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ID H0554
Bill
Status
3/30/2016
Primary Sponsor
Commerce and Human Resources Committee
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AI Summary
HB 554 Summary
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Amends Idaho worker's compensation law to establish presumption that 11 specified cancers and diseases in firefighters are caused by employment if diagnosed after minimum tenure periods ranging from 5 to 15 years.
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Specified diseases include brain cancer (10 years), bladder cancer (12 years), kidney cancer (15 years), leukemia (5 years), mesothelioma (10 years), and others with age or genetic restrictions for testicular and breast cancers.
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Presumption may be rebutted by substantial evidence to the contrary, after which firefighter must prove causation by preponderance of evidence before the Industrial Commission.
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Presumption does not apply if disease diagnosed more than 10 years after firefighter's last work date, or if firefighter or cohabitant regularly used tobacco products for 10+ years before diagnosis.
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Employment periods must be within Idaho; bill sunsets July 1, 2021, and includes technical corrections and definition updates to worker's compensation definitions.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law to provide that compensation shall be payable for disability or death resulting from certain firefighter occupational diseases, to provide a presumption of proximate causation between specified diseases and employment as a firefighter, to provide for rebuttal of the presumption, to provide for the demonstration of causal connection, to provide that the presumption shall not apply under certain circumstances and to clarify that employment shall be within the State of Idaho.
WORKER'S COMPENSATION
Last Action
Reported Signed by Governor on March 30, 2016 Session Law Chapter 276 Effective: 07/01/2016; 07/01/2021 Sunset Clause
3/30/2016