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SB168Introduced in the Senate

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 Andre Jacque, District 1

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

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Bill history

  1. Introduced

  2. Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

  3. Representatives Palmeri and Fitzgerald added as cosponsors

  4. Representative Udell added as a cosponsor

  5. Fiscal estimate received

  6. Representative Neubauer added as a cosponsor

  7. Representative McCarville added as a cosponsor

  8. Representative Snodgrass added as a cosponsor

  9. Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a cosponsor

  10. Representative Rivera-Wagner added as a cosponsor

  11. Representative Brown added as a cosponsor

  12. Representative Billings added as a cosponsor

  13. Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor

  14. Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

  15. Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  16. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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