FL H6501

Appropriates $10 million from the General Revenue Fund to compensate former employees of Wood Treaters, LLC who suffered injuries from arsenic exposure at the Fairfax Street Wood Treaters facility in Jacksonville, which operated from 1980 to 2010

Each eligible former employee receives $100,000 for personal injuries and damages resulting from excessive, persistent, and prolonged exposure to chromated copper arsenate, a toxic wood preservative

Directs the Department of Health to collaborate with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to develop data on arsenic exposure levels, duration, and frequency for all former employees

Assigns liability to the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Financial Services, and Department of Health for failing to enforce workplace safety measures and ignoring hazardous conditions

Attorney fees are capped at 25% of the amount awarded, and compensation provided is intended as sole remedy for all present and future claims arising from this situation