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AB158Introduced in the Assembly

Changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)

Failed

Introduced by David Armstrong, District 67

What does this bill do?

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Official description

An Act to renumber and amend 102.17 (9) (a) 1.; to amend 102.17 (9) (b) (intro.); to create 102.17 (9) (a) 1c., 102.17 (9) (a) 1e., 102.17 (9) (a) 1g. and 102.17 (9) (a) 1p. of the statutes; Relating to: changing the conditions of liability for worker’s compensation benefits for emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff. (FE)

Where it stands

Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

March 23, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

No recorded vote is available for this bill yet.

Bill history

  1. Introduced

  2. Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment

  3. Representatives Palmeri and Fitzgerald added as coauthors

  4. Representative Udell added as a coauthor

  5. Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor

  6. Fiscal estimate received

  7. Representative McCarville added as a coauthor

  8. Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor

  9. Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor

  10. Representative Rivera-Wagner added as a coauthor

  11. Representative Brown added as a coauthor

  12. Representative Billings added as a coauthor

  13. Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  14. Representative Emerson added as a coauthor

  15. Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  16. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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