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OH SB94
Bill
Status
4/7/2009
Primary Sponsor
Jim Hughes
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AI Summary
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Creates a presumption that firefighters, police officers, and public emergency medical services workers with specified cancers or infectious diseases contracted the conditions during official duties, rebuttable only by competent evidence.
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Covers cancers including lung, brain, kidney, bladder, rectum, stomach, skin, prostate; non-Hodgkins lymphoma; leukemia; multiple myeloma; testicular and colorectal cancer; and contagious or infectious diseases specified in Ohio Department of Health rules.
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Requires firefighters and public emergency medical services workers to have at least three years of hazard duty assignment; applies to all police officers regardless of hazard duty time.
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Presumption does not apply if the cancer or disease or evidence of it was revealed by the physical examination upon entry into the department.
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Amendments apply to Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund disability benefit applications filed after the effective date and to workers' compensation claims arising after the effective 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 service workers-cancer/infectious diseases-presume incurred on job
Last Action
To Insurance, Commerce, & Labor
4/7/2009