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Committee advances bill to extend state death benefits to public works employees and coroners
Summary
The House Local Government Committee voted to include an amendment adding coroners and to report House Bill 1485 to the full House 14-12. The bill would extend the Emergency Law Enforcement Personnel Death Benefits Act to qualifying public works employees and coroners, providing a lump sum and supplemental monthly payments.
House Bill 1485, as amended, was reported out of the House Local Government Committee Wednesday after debate over which job classes should qualify for state death benefits.
The bill, sponsored by Representative Cerisi, would amend the Emergency Law Enforcement Personnel Death Benefits Act (Act 101 of 1976) so that qualifying public works employees — and, by amendment, coroners and coroner staff — are eligible for the same death benefits now available to firefighters, EMS personnel and law…
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