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HB385: relative to workers' compensation for heart and lung disease in firefighters.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2021 HB385
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Senate Finance
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04/03/2025 at 10:00 AM
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CHAPTER 83

HB 385-FN - FINAL VERSION

9Apr2021... 0307h

2021 SESSION

21-0481

10/08

HOUSE BILL 385-FN

AN ACT relative to workers' compensation for heart and lung disease in firefighters.

SPONSORS: Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34; Rep. S. Pearson, Rock. 6; Rep. Shurtleff, Merr. 11; Rep. Goley, Hills. 8; Rep. Doucette, Rock. 8; Rep. Pratt, Rock. 3; Rep. Soucy, Merr. 16; Rep. Lanzara, Hills. 28; Rep. O'Brien, Hills. 36

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill extends to age 70 the benefits from the presumption that heart or lung disease is occupationally related for firefighters.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

9Apr2021... 0307h 21-0481

10/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

AN ACT relative to workers' compensation for heart and lung disease in firefighters.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

83:1 Workers' Compensation; Firefighter and Heart, Lung, or Cancer Disease; Presumption. Amend RSA 281-A:17, I(c) to read as follows:

(c) The benefits of RSA 281-A:17, I shall not continue in effect beyond one month after a call, volunteer or permanent firefighter reaches his or her [sixty-fifth] seventieth birthday.

83:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: June 18, 2021

Effective Date: August 17, 2021