Senate bill bars OSHA heat safety rule from taking effect
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Sponsor: Bill Cassidy · Senator · LA
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Official title: A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed standard with respect to heat injury and illness prevention, and for other purposes.
119th Congress
Topics: Jobs & the economy
Introduced:
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This bill would permanently stop the federal government from ever finishing or enforcing the 2024 OSHA heat safety rule for workplaces.
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What does this do?
This bill would stop the Department of Labor from completing, enforcing, or even issuing a similar version of a heat safety rule that OSHA proposed in 2024. That rule had called for rest breaks in high heat, plans to help workers adjust to heat over time, and written heat safety plans from employers. The bill would block that rule and any future rule that looks substantially like it.
Who does it affect?
Every employer that OSHA oversees, across all industries, would be affected because no new federal heat safety standard based on that 2024 proposal could be created or enforced. Workers in high-heat jobs such as construction, agriculture, manufacturing, and warehousing would also be directly affected.
Why does it matter?
Without this rule going into effect, the federal protections it was designed to provide against heat-related injuries and illnesses would not exist. Workers in those jobs would not gain the specific safeguards the 2024 proposal had outlined.
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Where does it stand?
- IntroducedApr 29, 2026
- Senate committeeYou are here · Apr 29, 2026
- Senate vote
- House
- The president's desk
Right now: a Senate committee is reviewing it. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the president.
Latest action: — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.