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OH HB246
Bill
Status
6/30/2009
Primary Sponsor
Barbara Boyd
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AI Summary
HB 246 Summary
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Creates presumption that firefighters, police officers, and public emergency medical services workers with specified cancers or contagious/infectious diseases contracted the illness while performing official duties, unless evidence proves otherwise.
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Covered cancers include lung, brain, kidney, bladder, rectum, stomach, skin, prostate, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, testicular, and colorectal cancer.
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Firefighters and EMS workers must have at least 3 years of hazard duty assignment to qualify for cancer presumption; police officers have no hazard duty requirement.
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Contagious or infectious diseases covered are those specified in rules adopted under Ohio Department of Health regulations.
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Presumption applies to workers' compensation claims and Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund disability benefit determinations, with applicability effective on the bill's enactment date.
Legislative Description
To provide that a firefighter, police officer, or public emergency medical services worker who is disabled as a result of specified types of cancer or certain contagious or infectious diseases is presumed for purposes of the laws governing workers' compensation and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to have incurred the disease while performing official duties as a firefighter, police officer, or public emergency medical services worker.
Emergency responders-disabled by disease- workers' comp presumed as if on duty
Last Action
To Aging & Disability Services
6/30/2009