South Carolina House Bill 3348 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-01-10 - Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry
Pending: House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Provide Certain Additional Medical Conditions Also Must Be Presumed To Be Occupational Diseases For The Purposes Of Workers' Compensation, To Delete A Minimum Age For The Applicability Of This Section, To Delete A Requirement That Eligibility For This Presumption Be Conditioned Upon The Medical Condition Having Developed While The Firefighter Was Actively Engaged In Firefighting Or Within Twenty-four Hours From The Last Date He Engaged In Firefighting, To Provide That A Person Is Considered To Have Passed The Requisite Physical Examination If The Fire Department Fails To Require Or Obtain This Examination Upon His Entry Of Service, To Provide A Firefighter With Ten Years Of Service Who Sustains An Impairment Or Injury Caused By Cancer Is Entitled To A Rebuttable Presumption That This Impairment Or Injury Arose From And In The Course Of His Employment As A Firefighter, To Provide This Presumption Is Conditioned Upon Certain Medical Examinations And Reporting Requirements, And To Provide A Person Is Considered To Have Passed The Requisite Physical Examination If The Fire Department Fails To Require Or Obtain This Examination Upon His Entry Of Service.

Workers' Compensation Law

Rep. Gregory Duckworth [R]

Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry
2017-01-10	House	Introduced and read first time
2016-12-15	House	Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry
2016-12-15	House	Prefiled

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
42	11	30	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3348&session=122&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/prever/3348_20161215.htm