A resolution to create a committee to study occupational diseases for firefighters has passed the Georgia Senate and is awaiting potential action in the House of Representatives.
The resolution, sponsored by Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, would form a Joint Peace Officer and Firefighter Occupational Disease Study Committee and recognize that “peace officers, firefighters, and wildland fighters, in the scope of their professions” are subject to diseases, such as hypertension, heart disease, cancer and AIDS.
The committee would contain nine members, with three appointed by the presid...
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