2025 bills / S.B. 255
S.B. 255 Line-of-Duty Death Benefit Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill adds dental and vision coverage to the benefits available to the spouse and surviving children of a public safety or firefighter employee who dies in the line of duty. It also removes the 12-month waiting period before families can access trust fund money to pay for those benefits.
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Official description
- adds dental and vision benefits to the benefits available to the spouse and surviving children of a public safety employee or fire service employee who dies in the line of duty
- removes the 12-month waiting period for accessing funds from the Local Public Safety and Firefighter Surviving Spouse Trust Fund to pay for the surviving spouse's and children's benefits
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 255 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 255 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 67 yes, 0 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 20, 2025 Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 24, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Feb 25, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 3, 2025 House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Mar 7, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 7, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch