HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2744        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3742

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Pertaining to Firefighter Disability..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

“Chapter 32: Section 94(c). Massachusetts Firefighters Robert T. Kilduff Cancer Network

Section 94C. (1) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a firefighters cancer network shall be established for the purpose of providing advice, counsel, education, treatment, medical, and spiritual guidance to firefighters afflicted with cancer and to their families.

This cancer network shall be called the “Massachusetts Firefighters Robert T. Kilduff Cancer Network.”

The Robert T. Kilduff Cancer Network shall be funded at inception by transfer of $100,000 in assets from the Critical Incident Stress Management Fund to the “Massachusetts Firefighters Robert T. Kilduff Cancer Fund”