Subcommittee on Rural Volunteer Firefighter Work Comp

The Economic Affairs Interim Committee decided at its January 2012 meeting to have a subcommittee of Sen. Tom Facey to examine rural volunteer firefighters' workers compensation coverage. Sen. Facey will meet with stakeholders and decide whether to introduce a bill for the 2013 session on the subject.

Meeting Schedule and Meeting Materials

March 23, 2012
Following the Education and Local Government Committee meeting (about 2:30 p.m.)
-- Agenda -- Listen/Watch
-- Yellowstone County mill levies for firefighting in various areas
-- State map for legal entities fighting structure fires
-- Description of firefighting entities by Harold Blattie, MACO
-- Overview of volunteer firefighting issues - staff report
-- NCCI paper on volunteer firefighters
-- Montana State Fund review of questions for vol. firefighters
-- DNRC Cooperative Equipment Agreement, contract, legal memo

June 12, 2012, Room 172
Following the Economic Affairs Interim Committee meeting (about 2 p.m.)