Protecting America’s Workers Act
U.S. Congress · HR3036 ·
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What the bill says
Introduced 2025-04-28. Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Summary (plain-language)
Protecting America's Workers Act This bill expands the coverage of requirements governing workplace safety and health to include protection for federal, state, and local government employees. However, the bill does not cover working conditions otherwise covered by federal requirements for mine safety and health. The bill revises requirements governing worker protection, including by expanding protections for whistle-blowers, such as protections for employees who refuse to perform work because they reasonably believe the work would result in serious injury or illness and for employees who aid inspections; directing employers to furnish a hazard-free place of employment to all individuals performing work, not just employees; directing employers to report work-related deaths or certain injuries, illnesses, or hospitalizations; establishing rights for victims, or representatives of victims, with respect to inspections or investigations of work-related bodily injuries or deaths; and setting the permitted period for employers to correct serious, willful, or repeated violations while citations for the violations are being contested. The bill also revises enforcement and oversight of workplace safety, including by increasing civil and criminal penalties for certain violations, requiring the Department of Labor to investigate fatalities or significant incidents in the workplace, expanding enforcement requirements relating to state occupational safety and health plans, expanding requirements for workplace health hazard evaluations by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and requiring Labor to provide training programs concerning employee rights and employer responsibilities.
Sponsors
- Joe Courtney (primary)
- Suzanne Bonamici
- Joyce Beatty
- Shontel M. Brown
- Nikki Budzinski
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Judy Chu
- Greg Casar
- Christopher R. Deluzio
- Debbie Dingell
- Cleo Fields
- Daniel S. Goldman
- Jonathan L. Jackson
- Timothy M. Kennedy
- Betty McCollum
- Morgan McGarvey
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Donald Norcross
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Ilhan Omar
- Mark Pocan
- Delia C. Ramirez
- Robert C. "Bobby" Scott
- Brad Sherman
- Thomas R. Suozzi
- Mary Gay Scanlon
- Eric Sorensen
- Mark Takano
- Shri Thanedar
- Maxine Waters
Text versions
- Introduced in House — 2025-04-28 — XML
What analysts say
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Action History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-04-28 | Introduced in House |
| 2025-04-28 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. |
Lobbying on this bill
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Honesty note: each filer below disclosed lobbying on this bill — that much the filing tells us. But the dollar figure is their total lobbying spend for the whole quarter across all their issues, not the amount spent on this bill, and the filing never says whether they supported or opposed it.
| Registrant (lobbying firm) | Client | Period | Reported quarterly amount | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE & AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS | UNITED AUTOMOBILE AEROSPACE & AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS | Q2 2026 | $230,000 | |
| ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA | ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA | Q2 2026 | $216,377 | |
| AFL-CIO | AFL-CIO | Q2 2026 | $760,000 | |
| ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA | ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA | Q1 2026 | $195,922 |
Source: Senate LDA filings.