HB94 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Reed IngramRepresentative

Republican

Co-Sponsor

Tommy Hanes

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Volunteer firefighter or rescue squad members, disability or death benefits, wildland firefighter employed by Forestry Commission included, cardiac arrest, etc. relating to emergency or physical training, presumed to be in the line of duty, Secs. 36-30-1, 36-30-2 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a peace officer, a firefighter, a volunteer firefighter who is a member of an organized volunteer fire department registered with the Alabama Forestry Commission, or a rescue squad member who is injured or killed under certain conditions in the performance of his or her duties is eligible for disability or death benefits under certain conditions.

This bill would include a wildland firefighter employed by the Alabama Forestry Commission within the definition of a firefighter who is eligible for disability or death benefits paid by the state for being injured or killed while engaged in the performance of his or her duties.

This bill would also specify that a volunteer firefighter or a member of an organized rescue squad who dies of cardiac arrest, cerebrovascular accident, or pulmonary edema within 24 hours of preparing to respond, responding, or serving in his or her capacity at an emergency or participating in a training exercise would be presumptively deemed to have died in the performance of his or her duties.

This bill would also provide that the changes in law provided in this bill would be retroactively applied to a death after January 1, 2019.

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Subjects

Volunteer Fire Departments