Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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This legislation may require workers' compensation benefits to a firefighter who develops hypertension, heart disease, and respiratory disease, as well as cancer, AIDS or hepatitis that manifests while the firefighter is employed at the county and was exposed in the line and scope of his employment with the county. However, if the firefighter used tobacco within five years of the onset of the condition, then it will not be assumed that the condition was caused by the firefighter's service to the county. |
