KY HB156 | 2015 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-7)
Status: Engrossed on February 26 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-10 - to Committee on Committees (S)
Pending: Senate Committee on Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]
Status: Engrossed on February 26 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-10 - to Committee on Committees (S)
Pending: Senate Committee on Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]
Summary
Amend KRS 95A.262 to require the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to pay for workers' compensation for paid and volunteer firefighters; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to create a presumption of an occupational disease under KRS Chapter 342 for firefighters who obtain cancer; provide that the rebuttable presumption exists if an firefighter is employed for five years or more, has not used tobacco products for ten years, and commission pays for the workers' compensation coverage; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2016.
Title
AN ACT relating to firefighters.
Sponsors
| Rep. Dwight Butler [R] | Rep. Robert Benvenuti [R] | Rep. Regina Huff [R] | Rep. Tim Couch [R] |
| Rep. Mitchel Denham [D] | Rep. Jeffery Donohue [D] | Rep. Kelly Flood [D] | Rep. Jeff Greer [D] |
| Rep. Mike Harmon [R] | Rep. Dennis Horlander [D] | Rep. Joni Jenkins [D] | Rep. Martha King [D] |
| Rep. Russ Meyer [D] | Rep. Terry Mills [D] | Rep. Rick Nelson [D] | Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D] |
| Rep. John Short [D] | Rep. Susan Westrom [D] | Rep. Addia Wuchner [R] | Rep. Brent Yonts [D] |
| Rep. Jill York [R] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-10 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2015-03-10 | Senate | taken from Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) |
| 2015-03-04 | Senate | reassigned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) |
| 2015-03-02 | Senate | to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) |
| 2015-02-26 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2015-02-25 | House | 3rd reading, passed 96-2 |
| 2015-02-24 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
| 2015-02-24 | House | reported favorably, to Rules |
| 2015-02-13 | House | posted in committee |
| 2015-02-09 | House | recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
| 2015-02-06 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2015-02-05 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2015-02-03 | House | posted in committee |
| 2015-02-03 | House | reassigned to Labor & Industry (H) |
| 2015-01-09 | House | to Local Government (H) |
| 2015-01-08 | House | introduced in House |
