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Heat Workforce Standards Act of 2026
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.
Summary
This bill prohibits the Secretary of Labor from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration standard on heat injury and illness prevention in indoor and outdoor work settings that was published in the Federal Register on August 30, 2024. The bill includes congressional findings characterizing the proposed standard as overly prescriptive and burdensome to businesses, citing specific provisions such as high-heat temperature triggers, mandatory rest break protocols, acclimatization requirements, and detailed written safety plan requirements. According to the bill, applying such a standard uniformly across all industries and geographic regions without accounting for regional differences creates confusion and impairs worker safety. The prohibition extends to any substantially similar heat-related workplace safety standard that the Department of Labor might attempt to implement.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA)
11 cosponsors
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN)
- Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] (R-NC)
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (R-TX)
- Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] (R-ID)
- Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (R-MT)
- Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA)
- Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] (R-OK)
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID)
- Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT)
- Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] (R-NC)
- Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] (R-AL)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Bill Cassidy’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $59,100
- GENERAL ATLANTIC $37,700
- WELSH CARSON ANDERSON & STOWE $33,870
- OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM $33,250
- RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT $30,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Bill Cassidy → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Apr 29, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Apr 29, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.
Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 29, 2026
Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Budd, Mr. Daines, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Heat Workforce Standards Act of 2026”.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that—
(1) the proposed standard titled “Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings” published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the Federal Register on August 30, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 70698) is overly prescriptive, burdensome to businesses, and confusing for workers;
(2) utilizing prescriptive requirements on employers to effectuate the aims of this proposed standard, including high- heat triggers, stringent protocols around rest breaks, strict acclimatization protocols, and highly detailed written safety plans, make the proposed standard unworkable; and
(3) creating a proposed standard to regulate indoor heat and outdoor heat with prescriptive and specific requirements, which covers all industries and geographies without regard for unique considerations, will cause confusion and undermine worker safety.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST FINALIZING, IMPLEMENTING, OR ENFORCING A PROPOSED STANDARD WITH RESPECT TO HEAT INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION.
The Secretary of Labor may not finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed standard titled “Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings” published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the Federal Register on August 30, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 70698), or any substantially similar standard. <all>
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