West Virginia Senate Bill 228 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-09 - To Government Organization
Pending: Senate Government Organization Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to define “professional firefighter” for purposes of Workers’ Compensation disability and death benefits and to require the Insurance Commissioner to study the effects of the rebuttable presumptions created in this section on the premiums charged for workers' compensation for professional firefighters and the overall impact of the risk management programs, wage replacement, premium calculation for the cost providing coverage to professional firefighters and the separation of professional firefighter functions from nonactive, nonfirefighting or support functions in volunteer fire departments.

Relating to workers compensation disability and death benefits

Sen. Gregory Boso [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-09	Senate	To Government Organization
2017-02-09	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2017-02-09	Senate	To Government Organization
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	4	1	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=228&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb228%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=228