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Committee adopts changes to firefighter cancer presumptions, adds screening provisions
Summary
A Senate committee substituted and favorably recommended House Bill 65, which expands presumptive cancers for firefighters and creates larger initial screening support and a screening program modeled on an Arizona protocol.
A Senate committee on Feb. 20 adopted a third substitute and favorably recommended House Bill 65, a measure to add cancers to Utah’s presumptive list for firefighters and to set up expanded cancer screening resources for the fire service.
The bill sponsor told the panel the measure clarifies several technical provisions: it removes an existing prescreening protocol (a stakeholder agreement), increases the fiscal note for initial prescreening, and raises the years-of-service threshold tied to presumptions from five years to eight years. The sponsor said the changes reflect stakeholder consensus and results of a review conducted with Rocky…
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