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.
Joshua John Comeau First Responder Cancer Benefit Act of 2020
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.
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