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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The first responder workers’ compensation PTSD bill moved closer to passage this week after committees in each chamber approved the bills. The bill loosens the requirements for first responders to collect workers’ compensation benefits for PTSD when there is no physical injury. On February 26, 2018, the House Governmental…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 80 defines and establishes parameters on direct primary care. The bill had been sitting in its last committee, Appropriations, since October 2017, but was finally heard and passed by that committee on February 27, 2018 without amendment. The bill will now be heard on the Senate floor. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 21, 2018, when the Senate was set to vote on SB 162, the bill sponsor asked to postpone the bill. No explanation for the postponement was given. The Senate put the bill on the calendar again for a vote on February 27, 2018, but the bill…