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Advocacy


Published on Apr 05, 2019

First-responder occupational disease bill passes committee

Contact: Logan Bahr, Brandon Anderson

HB 1913 creates new first-responder workers’ compensation presumptions for additional cancers and infectious diseases. It also establishes a new advisory committee on occupational disease presumptions within the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) that would review scientific evidence and make recommendations to the Legislature for any future presumptive diseases for first responders.

The bill was voted out of the Senate Ways & Means Committee on April 3.

HB 1913 is the product of months-long negotiations among cities, counties, and first-responder advocacy groups. AWC supports the compromise bill.

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