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HB546 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021
HB546 Alabama 2010 Session
House Bill
Enacted
Current Status
Regular Session 2010
Session
5
Sponsors

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2010
Title
Law enforcement officers, firefighters, or volunteer firefighters, death benefits for death in line of duty, requirement that death be within 10 years of injury deleted, Sec. 36-30-2 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, the dependents of a peace officer, fireman, or volunteer fireman who is killed in the line of duty are entitled to a death benefit in the amount of $100,000. If a death occurs within 10 years from an injury received in the line of duty and is proximately caused from the injury, the death is deemed to have occurred in the line of duty.

This bill would delete the requirement that the death be within 10 years of the injury if the death results from the injury.

Subjects
Death Benefits

Bill Actions

Delivered to Governor at 10:30 a.m. on April 22, 2010.

Assigned Act No. 2010-709.

Clerk of the House Certification

Signature Requested

Enrolled

Passed Second House

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1152

Third Reading Passed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Economic Expansion and Trade

Motion to Again Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Voice Vote

Hammett motion to reconsider adopted Voice Vote

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 903

Third Reading Passed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Government Appropriations

Bill Text

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature