ID S1336

Adds new subsection (14) to Idaho Code Section 72-438 establishing "firefighter occupational disease" coverage for employees whose primary occupation is extinguishing or investigating fires as part of a fire district, fire department, or fire brigade.

Creates a rebuttable presumption that eleven specified cancers are proximately caused by firefighter employment if diagnosed after required employment periods ranging from 5 to 15 years and not revealed during initial employment medical screening or subsequent reviews under the national firefighters protection act.

Specified cancers include brain cancer (10 years), bladder cancer (12 years), kidney cancer (15 years), colorectal cancer (10 years), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (15 years), leukemia (5 years), ureter cancer (12 years), testicular cancer (5 years if before age 40), breast cancer (5 years if before age 40 without genetic predisposition), esophageal cancer (10 years), and multiple myeloma (15 years).

Allows employers to rebut the presumption with medical evidence showing the disease was not proximately caused by employment duties, after which firefighters must prove causation by preponderance of evidence before the Idaho industrial commission.

Presumption does not apply to diseases diagnosed more than 10 years after the firefighter's last date of actual employment and does not preclude firefighters from demonstrating causal connection through other evidence.