Bill to Give First Responders PTSD Benefits Advances, With Changes

A Florida House of Representatives committee has given its OK to a bill that would allow first responders to receive workers’ compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental injuries. Florida is one of about a dozen states that forbids employees from collecting workers’ compensation benefits for work-related emotional ailments unless they’ve also sustained physical injury. House Bill 227 would change that, roughly a year after another bill tried and failed to do the same thing. Introduced by Rep. Matt Willhite, D-Wellington, in October, HB 227 adv...