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<a href="mailto:loganb@awcnet.org">Logan Bahr</a>, <a href="mailto:brandona@awcnet.org">Brandon Anderson</a> | Apr 05, 2019
<a target="_blank" href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1913&Chamber=House&Year=2019" target="_blank"><strong>HB 1913</strong></a> creates new first-responder workers’ compensation presumptions for additional cancers and infectious diseases.
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.