S 1470 New Jersey Senate · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as result of responding to September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

New Jersey's S 1470 establishes that public safety workers (firefighters, police, EMTs) who responded to the September 11, 2001 attacks and participate in the federal World Trade Center Health Program are deemed eligible for state workers' compensation benefits for related illnesses or injuries. The bill creates a presumption of compensability regardless of when a claim is filed, provided the worker is enrolled in the federal health program. Workers must file claims within two years of the bill's effective date or when they knew of a disability linked to 9/11 exposure, and prior benefits from federal or other state programs reduce new awards. Employers and government entities must notify affected workers and their families within three months of the bill's enactment about this eligibility.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 25, 2024
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Jan 25, 2024
Committee
Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
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Jan 25, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
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Jan 9, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Labor Committee
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2 primary · 7 co-sponsors

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