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Senate committee backs expanding presumptive list for firefighter occupational cancers
Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee · February 16, 2026
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Summary
House Bill 128, which adds ten cancers to the presumptive causation list for firefighters and adjusts qualifying timeframes for workers' compensation, won committee support; firefighters and union witnesses recounted personal cancer diagnoses and urged relief from the burden of proving occupational causation.
The committee moved House Bill 128 forward after sponsors described the measure to expand the presumptive-causation list for firefighters and adjust timeframes for worker- compensation eligibility.
Sponsor testimony emphasized that firefighters inhale a "toxic…
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