Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 15 — Occupational Safety and Health
§ 669a. Expanded research on worker health and safety
Statutory text
The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”), acting through the Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, shall enhance and expand research as deemed appropriate on the health and safety of workers who are at risk for bioterrorist threats or attacks in the workplace, including research on the health effects of measures taken to treat or protect such workers for diseases or disorders resulting from a bioterrorist threat or attack. Nothing in this section may be construed as establishing new regulatory authority for the Secretary or the Director to issue or modify any occupational safety and health rule or regulation.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002”
Pub. L. 107–188 title I § 153 · 116 Stat. 594
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 669a
(Pub. L. 107–188, title I, § 153, June 12, 2002, 116 Stat. 631.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–188, title I, § 153, June 12, 2002, 116 Stat. 631.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 153. EXPANDED RESEARCH ON WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”), acting through the Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, shall enhance and expand research as deemed appropriate on the health and safety of workers who are at risk for bioterrorist threats or attacks in the workplace, including research on the health effects of measures taken to treat or protect such workers for diseases or disorders resulting from a bioterrorist threat or attack. Nothing in this section may be construed as establishing new regulatory authority for the Secretary or the Director to issue or modify any occupational safety and health rule or regulation.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, and not as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 which comprises this chapter.