119th Congress

H.R. 6756

Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2025

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Sponsor: Morgan McGarvey(D-KY)
Introduced: Dec 16, 2025
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Committees: House Committee on Education and Workforce; House Committee on Ways and Means
Official text: Introduced in House · Congress.gov page

Cosponsors (5)

Original cosponsors (2)

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA)
Summer L. Lee (D-PA)

Added later (3)

André Carson (D-IN) · Dec 18, 2025
Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) · Jan 7, 2026
Maxine Dexter (D-OR) · Jan 20, 2026

Summary

No Congressional Research Service summary yet. CRS usually publishes one a few weeks after a bill is introduced.

Official title: To ensure that claims for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act are processed in a fair and timely manner, to better protect miners from pneumoconiosis (commonly known as "black lung disease"), and for other purposes.

Latest action(Dec 16, 2025): Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Roll-call votes

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Actions

Dec 16, 2025 · House
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Dec 16, 2025
Introduced in House