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2005 Regular Session

Senate Bill 849

AN ACT CONCERNING WORKERS' COMPENSATION COVERAGE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Appropriations Committee on May 16, 2005. The 2005 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To establish a rebuttable presumption that emergency rescue or public safety personnel who contract hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis or tuberculosis from their employment are eligible for workers' compensation benefits as long as they meet certain requirements; and to extend workers' compensation coverage to state and local police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians when they respond to emergencies outside their regular work hours.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

In the House of Representatives

    2 co-sponsors

    Roger Brian Michele, Linda A. Orange

    Its course

    January 24 to May 16, 2005, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action17 actions on 11 days

    In the SenateJan 24 to May 16 · stopped112 days

    Judiciary CommitteeApr 20 to Apr 266 days

    Appropriations CommitteeMay 11 to May 16 · stopped5 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Jan 24 – May 16

    1. Introduced and sent to Labor and Public Employees Committee
    2. Heard in Labor and Public Employees Committee
    3. Labor and Public Employees Committee recommended a substitute for it
    4. Sent to Judiciary Committee
    5. Judiciary Committee recommended it
    6. Sent to Appropriations Committee
    7. A motion to recommend it failed
    All 17 actions, as published