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.