Florida House Bill 857 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on May 3 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-05-03 - Died in Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 426 (Ch. 2019-21)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Grants certain benefits to firefighter upon receiving diagnosis of cancer if certain conditions are met; requires employer to make certain disability payments to firefighter in event of total & permanent disability; provides for death benefits to firefighter's beneficiary if firefighter dies as result of cancer or cancer treatments; specifies that any costs associated with benefits granted by act must be borne by employer; requires Division of State Fire Marshal to adopt certain rules.

Firefighters

Rep. Matt Willhite [D]	Rep. Chris Latvala [R]	Rep. Ramon Alexander [D]	Rep. Vance Aloupis [R]
Rep. Alex Andrade [R]	Rep. Bruce Antone [D]	Sen. Loranne Ausley [D]	Sen. Bryan Avila [R]
Rep. Melony Bell [R]	Rep. Mike Beltran [R]	Rep. Chuck Brannan [R]	Rep. Kamia Brown [D]
Rep. James Buchanan [R]	Rep. James Bush [D]	Rep. Cord Byrd [R]	Rep. Mike Caruso [R]
Rep. Joseph Casello [D]	Rep. Chuck Clemons [R]	Rep. John Cortes [D]	Rep. Kimberly Daniels [D]
Sen. Tracie Davis [D]	Rep. Ben Diamond [D]	Sen. Nick DiCeglie [R]	Rep. Byron Donalds [R]
Rep. Brad Drake [R]	Rep. Fentrice Driskell [D]	Rep. Bobby Dubose [D]	Rep. Wyman Duggan [R]
Rep. Nicholas Duran [D]	Rep. Anna Eskamani [D]	Rep. Javier Fernandez [D]	Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin [R]
Rep. Jason Fischer [R]	Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen [R]	Rep. Joseph Geller [D]	Rep. Joy Goff-Marcil [D]
Rep. Margaret Good [D]	Rep. Michael Gottlieb [D]	Rep. Tommy Gregory [R]	Rep. Michael Grieco [D]
Rep. Dianne Hart [D]	Rep. Adam Hattersley [D]	Rep. Walter Hill [R]	Rep. Delores Hogan Johnson [D]
Rep. Kristin Jacobs [D]	Rep. Al Jacquet [D]	Rep. Evan Jenne [D]	Sen. Shevrin Jones [D]
Rep. Dotie Joseph [D]	Rep. Mike LaRosa [R]	Rep. Chip LaMarca [R]	Rep. Tom Leek [R]
Rep. Kionne McGhee [D]	Rep. Amy Mercado [D]	Rep. Wengay Newton [D]	Rep. Anika Omphroy [D]
Rep. Toby Overdorf [R]	Rep. Bobby Payne [R]	Rep. Rene Plasencia [R]	Rep. Cindy Polo [D]
Sen. Tina Polsky [D]	Rep. Mel Ponder [R]	Rep. Holly Raschein [R]	Rep. Will Robinson [R]
Rep. Anthony Rodriguez [R]	Sen. Ana Rodriguez [R]	Rep. Rick Roth [R]	Rep. David Santiago [R]
Rep. David Silvers [D]	Rep. Tyler Sirois [R]	Rep. Emily Slosberg-King [D]	Rep. Carlos Smith [D]
Rep. David Smith [R]	Rep. Richard Stark [D]	Sen. Geraldine Thompson [D]	Rep. Jackie Toledo [R]
Rep. Josie Tomkow [R]	Rep. Susan Valdes [D]	Rep. Clovis Watson [D]	Rep. Jennifer Webb [D]
Rep. Patricia Hawkins-Williams [D]	Sen. Clay Yarborough [R]	Rep. Ardian Zika [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-03	House	Died in Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 426 (Ch. 2019-21)
2019-05-03	House	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2019-03-05	House	Introduced
2019-02-28	House	Referred to Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; State Affairs Committee
2019-02-15	House	Filed

S426 (Same As) 2019-05-03 - Chapter No. 2019-21
H7129 (Similar To) 2019-04-23 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 426 (Ch. 2019-21)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
112	1816		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/857
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/857/BillText/Filed/PDF