Disability Law

Legislative Roundup

By David A. McCranie, Esq.

Sorry for the lack of posting for the last few weeks.  I'll try to catch up over the next few days.  To begin, let's look at the legislative session which ended on 5/2/2008.  What happened?  Almost nothing.

SB 2548, the bill which contained a number or changes to the law which I summarized here, was never even taken up by committee.

SB 454 and HB 239, bills which would have affected the employee-leasing industry and which I discussed here, also died.

And SB 2314, a bill which would have made cancer a presumptively compensable for condition for firefighters (see this post), met the same fate.

HB 5045, on the other hand, did pass both chambers.  This bill transfers various duties previously assigned to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to the Department of Financial Services.  It awaits the governor's signature and will be effective on 7/1/2008.

Full post as published by Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).