Firefighters - As enacted, expands the applicability of the presumption that a firefighter's cancer was caused by the firefighter's employment to include arson investigators. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 50 and T, the official text

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                          PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 600

                                                HOUSE BILL NO. 1489

By Representatives Moon, Stinnett, Howell, Atchley, Tim Hicks, Wright, McCalmon,
Keisling, Crawford, Eldridge, Russell, Carringer, Butler, Sherrell, Reneau, Slater, Lynn,
Clemmons, Powell, Vital, Todd, Travis

                                      Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1616

              By Senators Jackson, Bailey, Gardenhire, Pody, Powers, Reeves, Seal

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7; Title 8; Title 50 and Title 56,
relative to disability benefits for arson investigators.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-51-201, is amended by deleting
from subdivision (d)(4) the language "As used in this subsection (d)" and substituting "As used
in this section"; and by deleting subdivision (d)(4)(B) and substituting:

                    (8) "Firefighter" means a full-time, paid employee of a fire department of this
          state or a political subdivision of this state, including an arson investigator who is
          employed by the Tennessee bureau of investigation or is a sworn deputy of a county
          sheriffs department.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 1489

PASSED:  March 2, 2026

                        CAMER'1WSEXTON,SPEAKER
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                     RANDY MCNA1.\Y
                        SPEAKER OF THE SENA E

00Clk'tl 12> APPROVED this
         t:i,. day of         2026

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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR