Enacts the "Volunteer Firefighter and Ambulance Worker Protection and Incentive Act of 2017"
Summary
Enacts the "Volunteer Firefighter and Ambulance Worker Protection and Incentive Act of 2017"; increases the volunteer firefighters' and volunteer ambulance workers' credit in the amount of five hundred dollars; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; establishes priority access to wireless telephone and text messaging services for emergency service; provides safety for employees who are late or miss work because they have responded to an emergency; eliminates the expiration on benefits for volunteer firefighters for disease and malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 23, 2017
Last action Jan 3, 2018
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Jan 3, 2018
Legislature · Referred to committee
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Feb 23, 2017
Legislature · Referred to committee
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