Volunteer firefighters, grants for workers' compensation insurance premiums
Volunteer fire departments in Missouri can apply to the state fire marshal for grant money to help pay for their workers' compensation insurance. How much grant money a department can get depends on how many of their volunteer firefighters filed workers' comp claims the year before — fewer claims means a bigger grant, ranging from $500 to $2,000. The grant money can only be used to pay for workers' compensation insurance costs or for a voluntary critical illness benefits pool.
287.245. Volunteer firefighters, for — or critical illness s pool. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1) "Association", s as defined in section 320.300;
(2) "", the state fire marshal selected under the of sections 320.200 to 320.270*;
(3) "Volunteer firefighter", the same meaning as in section 287.243;
(4) "" or "pool", the same meaning as in section 320.400.
2. (1) Any association may apply to the state fire marshal for a for the purpose of funding such association's costs related to workers' compensation insurance premiums for volunteer firefighters.
(2) Any voluntary critical illness benefits pool may apply to the state fire marshal for a grant for the voluntary critical illness benefits pool.
3. Subject to , the state fire marshal may disburse grants to any applying volunteer fire protection association subject to the following :
(1) Associations which had zero to five volunteer firefighters receive from arising out of and in the course of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of drowning victims in the preceding shall be eligible for two thousand dollars in grant money;
(2) Associations which had six to ten volunteer firefighters receive workers' compensation benefits from claims arising out of and in the course of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of drowning victims in the preceding calendar year shall be eligible for one thousand five hundred dollars in grant money;
(3) Associations which had eleven to fifteen volunteer firefighters receive workers' compensation benefits from claims arising out of and in the course of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of drowning victims in the preceding calendar year shall be eligible for one thousand dollars in grant money;
(4) Associations which had sixteen to twenty volunteer firefighters receive workers' compensation benefits from claims arising out of and in the course of the prevention or control of fire or the underwater recovery of drowning victims in the preceding calendar year shall be eligible for five hundred dollars in grant money.
4. Grant money under this section shall only be used for the purpose of paying for the workers' compensation insurance premiums of volunteer firefighters or for the benefit of a voluntary critical illness benefits pool.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2016 S.B. 613 merged with S.B. 700 merged with S.B. 732, A.L. 2021 S.B. 45, A.L. 2023 S.B. 24 merged with S.B. 186) *Section 320.270 was repealed by H.B. 57, 1987.
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