Senate Amendment 3215
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 226, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
1 3 #1. By striking page 1, line 1, through page 2,
1 4 line 3, and inserting the following:
1 5 <Section 1. Section 411.1, Code 2009, is amended
1 6 by adding the following new subsections:
1 7 NEW SUBSECTION. 5A. "Cancer" means prostate
1 8 cancer, primary brain cancer, breast cancer, ovarian
1 9 cancer, cervical cancer, uterine cancer, malignant
1 10 melanoma, leukemia, non=Hodgkin's lymphoma, bladder
1 11 cancer, colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma,
1 12 testicular cancer, and kidney cancer.
1 13 NEW SUBSECTION. 9A. "Infectious disease" means
1 14 HIV or AIDS as defined in section 141A.1, all strains
1 15 of hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, and
1 16 mycobacterium tuberculosis.
1 17 Sec. . Section 411.6, subsection 5, paragraph
1 18 c, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1 19 c. (1) Disease under this section subsection
1 20 shall mean heart disease or any disease of the lungs
1 21 or respiratory tract and shall be presumed to have
1 22 been contracted while on active duty as a result of
1 23 strain or the inhalation of noxious fumes, poison, or
1 24 gases.
1 25 (2) Disease under this subsection shall also mean
1 26 cancer or infectious disease and shall be presumed to
1 27 have been contracted while on active duty as a result
1 28 of that duty.
1 29 (3) However, if a person's membership in the
1 30 system first commenced on or after July 1, 1992, and
1 31 the heart disease, or disease of the lungs or
1 32 respiratory tract, cancer, or infectious disease would
1 33 not exist, but for a medical condition that was known
1 34 to exist on the date that membership commenced, the
1 35 presumption established in this paragraph "c" shall
1 36 not apply.
1 37 Sec. . Section 411.6, subsection 9, paragraph
1 38 a, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1 39 a. (1) If, upon the receipt of evidence and proof
1 40 from the chief of the police or fire department that
1 41 the death of a member in service was the natural and
1 42 proximate result of an injury or disease incurred in
1 43 or aggravated by the actual performance of duty at
1 44 some definite time and place, or while acting pursuant
1 45 to order, outside of the city by which the member is
1 46 regularly employed, the system decides that death was
1 47 so caused in the performance of duty, there shall be
1 48 paid, in lieu of the ordinary death benefit provided
1 49 in subsection 8, an accidental death benefit as set
1 50 forth in this subsection.
2 1 (2) (a) Disease under this subsection shall mean
2 2 heart disease or any disease of the lungs or
2 3 respiratory tract and shall be presumed to have been
2 4 contracted while on active duty as a result of strain
2 5 or the inhalation of noxious fumes, poison, or gases.
2 6 (b) Disease under this subsection shall also mean
2 7 cancer or infectious disease and shall be presumed to
2 8 have been contracted while on active duty as a result
2 9 of that duty.>
2 10 #2. Page 3, line 6, by inserting after the word
2 11 and figure <and 9.> the following: <In collecting and
2 12 reporting data, the system shall provide information
2 13 as to the actuarial cost to the system of the
2 14 requirements of this Act and shall collect data from
2 15 the cities relative to any associated medical,
2 16 insurance, or other costs incurred by the cities as a
2 17 result of this Act.>
2 18 #3. Page 3, line 8, by striking the word and
2 19 figures <January 1, 2014,> and inserting the
2 20 following: <October 1, 2013,>.
2 21 #4. By renumbering as necessary.
2 22 SF 226.H
2 23 ec/cm/25
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