Bill Text: FL S0212 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Claims/Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers [WPSC]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 2176 (Ch. 2010-175) [S0212 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-S0212-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Claims/Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers [WPSC]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 2176 (Ch. 2010-175) [S0212 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-S0212-Comm_Sub.html
Florida Senate - 2010 CS for CS for SB 212 By the Committees on Banking and Insurance; and Criminal Justice; and Senator Oelrich 597-04850-10 2010212c2 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to claims by law enforcement and 3 correctional officers; amending s. 30.2905, F.S.; 4 providing for interpretation of provisions relating to 5 workers’ compensation benefits for certain services 6 performed by off-duty deputy sheriffs; providing for 7 recovery by sheriffs of increased workers’ 8 compensation expenses due to off-duty employment of 9 deputy sheriffs; amending s. 112.18, F.S.; providing 10 conditions under which a law enforcement officer, 11 correctional officer, or correctional probation 12 officer who suffers from a specified medical condition 13 and has materially departed from the prescribed 14 treatment for that condition shall lose a specified 15 presumption for workers’ compensation claims made on 16 or after a specified date; defining the term 17 “prescribed course of treatment”; providing for 18 independent medical examinations in certain 19 situations; providing that only claims made before 20 leaving employment are eligible for a specified 21 presumption; providing an effective date. 22 23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 24 25 Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 30.2905, Florida 26 Statutes, is amended to read: 27 30.2905 Program to contract for employment of off-duty 28 deputies for security services.— 29 (2)(a) Any such public or private employer of a deputy 30 sheriff shall be responsible for the acts or omissions of the 31 deputy sheriff while performing services for that employer while 32 off duty, including workers’ compensation benefits. 33 (b) However, for the workers’ compensation purposes of this 34 section:,35 1. A deputy sheriff so employed who sustains an injury 36 while enforcing the criminal, traffic, or penal laws of this 37 state shall be regarded as working on duty. 38 2. The term “enforcing the criminal, traffic, or penal laws 39 of this state” shall be interpreted to include providing 40 security, patrol, or traffic direction for a private employer. 41 3. A sheriff may recover from a private or public employer 42 of an off-duty deputy sheriff, who is regarded as working on 43 duty under this paragraph, any increase in the sheriff’s 44 workers’ compensation expenses which results directly from the 45 off-duty employment. 46 Section 2. Section 112.18, Florida Statutes, is amended to 47 read: 48 112.18 Firefighters and law enforcement or correctional 49 officers; special provisions relative to disability.— 50 (1)(a) Any condition or impairment of health of any Florida 51 state, municipal, county, port authority, special tax district, 52 or fire control district firefighter or any law enforcement 53 officer,orcorrectional officer, or correctional probation 54 officer as defined in s. 943.10(1), (2), or (3) caused by 55 tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension resulting in total 56 or partial disability or death shall be presumed to have been 57 accidental and to have been suffered in the line of duty unless 58 the contrary be shown by competent evidence. However, any such 59 firefighter or law enforcement officer mustshallhave 60 successfully passed a physical examination upon entering into 61 any such service as a firefighter or law enforcement officer, 62 which examination failed to reveal any evidence of any such 63 condition. Such presumption doesshallnot apply to benefits 64 payable under or granted in a policy of life insurance or 65 disability insurance, unless the insurer and insured have 66 negotiated for such additional benefits to be included in the 67 policy contract. 68 (b)1. For any workers’ compensation claim filed under this 69 section and chapter 440 occurring on or after July 1, 2010, a 70 law enforcement officer, correctional officer, or correctional 71 probation officer as defined in s. 943.10(1), (2), or (3) 72 suffering from tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension is 73 presumed not to have incurred such disease in the line of duty 74 as provided in this section if the law enforcement officer, 75 correctional officer, or correctional probation officer: 76 a. Departed in a material fashion from the prescribed 77 course of treatment of his or her personal physician and the 78 departure is demonstrated to have resulted in a significant 79 aggravation of the tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension 80 resulting in disability or increasing the disability or need for 81 medical treatment; or 82 b. Was previously compensated pursuant to this section and 83 chapter 440 for tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension and 84 thereafter sustains and reports a new compensable workers’ 85 compensation claim under this section and chapter 440, and the 86 law enforcement officer, correctional officer, or correctional 87 probation officer has departed in a material fashion from the 88 prescribed course of treatment of an authorized physician for 89 the preexisting workers’ compensation claim and the departure is 90 demonstrated to have resulted in a significant aggravation of 91 the tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension resulting in 92 disability or increasing the disability or need for medical 93 treatment. 94 2. As used in this paragraph, “prescribed course of 95 treatment” means prescribed medical courses of action and 96 prescribed medicines for the specific disease or diseases 97 claimed and as documented in the prescribing physician’s medical 98 records. 99 3. If there is a dispute as to the appropriateness of the 100 course of treatment prescribed by a physician under sub 101 subparagraph 1.a. or sub-subparagraph 1.b. or whether a 102 departure in a material fashion from the prescribed course of 103 treatment is demonstrated to have resulted in a significant 104 aggravation of the tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension 105 resulting in disability or increasing the disability or need for 106 medical treatment, the law enforcement officer, correctional 107 officer, or correctional probation officer is entitled to seek 108 an independent medical examination pursuant to s. 440.13(5). 109 4. A law enforcement officer, correctional officer, or 110 correctional probation officer is not entitled to the 111 presumption provided in this section unless a claim for benefits 112 is made prior to leaving the employment of the employing agency. 113 (2) This section authorizes each governmental entity 114 specified in subsection (1)shall be construed to authorize the115above governmental entitiesto negotiate policy contracts for 116 life and disability insurance to include accidental death 117 benefits or double indemnity coverage which shall include the 118 presumption that any condition or impairment of health of any 119 firefighter, law enforcement officer, or correctional officer 120 caused by tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension resulting 121 in total or partial disability or death was accidental and 122 suffered in the line of duty, unless the contrary be shown by 123 competent evidence. 124 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.