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Committee adopts amendment and advances bill to add Parkinson’s to firefighters’ compensable diseases
Summary
SB 332, to include Parkinson’s disease and certain occupational illnesses for firefighter death and disability compensation, was amended to clarify overlap with workers’ compensation and state injury funds and then advanced by voice vote.
The committee considered SB 332, which would include Parkinson’s disease and certain occupational diseases among conditions eligible for firefighter death and disability compensation, and adopted an amendment clarifying coordination with workers’ compensation and the state employee injury trust.
An amendment specified that for firefighters already eligible for workers’ compensation under chapter 5 of title 25 or benefits under the state employee injury compensation trust fund (chapter 29A of title 36), benefits would be governed solely by those provisions. Members adopted the amendment and then moved and seconded a favor report; SB 332 advanced by voice vote.
Committee members did not provide a roll-call tally in the transcript; the bill was reported favorably to the next stage.
