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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1740 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 1029 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1740 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFITS FOR | |
| 19 | 19 | FIREFIGHTERS AND OTHER WORKERS IMPACTED BY SIMILAR | |
| 20 | 20 | CONDITIONS THAT ARE DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That section 31-294j of the general statutes be amended to require that 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | a firefighter, or other worker impacted by similar conditions, diagnosed 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | with cancer be presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | as a result of exposures particular to the duties performed as a 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | firefighter. 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 30 | 30 | To create a presumption that a firefighter's diagnosis of cancer arose out | |
| 31 | 31 | of and in the course of employment. |