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Panel debates S.89 to expand survivor benefits to more frontline state workers; treasurer flags fund limits
Summary
S.89 would extend a state survivor payment to additional emergency and frontline employees (law enforcement, corrections, family-services frontline staff and some mental-health workers). The treasurer’s office told the committee the fund balance (fiscal note: ~$95,406) would cover one payout and asked for a one-time $25,000 appropriation to obtain medical expertise for adjudicating occupational-illness claims.
Senate committee members heard a presentation on S.89, a bill to expand the state survivor payment currently available to firefighters to additional categories of frontline state employees, including law enforcement, correctional staff, certain family-services frontline employees and medical staff at state-operated therapeutic facilities.
The bill sponsor and legislative council said the expansion could add roughly 2,283 people to the universe of those eligible for the benefit. Legislative council staff circulated a…
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