SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2532

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11  Senator Webster moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 7, between lines 6 and 7,

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17         Section 5.  Section 112.18, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         112.18  Firefighters and state law enforcement

20  officers; special provisions relative to disability.--

21         (1)  Any condition or impairment of health of any

22  Florida state, municipal, county, port authority, special tax

23  district, or fire control district firefighter or state law

24  enforcement officer caused by tuberculosis, heart disease, or

25  hypertension resulting in total or partial disability or death

26  shall be presumed to have been accidental and to have been

27  suffered in the line of duty unless the contrary be shown by

28  competent evidence. However, any such firefighter or state law

29  enforcement officer shall have successfully passed a physical

30  examination upon entering into any such service as a

31  firefighter or state law enforcement officer, which

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2532

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 1  examination failed to reveal any evidence of any such

 2  condition.  Such presumption shall not apply to benefits

 3  payable under or granted in a policy of life insurance or

 4  disability insurance, unless the insurer and insured have

 5  negotiated for such additional benefits to be included in the

 6  policy contract. As used in this section, the term "law

 7  enforcement officer" includes any state or county law

 8  enforcement officer, correctional officer, or correctional

 9  probation officer, as those terms are respectively defined in

10  s. 943.10.

11         (2)  This section shall be construed to authorize the

12  above governmental entities to negotiate policy contracts for

13  life and disability insurance to include accidental death

14  benefits or double indemnity coverage which shall include the

15  presumption that any condition or impairment of health of any

16  firefighter or law enforcement officer caused by tuberculosis,

17  heart disease, or hypertension resulting in total or partial

18  disability or death was accidental and suffered in the line of

19  duty, unless the contrary be shown by competent evidence.

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21  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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25  And the title is amended as follows:

26         On page 1, line 17, after the semicolon,

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29         amending s. 112.18, F.S.; defining the term

30         "law enforcement officer" for purposes of

31         special provisions relative to disability;

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