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Committee approves bill to extend line-of-duty death benefits to occupational-cancer fatalities back to 2019
Summary
HB 1322 would allow survivors of firefighters whose deaths are caused by occupational cancers recognized as line-of-duty disabilities since Feb. 2019 to receive line-of-duty death benefits; sponsors said the fiscal impact is likely small and that no retroactive lump-sum payments would be made before the effective date.
Representative Clowney told the joint Public Retirement & Social Security Programs committee HB 1322 closes a gap between a 2019 change that classified certain occupational cancers as a line-of-duty disability and the state's death-benefit framework.
"Back in 02/2019, we as a legislature prudently, made occupational cancer, so certain cancers that firefighters get, as a result of fighting fires. We made those, we made all of the changes in Arkansas law for those to be…
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