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Senate Amendment 5662

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 2452 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 17, by inserting after line 7 the
  1  3 following:  
  1  4                      "DIVISION    
  1  5         VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICES PROVIDERS
  1  6    Sec.    .  Section 80.9, subsection 2, Code
  1  7 Supplement 1999, is amended by adding the following
  1  8 new paragraph:
  1  9    NEW PARAGRAPH.  i.  To administer section 100B.11
  1 10 relating to volunteer emergency services provider
  1 11 death benefits.
  1 12    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  100B.11  VOLUNTEER
  1 13 EMERGENCY SERVICES PROVIDER DEATH BENEFIT –
  1 14 ELIGIBILITY.
  1 15    1.  There is appropriated annually from the general
  1 16 fund of the state to the department of revenue and
  1 17 finance an amount sufficient to pay death benefit
  1 18 claims under this section.  The director of revenue
  1 19 and finance shall issue warrants for payment of death
  1 20 benefit claims approved for payment by the department
  1 21 of public safety under subsection 2.
  1 22    2.  a.  If the department of public safety
  1 23 determines, upon the receipt of evidence and proof
  1 24 from the fire chief or supervising officer, that the
  1 25 death of a volunteer emergency services provider was
  1 26 the direct and proximate result of a traumatic
  1 27 personal injury incurred in the line of duty as a
  1 28 volunteer, a line of duty death benefit in an amount
  1 29 of one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid in a
  1 30 lump sum to the volunteer emergency services
  1 31 provider's beneficiary.  A line of duty death benefit
  1 32 payable under this subsection shall be in addition to
  1 33 any other death benefit payable to the volunteer
  1 34 emergency services provider.
  1 35    b.  A line of duty death benefit shall not be
  1 36 payable under this subsection if any of the following
  1 37 applies:
  1 38    (1)  The death resulted from stress, strain,
  1 39 occupational illness, or a chronic, progressive, or
  1 40 congenital illness, including, but not limited to, a
  1 41 disease of the heart, lungs, or respiratory system,
  1 42 unless a traumatic personal injury was a substantial
  1 43 contributing factor to the volunteer emergency
  1 44 services provider's death.
  1 45    (2)  The death was caused by the intentional
  1 46 misconduct of the volunteer emergency services
  1 47 provider or by such provider's intent to cause the
  1 48 provider's own death.
  1 49    (3)  The volunteer emergency services provider was
  1 50 voluntarily intoxicated at the time of death.
  2  1    (4)  The volunteer emergency services provider was
  2  2 performing the provider's duties in a grossly
  2  3 negligent manner at the time of death.
  2  4    (5)  A beneficiary who would otherwise be entitled
  2  5 to a benefit under this subsection was, through the
  2  6 beneficiary's actions, a substantial contributing
  2  7 factor to the volunteer emergency services provider's
  2  8 death.
  2  9    3.  For purposes of this section, "volunteer
  2 10 emergency services provider" means a volunteer fire
  2 11 fighter as defined in section 85.61 or a volunteer
  2 12 emergency medical care provider or volunteer emergency
  2 13 rescue technician defined in section 147A.1 who is not
  2 14 covered as a volunteer emergency services provider
  2 15 under chapter 97A, 97B, or 411.
  2 16    Sec.    .  REPEAL – LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
  2 17    1.  This division of this Act is repealed July 1,
  2 18 2002.
  2 19    2.  It is the intent of the general assembly that
  2 20 the repeal of this division of this Act on July 1,
  2 21 2002, will allow consideration of recommendations
  2 22 relating to this division of this Act to be received
  2 23 by the general assembly from the department of
  2 24 management based on the department's study of the
  2 25 possible implementation of a system to provide
  2 26 retirement benefits and death and survivor benefits to
  2 27 volunteer fire fighters and volunteer emergency
  2 28 medical service personnel." 
  2 29 
  2 30 
  2 31                               
  2 32 KITTY REHBERG 
  2 33 
  2 34 
  2 35                               
  2 36 JERRY BEHN 
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  2 38 
  2 39                               
  2 40 NEAL SCHUERER 
  2 41 
  2 42 
  2 43                               
  2 44 STEVE KING 
  2 45 
  2 46 
  2 47                               
  2 48 RICHARD F. DRAKE 
  2 49 
  2 50 
  3  1                               
  3  2 JACK RIFE 
  3  3 
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  3  5                               
  3  6 MERLIN E. BARTZ 
  3  7 LARRY McKIBBEN
  3  8 SF 2452.508 78
  3  9 mg/as
     

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