Loading chat...
OH HB346
Bill
Status
10/12/2011
Primary Sponsor
Lorraine Fende
Click for details
AI Summary
HB 346 Summary
-
Establishes presumption that specified cancers and contagious/infectious diseases in firefighters, police officers, and public emergency medical services workers are work-related if contracted during employment, shifting burden of proof to employer to show otherwise.
-
Lists presumed occupational diseases including lung, brain, kidney, bladder, rectum, stomach, skin, or prostate cancer; non-Hodgkins lymphoma; leukemia; multiple myeloma; testicular or colorectal cancer; and contagious or infectious diseases specified in Ohio health department rules.
-
Applies to firefighters and police officers with no tenure requirement, and to public emergency medical services workers with at least three years of hazard duty; presumption does not apply if disease or evidence existed at entry physical examination.
-
Amends Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund law (section 742.38), workers' compensation law for partial disability (section 4123.57), and occupational disease compensation law (section 4123.68).
-
Provisions apply to disability benefit applications filed on or after the effective date for pension fund claims, and to workers' compensation claims arising on or 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.
Firefighters/police/EMS workers-certain diseases-presume incurred while on duty
Last Action
To Insurance
10/12/2011