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Last action · February 7, 2025

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Introduced February 5, 2025

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2025 Regular Session

HB323

AN ACT relating to death benefits.

Amend KRS 61.315 to make a technical correction and include additional cancers which, when they are the cause of death of a firefighter, would make the firefighter eligible for death benefits.

Deaths Firefighters and Fire Departments Occupational Safety and Health Treasurer

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This bill would expand the list of cancers that qualify a firefighter's family for death benefits if the firefighter dies from one of those cancers. It also makes a technical correction to the existing law. This update could provide financial support to the families of firefighters whose deaths are linked to cancers not currently covered. Who it may affect: firefighters and their surviving family members.

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