HB 1655 - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

States that claims made by a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, based on mental conditions or mental disabilities caused by stress, fall within the definition of "occupational disease."

States that there is a prima facie presumption, in the case of firefighters and law enforcement officers who are covered under the state industrial insurance act, that posttraumatic stress disorder is an occupational disease.