HB255 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jim Barton

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Chad FincherDavid Sessions

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Firefighters, death or disability benefits for occupational disease for state firefighters, definition of occupational diseases expanded for municipal firefighters to include a cerebral vascular accident or stroke, Sec. 11-43-144 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, there are specific compensation provisions for the death or disability due to occupational disease of a firefighter employed by a city. However, there are no specific compensation provisions for state firefighters.

Also, the term "firefighter's occupational disease" does not include cerebral vascular accident or stroke.

This bill would include a cerebral vascular accident or stroke in the definition of a municipal firefighter's occupational disease.

This bill also would provide death or disability benefits due to occupational disease as defined for a firefighter employed by the state.

The bill would also specify that, if a firefighter suffers from heart disease, hypertension, respiratory disease, cerebral vascular accident or stroke, cancer, HIV, or hepatitis, the state must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the condition was caused by some means other than the occupation to disqualify the firefighter from benefits.

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Subjects

Firefighters