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  6. HB532 Alabama 2021 Session

HB532 Alabama 2021 Session

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  • 1 Bill Summary
  • 2 Bill Actions
  • 3 Bill Calendar
  • 4 Bill Text
  • 5 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Russell Bedsole
  • Tommy Hanes
  • Mike Holmes
  • Ed Oliver
  • Rex Reynolds
  • Proncey Robertson
  • Allen Treadaway
  • Tim Wadsworth
Session
Regular Session 2021
Title
Firefighters, occupational disease, to provide further for which cancers are included within meaning of firefighter's occupational disease, Sec. 11-43-144 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, if a non-volunteer firefighter develops a disability that impairs his or her ability to perform his or her duties as a firefighter, or dies in the line of duty as a firefighter, the firefighter, or his or her dependents, is eligible for compensation for the disability or death. The compensation for disability applies if the firefighter, upon entering into service as a firefighter for a municipality, has passed a successful physical examination that did not show any evidence of a firefighter's occupational disease

Also under existing law, cancer is recognized as a firefighter's occupational disease if the firefighter can establish that he or she was exposed while in the employ of the city, to a known carcinogen that is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer. A firefighter who develops a firefighter's occupational disease is presumed to have developed the disease in the course of duty

This bill would provide that when a firefighter who develops cancer within 10 years of his or her last date of employment with a municipality, the cancer is presumed to be a firefighter's occupational disease, thus rendering the firefighter eligible for disability benefits, if it is established that the firefighter, while in the employ of the municipality, was exposed to a known carcinogen that is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer

Relating to firefighters; to amend Section 11-43-144, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for which cancers are included within the meaning of firefighter's occupational disease.

Subjects
Firefighters

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
April 7, 2021 H Pending third reading on day 21 Favorable from County and Municipal Government with 1 amendment
April 7, 2021 H County and Municipal Government first Amendment Offered
April 7, 2021 H Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
March 11, 2021 H Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on County and Municipal Government

Bill Calendar

Type Date Location Description
Hearing April 7, 2021 Room S201 in the State Capitol at 13:30 House C&MG Hearing
Hearing March 17, 2021 Room 206 at 13:30 House C&MG Public Hearing

Bill Text

Download HB532 Alabama 2021 Session PDF

Bill Documents

Type Link
Bill Text HB532 Alabama 2021 Session - Introduced
Bill Amendments House County and Municipal Government first Amendment Offered
Fiscal Note Fiscal Note - HB532 for County and Municipal Government
Fiscal Note Fiscal Note - HB532 for County and Municipal Government
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