# 119-hr-6757: Relief for Survivors of Miners Act of 2025

119-hr-6757, Relief for Survivors of Miners Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. McGarvey, Morgan [D-KY-3] (D-KY); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6757
- Congress: 119
- Title: Relief for Survivors of Miners Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-16
- Sponsor: Rep. McGarvey, Morgan [D-KY-3] (D-KY)
- Cosponsors: 10
- Policy area: Labor and Employment
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Easier access to Black Lung survivor benefits through new rebuttable presumptions.** The bill would add two rebuttable presumptions linking long coal employment or total disability from pneumoconiosis to a miner's death, restore pre-1981 disability definitions, and create a limited program to pay attorneys' fees and unreimbursed medical costs for delayed contested claims. - Survivors and families: Survivors would face easier rules to show a miner's death was due to pneumoconiosis if the miner worked at least 10 years in a coal mine or was totally disabled by the disease. - Claimants and eligibility: The bill restores certain pre-1981 rules about total disability from pneumoconiosis and updates statutory language by replacing "respirable" with "respiratory," which affects how some claims are framed. - Attorneys, operators, and the fund: It creates an Attorneys' Fees and Medical Expenses Payment Program that would pay up to $4,500 for attorneys' fees and up to $3,000 for medical expenses per qualifying contested claim, and requires liable mine operators to reimburse the fund if compensation is later awarded.

## Cosponsors (10)

- Rep. Budzinski, Nikki [D-IL-13] (D-IL), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17] (D-PA), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Dexter, Maxine [D-OR-3] (D-OR), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12] (D-PA), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-VA-4] (D-VA), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] (D-MN), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12] (D-NC), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carson, André [D-IN-7] (D-IN), 2025-12-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2026-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7] (D-AL), 2026-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Help paying lawyers and medical bills: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would require the Labor Secretary to set up a program within 180 days to pay lawyers' fees and unreimbursed medical costs from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. It would cover contested claims with no final order within one year. The program could pay up to $4,500 in attorn…
- More benefits for miners' survivors: benefit, high. If enacted, this bill would make it easier for many miners' survivors to get Black Lung benefits. It would create a strong presumption that death was caused by pneumoconiosis when a miner worked at least 10 years in a coal mine. It would also create a presumption when a miner had been totally disab…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act
- 119-hr-15: Equality Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-6757 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6757)

## Related
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51)
- [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20)
- [119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5390)
- [119-hr-15: Equality Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-15)
- [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6757 (as of 2026-04-21).