HB386 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Rod Scott
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Workers' compensation, firefighters, rebuttable presumption established, occupational disease, Secs. 25-5-110, 25-5-120 am'd.
Description: This bill, for purposes of the workers' compensation law, would revise the definition of occupational disease.
This bill would provide definitions for the terms "cancer of a firefighter" and "occupational post traumatic stress disorder." This bill would establish a rebuttable presumption relating to the workers' compensation benefits of a firefighter who is diagnosed with cancer and a rebuttable presumption relating to the workers' compensation benefits of a firefighter who is diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.
Subjects: Firefighters

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