Bill Title: Amends the Coal Mining Act. Eliminates the Miners' Examining Board and transfers its duties to the Mining Board and makes conforming changes throughout the Act. Provides that no person shall be employed or engaged at the face of the coal as a machine operator (rather than as a coal loader, loading machine operator, cutting machine operator, driller or shooter, timberman or roof bolter) in any coal mine in this State without having first obtained a certificate of competency from the Mining Board, and having completed a course of instruction in first aid (rather than a course of instruction in first aid to the injured and mine rescue methods and appliances prescribed by the Department). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2639 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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