HB488 Alabama 2022 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

First responders, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel death benefits, COVID-19 death benefit provided, Secs. 36-30-1, 36-30-2, 36-30-3, 36-30-4, 36-30-5, 36-30-7 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a death benefit is provided to law enforcement officers, volunteer and professional firefighters, and rescue squad members when those individuals are killed in the line of duty or under other specific circumstances</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would further provide for the circumstances under which an individual qualifies for the death benefit by including deaths caused by COVID-19</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize the beneficiaries or dependents of deceased emergency medical services personnel to receive the death benefit</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the exiting code language to current style</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to state death benefits; to amend Sections 36-30-1 and 36-30-2, as amended by Act 2021-488, 2021 Regular Session, and Sections 36-30-3, 36-30-4, 36-30-5, and 36-30-7, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a COVID-19 death benefit for first responders; to include emergency medical services personnel within the state death benefit; to provide retroactive effect; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the exiting code language to current style. </p>

Subjects

State Government