Voluntary Firefighter Cancer Benefits Program
Summary
The bill allows an employer to participate in a voluntary firefighter cancer benefits program, as a multiple employer health trust to provide benefits to firefighters by paying contributions into the established trust. The bill requires the trust to provide benefits to each firefighter based on the cancer diagnosis and award level. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2017
Committee Review
Apr 2017
Senate Passage
Mar 2017
House Passage
Apr 2017
Signed into Law
May 2017
Introduced Mar 10, 2017
Signed May 3, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
2
Committee
2
May 3, 2017
Signed into law
Governor Signed
executive
Apr 4, 2017
Committee
House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
legislature
Mar 30, 2017
Introduced
Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services
legislature
Mar 27, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
legislature
Mar 10, 2017
Introduced
Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology
legislature
4 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
BP
Brittany Pettersen
DDemocratic
P
JS
Jim Smallwood
RRepublican
P
Leroy M. Garcia, Jr.
DDemocratic
P
Tony Exum, Sr.
DDemocratic
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