Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
This bill repeals the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and abolishes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It contains no implementing provisions, funding replacements, or transition details in the text provided.
Progressives emphasize worker-safety losses; conservatives emphasize deregulation benefits.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear and direct substantive legal change (repealing the Occupational Safety and Health Act and abolishing OSHA) but is sparsely constructed.
This bill repeals the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and abolishes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
It contains no implementing provisions, funding replacements, or transition details in the text provided.
The bill's immediate legal effect would be removal of the federal statutory basis and agency for workplace safety enforcement.
Sweeping, high-conflict elimination of a longstanding federal agency with no compromise features makes enactment unlikely based on historical patterns.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear and direct substantive legal change (repealing the Occupational Safety and Health Act and abolishing OSHA) but is sparsely constructed. It specifies the primary legal action but omits almost all customary accompanying provisions needed to implement such a systemic change.
Progressives emphasize worker-safety losses; conservatives emphasize deregulation benefits.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize worker-safety losses; conservatives emphasize deregulation benefits.
Likely strongly opposed.
Repealing OSHA removes a core federal protector of workplace health and safety, disproportionately harming low-wage and vulnerable workers.
The absence of transition or replacement provisions raises major public-health and enforcement concerns.
Mixed to somewhat opposed.
Acknowledges concerns about regulatory burdens and agency performance, but objects to outright abolition without clear replacements.
Favors reform or targeted improvements over wholesale repeal.
Likely supportive.
Views abolition as reducing federal overreach, lowering regulatory burdens, and restoring state/local control or private-sector solutions.
Sees opportunity for deregulation and business cost relief.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
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Sweeping, high-conflict elimination of a longstanding federal agency with no compromise features makes enactment unlikely based on historical patterns.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize worker-safety losses; conservatives emphasize deregulation benefits.
Sweeping, high-conflict elimination of a longstanding federal agency with no compromise features makes enactment unlikely based on historic…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear and direct substantive legal change (repealing the Occupational Safety and Health Act and abolishing OSHA) but is sparsely constructed. It specifies the pr…
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