as are necessary to carry out the program.

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See House Administration amendment (A001) for description.

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An amendment to permit the Risk Assessment Board to waive notification for persons whose exposure, based on the latency period, would have already resulted in the specific disease.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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An amendment to provide that no action may be brought for any claim based on a food faith determination made by a physician.

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John Heinz Neighborhood Development Program Amendments Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992

John Heinz Neighorhood Development Program Amendments Act - Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to redesignate the Neighborhood Development Demonstration as the John Heinz Neighborhood Development Program. Provides for increased Program coordination between community funding organizations and local development organizations.

Designating the week beginning October 18, 1992, as "National Radon Action Week".

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1992

Designates the week beginning October 18, 1992, as National Radon Action Week.

Designating the week beginning November 8, 1992, as "Hire a Veteran Week".

United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992

Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as Hire a Veteran Week.

Designating October 1992 as "Polish-American Heritage Month".

United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1992

Designates October 1992 as Polish-American Heritage Month.

Supporting the planting of 500 redwood trees from California in Spain in commemoration of the quincentenary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus and designating the trees as a gift to the people of Spain.

United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1992

Supports the planting of 500 redwood trees from California on the northwest coast of Spain in commemoration of the quincentenary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. Designates such trees as a gift to the people of Spain made in the name of the people of the United States.

Designating October 8, 1992, as "National Firefighters Day".

United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992

Designates October 8, 1992, as National Firefighters Day.

To express the sense of the Congress that the United States Trade Representative must negotiate a tough but fair multilateral trade agreement regarding steel products.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1992

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States Trade Representative must negotiate a multilateral trade agreement that: (1) provides the U.S. steel industry with a level of protection equal to that enforced under the Steel Import Stabilization Act; and (2) does not include provisions that would weaken U.S. antidumping or countervailing duty laws. Urges the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to process expeditiously, while ensuring enforcement of relevant statutes and regulations, any petitions filed by domestic producers regarding unfair steel trade practices.

Designating February 21, 1993, through February 27, 1993, as "American Wine Appreciation Week", and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992

Designates February 21 through 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.

Industrial Revitalization Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992

Industrial Revitalization Act of 1992 - Title I: Domestic Loan Guarantee Fund for the Revitalization of American Industry - Creates an Economic Transition Assistance Board. Authorizes the Board to guarantee principal and interest on loans and, in certain circumstances, provide interest subsidies for the loans, giving priority to aerospace manufacturing loans. Sets forth assistance conditions, including that the applicant be: (1) affected by U.S. defense budget reductions or by assistance by foreign governments to foreign competitors; and (2) engaged in work critical to national security or economic security. Requires full collateralization. Prohibits, during the loan and without Board approval, certain borrower actions, including: (1) declaring an extraordinary dividend; (2) making payment on certain other indebtedness; or (3) shifting any significant part of its manufacturing activities outside the United States. Limits the aggregate amount of obligations of the Board and the maximum obligations to any single enterprise. Establishes in the Treasury an emergency loan guarantee fund to be administered by the Board to pay Board expenses and to fulfill the Board's obligations under this title. Authorizes the Board, if amounts in the fund are insufficient, to issue obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires any Federal Reserve bank which is requested to do so to act as fiscal agent for the Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Commercial Aircraft Agreement - Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to report on the operation of the Agreement Concerning the Application of the GATT Agreement in Civil Aircraft, including on: (1) subsidies to the aerospace industry by European Community nations; (2) any Agreement benefits to the U.S. aerospace industry; and (3) subsidies by the European Space Agency to Arianespace in commercial launch services. Title III: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technology Development - Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to: (1) modify procedures for the development, acquisition, and dissemination of technical aeronautics and space information; and (2) conduct technology projects with U.S. industry partners under agreements providing at least partially exclusive rights to participating companies. Title IV: Export-Import Bank Provisions - Requires the Export-Import Bank of the United States to report on: (1) the competitiveness of the bank's export finance services to the domestic commercial aerospace industry as compared to the services offered by foreign governments that finance the export of commercial aircraft; and (2) how the bank can more effectively assist U.S. commercial aircraft manufacturers to sell in the world market. Title V: Skills Conversion - Establishes the Skills Conversion Program to reeducate, retrain, and reorient scientific and technical personnel displaced or threatened with displacement by defense budget reductions to fill positions in existing or emerging industries. Authorizes grants for: (1) retraining services; and (2) assistance to employees during retraining. Mandates a fellowship, not to exceed a specified amount, for an employee while participating in the program.

Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992

Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to allow as grounds for nonrenewal of a franchise relationship the failure of the parties to agree to changes to the franchise provisions as long as such failure is not the result of the franchisor's insistence for the purpose of converting a franchisee operation into one operated by the franchisor's employees or agents (that is, turning the franchise into a company-owned station). Prohibits a State or any political subdivision from implementing any law or regulation which requires payment for a franchisee's goodwill upon either termination or nonrenewal of a franchise. Permits State law to specify the terms and conditions under which a franchise or franchise relationship may be transferred to a franchisee's designated successor upon the franchisee's death. Requires a franchisor that does not wish to exercise its underlying lease options to lease or purchase the marketing premises, to offer to assign them to the franchisee as a prerequisite to termination or nonrenewal of the franchise relationship. Bars a franchisor from requiring, as a condition of the franchise relationship, that the franchisee waive or release its rights under Federal or State law. Declares invalid and unenforceable any franchise provision which specifies that franchise interpretation or enforcement shall be governed by the law of any State other than the one in which the franchisee has its principal place of business.

Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for continuing expenses of investigations and studies by the standing and select committees of the House from May 1, 1992, through May 31, 1992.

United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992

Makes available from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives amounts necessary for continued investigations and studies by each standing and select committee of the House in the second session of the 102d Congress from May 1 through May 31, 1992.

Postal Employees Safety and Health Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1992

Postal Employees Safety and Health Act - Makes various provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA), including civil and criminal penalty provisions, applicable to the U.S. Postal Service. Directs the Postmaster General to issue standards on ergonomic hazards to protect Postal Service employees from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Requires the Postal Service to: (1) ensure that, in order to protect the hearing impaired from smoke or fire hazards, warning devices are present in all appropriate postal facilities; (2) prescribe regulations which ensure at least the minimum level of safety provided by the then current national consensus standards under OSHA dealing with smoke and fire warning devices for the hearing impaired and which include criteria for identifying which types of postal facilities shall be subject to particular requirements with respect to such warning devices; and (3) report to specified congressional committees. Authorizes a joint labor-management postal safety committee (committee) to enter into contracts with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to identify any ergonomic or other safety or health hazards which might be associated with any major new mechanization, equipment, or technology (change) being, or proposed to be, implemented by the Postal Service. Requires the Postal Service, to the extent practicable, before awarding any contract for the acquisition, installation, or implementation of any such change, to notify the committee of its intentions, so that the committee may review the design plans for such change and submit written comments relating to any safety or health hazards which might result. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Postal Service should not discharge or in any manner discriminate against an employee for refusing to perform duties if the employee: (1) believes that performing such duties would result in serious injury, where a reasonable person in those circumstances would draw the same conclusion; and (2) has previously sought to have the Postal Service correct the conditions involved.

Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for continuing expenses of investigations and studies by the standing and select committees of the House from April 1, 1992, through April 30, 1992.

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1992

Makes available from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives amounts necessary for continued investigations and studies by each standing and select committee of the House in the second session of the 102d Congress between March 31, 1992, and April 30, 1992.