South Carolina House Bill 4147 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-25 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Yow
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend Section 42-11-30, Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, Relating To The Presumption That Certain Diseases Sustained By A Firefighter Are Occupational Diseases For The Purposes Of Workers' Compensation, So As To 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.

Firefighters

Rep. Nancy Mace [R]	Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter [D]	Rep. Timothy McGinnis [R]	Rep. William Bailey [R]
Rep. Russell Fry [R]	Rep. Laurie Funderburk [D]	Rep. William Hewitt [R]	Rep. Jeffrey Johnson [R]
Rep. Richard Yow [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-25	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Yow
2020-01-29	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Hewitt, Johnson
2020-01-15	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Funderburk
2020-01-14	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Fry
2019-03-27	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Bailey
2019-03-19	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: McGinnis
2019-02-28	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2019-02-28	House	Introduced and read first time

S1181 (Similar To) 2020-03-18 - 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=4147&session=123&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess123_2019-2020/prever/4147_20190228.htm