Bill Title: Adding post traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder to the definition of "injury" for purposes of workers' compensation, establishing the commission to study the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders, and clarifying workers' compensation for firefighter and heart, lung, or cancer disease.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-18 - III. Remainder Effective 07/17/2019 [SB59 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Regina Birdsell [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Sharon Carson [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-014	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kevin Cavanaugh [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-016	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Martha Hennessey [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-005	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Ruth Ward [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-008	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Fred Doucette [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-25-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mark Proulx [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-15-HIL	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jeffrey Goley [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-21-HIL	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Timothy Soucy [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-21-MER	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Stephen Pearson [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-13-ROC	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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