Protecting America’s Workers Act (OSHA Coverage & Enforcement Expansion)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-04-28 — Protecting America’s Workers Act: Bill text (HR3036, 119th Congress) introduced 2025-04-28 would extend OSH Act coverage to federal, state, and local government employees; strengthen whistleblower and victim family rights (notification, participation in inspections/settlements); raise maximum civil penalties and elevate willful violations causing death from misdemeanor to felony; and expand DOL/NIOSH enforcement authority and training obligations. (novelty: 3)