By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefSACRAMENTO, Calif. – Without asking questions of supporters or opponents, members of the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations unanimously passed a bill that would nearly double the amount of time in which dependents of California firefighters and peace officers who die from certain occupational diseases can file for death benefits.Assembly Bill 1035 by House Speaker John A. Pérez, D-Los Angeles, would allow dependents to file claims for deaths caused by cancer, tuberculosis, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections and...
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