HB 18-1056 Summary

• Requires employers to affirmatively require Fire and Police Pension Association (FPPA) members to complete and file a statewide standard health history form upon employment, rather than merely obtaining the form.

• Newly hired members whose employment commences on or after September 1, 1989 must complete the health history form within thirty days of employment, with employers filing the completed form within sixty days of employment commencement.

• Authorizes the FPPA board to adopt an electronic format for completing and filing the health history form.

• Members are ineligible for disability benefits if the disability results from a pre-existing and permanent medical condition disclosed on the health history form; surviving spouses and dependent children are ineligible for survivor benefits under the same condition.

• Employers become liable for total payment of benefits if they fail to require members to complete and file the required health form, applying to both disability and survivor benefit claims.