A committee in the New Mexico House of Representatives on Thursday voted 3-2 to pass a bill that would give emergency medical technicians and law enforcement officers the same presumption for post-traumatic stress disorder that applies to the state’s firefighters.
The House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee voted along party lines, with Democrats supporting House Bill 6 and Republicans opposed. Republican members of the committee expressed concerns about the fact that the bill doesn’t include any minimum service time before the presumption kicks in, and the possibility th...
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