House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs
The firefighter occupational-cancer bill SB26-184 cleared House State Affairs after a combustible, hours-long hearing that split the panel along party lines, while two joint-technology bills sailed through without opposition. The night's fights were over a failed amendment to add state firefighters, dueling equal-protection warnings, and raw testimony from a firefighter's daughter.
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“the average payout from the trust is 21 grand. In the context of a cancer diagnosis, $21,000 is peanuts. Cancer treatment can easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe State Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Mr. Beck, please call the roll. Representatives Bradley Carter. Present. Graff. Espinoza. Present. Ferre. Here. Froelich. Here. Luck. Joyfully. Here. Win. Go. Abs Ricks. Here. Clifford. Here. And Madam Chair? Here. All right, we have three bills on the agenda. 186, 184 and 185. Because bills 186 and 185 do not have testimony and have the same sponsors, we'll hear both of those bills first, and then we'll move on to Senate Bill 184. All right, we've got our photography out of the way, so let's start with Senate Bill 186. Who would like to begin? Representative Tatone. Thank you, Madam Chair. All right, this is a really very complicated bill, so stand by and be ready. This is a JTC bill. It adapts the Workers Compensation act, and it says that you don't have to continue to mail things to people. And that's pretty much it. It was. Certified mail was the only way you could inform the people. So we got rid of that and made it more flexible so now you can email people and things like that. So that's it. That's all the bill…
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