US Congress House Bill 436 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 21 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Clarification Act of 2015 Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to define "recreational vessel" as a vessel: being manufactured or operated primarily for pleasure; or leased, rented, or chartered to another for the latter's pleasure. Prescribes the following rules in applying the definition: a vessel being manufactured or built, or being repaired under warranty by its manufacturer or builder, is a recreational vessel if the vessel appears intended, based on its design and construction, to be for ultimate recreational uses. Requires the manufacturer or builder to bear the burden of establishing that a vessel is recreational under this standard; a vessel being repaired, dismantled for repair, or dismantled at the end of its life will be treated as recreational at the time of repair, dismantling for repair, or dismantling, provided that such vessel shares elements of design and construction of traditional recreational vessels and is not normally engaged in a military, commercial or traditionally commercial undertaking; and a vessel will be treated as a recreational vessel if it is a public vessel, such as a vessel owned or chartered and operated by the United States, or by a state or local government, at the time of repair, dismantling for repair, or dismantling, provided that such vessel shares elements of design and construction with traditional recreational vessels and is not normally engaged in a military, commercial, or traditionally commercial undertaking. Requires the Secretary of Labor to revise a certain federal regulation to replace its definition of "recreational vessel" with the definition specified in this Act.

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Clarification Act of 2015

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]
Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA]	Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R-FL]	Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]
Rep. Glenn Grothman [R-WI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
2015-01-21	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
2015-01-21	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/436/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr436/BILLS-114hr436ih.pdf