Bill would end federal workplace safety rules and checks.
H.R. 86 — NOSHA Act · Filed by Andy Biggs (R-AZ) · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill ends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. It shuts down the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Federal workplace safety rules, checks, and fines would stop. Employers would no longer have to follow federal safety rules. Workers would lose federal protection from unsafe work.
Who it affects
Workers would lose federal safety protection and the right to report unsafe work. Employers would no longer face federal safety rules or fines. States would make their own workplace safety rules instead.
One thing to notice
The bill would end a federal list that tracks workplace injuries and sickness. Researchers, journalists, and workers use this data to find unsafe employers.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $450,304 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 40 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Andy Biggs, who sponsored the bill, received $9,100 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- International Association of Fire Fighters — $380,304 in 2 reports
- Salem Media Group — $70,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 — The federal law that set up workplace safety rules and checks.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration — The federal agency that enforces workplace safety rules and checks workplaces.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (255 characters) on Aug 17, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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