Bill > S2965

This bill provides workers' compensation benefits for certain public safety workers who developed illness or injury as a result of responding to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The key provisions include: 1. Establishing a presumption that any illness, injury, or death of a public safety worker caused by or resulting from their participation in the response to the 9/11 attacks is compensable under workers' compensation, regardless of when the claim is filed, as long as the worker has participated in the World Trade Center Health Program. 2. Requiring public safety workers to file a claim within two years of the effective date of the bill or the date they knew or should have known they sustained a permanent disability related to their 9/11 exposure. 3. Mandating the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and other state and local government agencies to notify all active and retired public safety personnel of the presumption and potential benefits under this bill. This legislation aims to ensure that public safety workers who developed health issues from the 9/11 response can access the workers' compensation benefits they are entitled to, even if their claims were previously denied or filed outside the normal statute of limitations.