South Carolina House Bill 3424 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-25 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary 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

Sen. Michael Gambrell [R]	Rep. Wendell Gilliard [D]	Rep. Lonnie Hosey [D]	Rep. David Mack [D]
Rep. Jackson Whipper [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-25		Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2011-01-25		Introduced and read first time

S0392 (Similar To) 2011-01-19 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary

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=3424&session=119&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/3424_20110125.htm