SB 97 North Carolina Senate · 2025-2026 Session

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer.

SB 97 adds stomach cancer (gastric cancer) to the list of cancers presumed to be work-related for firefighters under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. This means firefighters who die from stomach cancer will automatically qualify for line-of-duty death benefits without needing to prove occupational connection. The bill appropriates $500,000 annually from 2025-2027 to cover these new benefits. It takes effect July 1, 2025, applying to qualifying deaths occurring on or after that date.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action Apr 1, 2025

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Filed → Edition 1 · 3 edits

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This diff shows only administrative and formatting changes to Senate Bill 97, which supports firefighters fighting cancer. The bill's substantive text remains unchanged, with only header information, filing dates, and bill tracking numbers being updated.

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Updated filing date from February 13, 2025 to February 17, 2025 and changed bill reference from DRS45044-MRap-34A to S97-v-1

Added 'Rules and Operations of the Senate' as the committee referral with specific date

Reformatted header layout and page numbering in the document

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Committee

Apr 1, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

upper

Feb 17, 2025

Committee

Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

upper

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

Filed

upper

2 primary · 19 co-sponsors