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This bill, the Correctional Facilities Occupational Safety and Health Act of 2023, aims to enhance coverage and oversight of occupational safety and health standards in correctional facilities. The key provisions include: 1. Defining "correctional facility" and adding "incarcerated workers" to the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), requiring state plans to cover incarcerated workers and federal prisons to apply their occupational safety and health programs to incarcerated workers. 2. Incentivizing states to enact protections for incarcerated workers by requiring them to submit annual reports on workplace safety and health conditions in correctional facilities to receive certain grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. 3. Establishing a grant program through the Department of Labor to assist states in amending their occupational safety and health laws to cover incarcerated workers and enforce those laws appropriately. The bill seeks to extend the same occupational safety and health protections to incarcerated workers as those provided to other employees under the OSH Act.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/518/all-info