SB129 Alabama 2015 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Firefighters, law enforcement officers, families eligible to receive death benefit as if the person died in the line of duty, resubmission of denied applications and extension of statute of limitations, Sec. 36-30-2 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, firefighters and law enforcement peace officers are eligible for compensation for death or disability from certain occupational diseases.

This bill would provide that the families of a firefighter or law enforcement peace officer who currently serves or previously served and dies as a result of an occupational disease are eligible to receive the state death benefit as if the firefighter or law enforcement peace officer died in the performance of his or her duties.

This bill would further provide that any application for the state death benefit that was submitted after April 29, 2010, and was denied because the decedent was not employed as a firefighter or law enforcement peace officer on the date of death may be resubmitted within six months of this bill becoming law and the awarding authority is permitted to reconsider and to grant the application.

To amend Section 36-30-2, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to firefighters and law enforcement peace officers; to provide that the families of a firefighter or law enforcement peace officer who currently serves or previously served and dies as a result of an occupational disease are eligible to receive the state death benefit as if the firefighter or law enforcement peace officer died in the performance of his or her duties; and to further provide that any application for the state death benefit that was submitted after April 29, 2010, and was denied because the decedent was not employed as a firefighter or law enforcement peace officer on the date of death may be resubmitted within six months of this bill becoming law and the awarding authority is permitted to reconsider and to grant the application.

Subjects

Firefighters