HB1980
Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention.
Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard industries, as defined in the bill. The bill authorizes a person aggrieved by a violation of its provisions or the regulations promulgated thereunder to ... (More) seek to obtain injunctive relief, to recover statutory damages of $1000, or both, in an action commenced within one year of the cause of action. The bill requires the Safety and Health Codes Board, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop a list of high-hazard industries by January 1, 2026, and to develop and adopt regulations requiring employers in high-hazard industries to implement standards for heat illness prevention by May 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25102494D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/14/2025 - House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/22/2025 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 01/23/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 2-N)
- 01/24/2025 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 01/28/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (12-Y 10-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - House: Labor and Commerce Amendments agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/31/2025 - House: Printed as engrossed 25102494D-E
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/03/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107055D-S1
- 02/13/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N)
