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H.B. 416 First Responder Health Modifications

Became lawWritten by Rep. Jordan D. Teuscher · carried in the Senate by Sen. Scott D. Sandall

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

The bill would create a Firefighter Cancer Benefit Trust Fund to pay firefighters immediate benefits after a presumptive cancer diagnosis while their workers' compensation claims are pending. A board within the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy would oversee the fund and recommend benefit levels and funding, and the fund would be paid from excess fire insurance premium tax revenue; the latest version also adds mental health services for first responders.

Plain-English summary written by AI from the sponsor’s presentation in committee and on the floor. Check the official text below.

Official description
  • defines terms
  • changes the amount of revenue transferred to the Utah State Retirement Office from the insurance premiums tax and used to pay for certain firefighter retirement programs
  • creates the Firefighter Cancer Benefit Trust Fund (trust fund)
  • creates a board of trustees
  • establishes the duties of the board of trustees
  • provides funding for the cancer screening program
  • provides funding for the trust fund
  • amends eligibility requirements for the Volunteer Emergency Medical Service Personnel Insurance Program
  • requires the Department of Public Safety (department) to annually submit a report on first responder agencies' compliance with requirements to provide mental health resources to first responders and first responders' spouses to the:
  • Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee
  • State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice's public safety portal
  • amends eligibility for receiving mental health resources for separated first responders and separated first responders' spouses
  • creates the Mental Health Resources for First Responders Restricted Account to provide funding for the department to provide certain mental health resources to eligible small first responder agencies
  • provides a sunset date for grants to first responder agencies
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What it costs you

From the bill's latest official fiscal note, counting the state's tax funds (General, Income Tax, Education, Uniform School, and Transportation) in the first full budget year after the session. Some bills take effect partway through that year, so later years can be larger; the note shows each year. Household count: U.S. Census Bureau. An average is a starting point, not your bill.

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