Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act
Latest action · Sep 24, 2008 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1077.
Progress
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- IntroducedSep 24, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), when using in decisionmaking any value of statistical life, including the life of pregnant women, infants, children, and the elderly, to: (1) not reduce that value below the highest value of statistical life used in a decisionmaking before the enactment of this Act; and (2) increase that value at least once each year, by adjusting the value to reflect the average annual total compensation of individuals, the average capital that may be liquidated upon the death of an individual, and the value of nonpaid activities, including the relevant activities described in the American Time Survey Results published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
Prohibits the Administrator from decreasing the value of statistical life based on age, income, race, illness, disability, date of death, or any other personal attribute or relativistic analysis of the value of life.
Requires the Administrator to: (1) ensure that the process for establishing a value of statistical life is open to the public; and (2) provide to specified congressional committees, concurrently with public notice, any proposed revision of a value of a statistical life.
Declares that nothing in this Act: (1) expresses on behalf of Congress an endorsement of any use of value of statistical life analysis as a decisionmaking criterion, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory decisionmaking threshold, or single process of agency decisionmaking; (2) creates a duty to make or revise any standard under any other law; or (3) affects any substantive standard for promulgating regulations under any other law.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2008Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-499. Minority views filed.
- Sep 24, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Sep 24, 2008Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1077.
- Sep 17, 2008Committee on Environment and Public Works ordered to be reported an original measure.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 3494 | Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act | Related bill | Sep 16, 2008 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Decision making
- Economics and Public Finance
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Families
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Health
- Income
- Infants
- Labor statistics
- Law
- Pollution
- Pregnant women
- Risk
- Social Welfare
- Valuation
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2008Placed on Calendar Senate
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