Legislation Details

File #: ID#24-0945    Version: 1 Name: Firefighter Cancer Presumption Law
Type: Action Item Status: Passed
File created: 8/5/2024 In control: Pension Trustees
On agenda: 8/12/2024 Final action: 8/12/2024
Title: Approve changes to the PAC Manual, Section IV: Eligibility for Disability Pension, regarding the Firefighter Cancer Presumption Law.
Attachments: 1. PAC Policy and Procedures Manual Dec 2020 (DM proposed revisions 7-1-24).pdf

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Approve changes to the PAC Manual, Section IV: Eligibility for Disability Pension, regarding the Firefighter Cancer Presumption Law.

 

 

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SUMMARY:

PAC approved changes to the PAC Manual in section IV: Eligibility for Disability Pension

 

Firefighter cancer benefit: pursuant to Florida Statute § 112.1816(3)-(4), if a firefighter is found by the PAC to be permanently and totally disabled due to a diagnosis of cancer, or circumstances that arise out of the treatment of cancer, then the PAC must also find that said disability arose in the line of duty.

 

 

 

APPROPRIATION CODE AND AMOUNT: N/A

 

 

USE OF RESERVE FUNDS: N/A