Florida SB 330: Transportation Facility Designations/Lieutenant Ewart T. Sconiers Highway

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Disability Provisions for Firefighters and Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers 
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Defining the terms “employing agency” and “heart disease”; providing that a certain previously conducted physical examination satisfies a requirement for a presumption; authorizing law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers, under a specified condition, to use a physical examination from a former employer for the purpose of claiming a specified presumption, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for SB 330 

 By the Committees on Appropriations; and Community Affairs; and 
 Senator Bradley 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to disability provisions for 
 3 firefighters and law enforcement and correctional 
 4 officers; amending s. 112.18, F.S.; defining the terms 
 5 “employing agency” and “heart disease”; revising 
 6 definitions; providing that a certain previously 
 7 conducted physical examination satisfies a requirement 
 8 for a presumption; deleting obsolete language; making 
 9 technical changes; amending s. 943.13, F.S.; 
 10 authorizing law enforcement officers, correctional 
 11 officers, and correctional probation officers, under a 
 12 specified condition, to use a physical examination 
 13 from a former employer for the purpose of claiming a 
 14 specified presumption; providing a finding and 
 15 declaration of important state interest; providing an 
 16 effective date. 
 17 
 18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 19 
 20 Section 1. Section 112.18, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 21 read: 
 22 112.18 Firefighters and law enforcement or correctional 
 23 officers; special provisions relative to disability.— 
 24 (1) As used in this section, the term: 
 25 (a) “Correctional officer” has the same meaning as in s. 
 26 943.10(2). 
 27 (b) “Correctional probation officer” has the same meaning 
 28 as in s. 943.10(3). 
 29 (c) “Employing agency” has the same meaning as in s. 
 30 943.10(4). 
 31 (d) “Fire service provider” has the same meaning as in s. 
 32 633.102(13). 
 33 (e) “Heart disease” means any organic, mechanical, or 
 34 functional abnormality of the heart or its structures or of the 
 35 coronary arteries. 
 36 (f) “Law enforcement officer” has the same meaning as in s. 
 37 943.10(1). 
 38 (g) “Medical specialist” means a physician licensed under 
 39 chapter 458 or chapter 459 who has a board certification in a 
 40 medical specialty inclusive of care and treatment of 
 41 tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension. 
 42 (h) “Prescribed course of treatment” means prescribed 
 43 medical courses of action and prescribed medicines for the 
 44 specific disease or diseases claimed, as documented by the 
 45 prescribing physician in the patient’s medical records. 
 46 (2)(a)(1)(a) Any condition or impairment of health of any 
 47 Florida state, municipal, county, port authority, special tax 
 48 district, or fire control district firefighter or any law 
 49 enforcement officer, correctional officer, or correctional 
 50 probation officer as defined in s. 943.10(1), (2), or (3) caused 
 51 by tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension resulting in 
 52 total or partial disability or death shall be presumed to have 
 53 been accidental and to have been suffered in the line of duty 
 54 unless the contrary be shown by competent evidence. However, any 
 55 such firefighter, law enforcement officer, correctional officer, 
 56 or correctional probation officer must have successfully passed 
 57 a physical examination upon entering into any such service as a 
 58 firefighter, law enforcement officer, correctional officer, or 
 59 correctional probation officer, which examination failed to 
 60 reveal any evidence of any such condition. Such presumption does 
 61 not apply to benefits payable under or granted in a policy of 
 62 life insurance or disability insurance, unless the insurer and 
 63 insured have negotiated for such additional benefits to be 
 64 included in the policy contract. 
 65 (b)1. If a firefighter did not undergo a preemployment 
 66 physical examination, the medical examination required by s. 
 67 633.412(5) is shall be deemed to satisfy the physical 
 68 examination requirement under paragraph (a), if the medical 
 69 examination completed pursuant to s. 633.412(5) failed to reveal 
 70 any evidence of tuberculosis, heart disease, or hypertension. 
 71 2. If a firefighter underwent a preemployment physical 
 72 examination, the employing fire service provider, as defined in 
 73 s. 633.102, must maintain records of the physical examination 
 74 for at least 5 years after the employee’s separation from the 
 75 employing fire service provider. If the employing fire service 
 76 provider fails to maintain the records of the physical 
 77 examination for the 5-year period after th