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Committee reviews House changes to expand survivors' benefit to more emergency personnel
Summary
The Senate Committee on Government Operations examined House edits to S.89 that would add four categories of emergency personnel to the survivors' benefit, make coverage prospective to July 1, 2026, allow the board to pay for medical expertise, and permit emergency-board transfers when the legislature is out of session.
The Senate Committee on Government Operations on April 28 reviewed amendments to S.89 that would expand eligibility for the state's emergency personnel survivors benefit to include certain law enforcement officers, Department of Corrections facility employees who provide direct security and treatment services, classified Family Services Division staff, and classified mental-health employees in state-operated therapeutic residences or inpatient psychiatric units.
Representative Elizabeth Burrows, who described the House's strike-all changes to the committee, said one principal edit makes coverage prospective: "we made it prospective, for claims that are made only after July 1." Burrows said the House also added authority "that allows the emergency board to replenish funds should they run out, while the legislature is not in session,"…
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