The Senate Bill (SB) 20, The Law for Silicose Training, Outreach and Prevention (Stop), which was introduced by Senator Caroline Menjivar last year, was placed in the “voltage file” committee for mean values of the Senate in order to threaten its farewell.
The law is an attempt to protect stone manufacturing workers from silicosis, a terminal but avoidable, professional lung disease. Workers who produce artificial stone slabs is to inhale crystalline silica dust who can scars the lungs and they cannot breathe. Without healing, only preventive measures and finally a lung transplant can help treat the fatal disease.
The California Ministry of Public Health (CDPH) has confirmed 294 cases of silicosis, 30 lung transplants and 15 deaths in the state, whereby the northeastern San Fernando Valley is “ground zero”.
The stop act suggests that CDPh is required: to arrange a training program for best practice in connection with manufacturing activities; Develop a certification process for factory shops; Exhibition of three-year certificates of manufacturing transactions that meet the CDPH requirements; and create and maintain a public database and tracking system, which shows which fabrication shops correspond to the security standards for security and health administrations (California Occupational Health Administration) and their certification status.
Congressman Luz Rivas previously tried a similar invoice when he worked in the California meeting. She pulled the bill when it was clear that there would be no support to pass them in time because the administrators had a setback.
After Rivas, Menjivar said her team would work hard to ensure SB 20's success.
“It won't die this time,” said Menjivar. “And we will persist.”
However, the legislation can now be threatened after it has been placed in the voltage file. Any bill, the tax costs of which is over $ 50,000 in the Senate, is referred to the voltage file of the Senate Committee of the Senate Committee. Although it is an open secret that the voltage files die hundreds of invoices every year. The fate of these bills will be announced during a single hearing
“SB 20 in the voltage file of the Senate in the appropriation committee of the Senate was only processed San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol. “There will be a tension hearing in May, and in the meantime I will meet with the chairman for funds in order to further express the need for this law and continue to build up support so that we can codify the protection for manufacturing workers and, as the data show, save lives.”