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Committee weighs extending infectious-disease occupational disability protections to EMTs; sponsors agree to remove explicit COVID-19 mention
Summary
Sponsor and union witnesses pushed a bill to add infectious diseases to occupational disability protections for firefighters, police and EMTs; sponsors said they will remove an explicit mention of COVID-19 after municipal concerns about cost, and the committee voted to hold the bill.
Lawmakers heard from fire, police and union representatives who urged that infectious diseases be explicitly covered in occupational disability law and that emergency medical technicians be included in those protections.
Senator Basilian introduced a bill to add infectious diseases to the list that can qualify first responders for occupational disability and to add EMTs to the existing firefighters and police officers…
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