Joshua John Comeau First Responder Cancer Benefit Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8649
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2020-10-20
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cancer

Employee benefits and pensions

First responders and emergency personnel

Law enforcement officers

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2020-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Joshua John Comeau First Responder Cancer Benefit Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill creates a presumption that a public safety officer who was exposed to a known carcinogen while working and who dies from a cancer related to that exposure on or after January 1, 2018, is eligible for certain benefits payable to public safety officers injured or killed in the line of duty.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8649 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 20, 2020 Mrs. Walorski introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for a presumption of eligibility for benefits for certain public safety officers who died of exposure-related cancers, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Joshua John Comeau First Responder Cancer Benefit Act of 2020 . 2. Exposure-related cancer Section 1201 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10281 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (o) (1) As determined by the Bureau, an exposure-related cancer resulting in the death of a public safety officer shall be presumed to constitute a personal injury within the meaning of subsection (a), sustained in the line of duty by the officer and directly and proximately resulting in death, if that public safety officer was exposed to or in contact with any known carcinogen, or carcinogenic substance or condition while at the scene of an accident, a fire, or any other rescue or public safety operation. (2) For purposes of this subsection, the term exposure-related cancer includes the following: (A) Mesothelioma. (B) Testicular cancer. (C) Multiple myeloma. (D) Leukemia. (E) Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. (F) Skin cancer. (G) Malignant melanoma. (H) Brain cancer. (I) Prostate cancer. (J) Colon cancer. (K) Stomach cancer. (L) Lung cancer. (M) Esophagus cancer. (N) Kidney cancer. (O) Bladder cancer. (P) Any other form of cancer that the Bureau may determine appropriate. . 3. Applicability The amendment made by section 2 shall apply in the case of any public safety officer who died on or after January 1, 2018, as a result of an exposure-related cancer.