BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 5882: Correctional workers/stress
Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting local correctional facility workers.
Summary
- Allows occupational disease workers' compensation claims for local correctional facility workers based on mental conditions from posttraumatic stress disorders.
- Creates a rebuttable presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational disease for local correctional facility workers.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 12, 2026
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Javier Valdez (D-46)
- Introduced
- January 12, 2026 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 4, 2026
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting local correctional facility workers;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Javier Valdez (D-46)
6 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- Referred to Ways & Means.
- Minority; without recommendation.
- Minority; do not pass.
- And refer to Ways & Means.
- LC - Majority; do pass.
- First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
- Prefiled for introduction.
SB 5882 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5882 (2023–24) Prototypical school staffing
- SB 5882 (2021–22) Riparian stock watering
- SB 5882 (2019–20) Homeless encampments/schools
- SB 5882 (2017–18) Fiscal matters T.O.
- SB 5882 (2015–16) Building officials
- SB 5882 (2013–14) Tax preferences
- SB 5882 (2011–12) Local govt employee pensions
- SB 5882 (2009–10) Racial disproportionality