A covered employee shall receive medical benefits under section 7384t of this title for that employee's occupational illness.
An individual receiving beryllium sensitivity monitoring under this subsection shall receive the following:
The compensation provided under this section, when authorized or approved by the President, shall be paid from the compensation fund established under section 7384e of this title.
then half of such payment shall be made to such surviving spouse, and the other half of such payment shall be made in equal shares to each child of the covered employee who is living and a minor at the time of payment.
This section shall take effect on July 31, 2001, unless Congress otherwise provides in an Act enacted before that date.
42 U.S.C. § 7384s
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2001-Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 107-107 amended heading and text of subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows:"(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, if a covered employee dies before the effective date specified in subsection (f) of this section, whether or not the death is a result of that employee's occupational illness, a survivor of that employee may, on behalf of that survivor and any other survivors of that employee, receive the compensation provided for under this section."(2) The right to receive compensation under this section shall be afforded to survivors in the same order of precedence as that set forth in section 8109 of title 5."
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2001 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 107-107 effective July 1, 2001, see section 3151(a)(4)(D) of Pub. L. 107-107 set out as a note under section 7384l of this title.