(Des Moines, Iowa) – Iowa House lawmakers have unanimously passed a bill expanding cancer coverage for emergency responders in Iowa, sending it to the governor. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports House File 969 expands disability and death benefits for firefighters, emergency medical services responders and law enforcement officers from the current 14 cancers covered to all types of cancer. The bill also proposes changes to contribution rates for the Peace Officers’ Retirement, Accident, and Disability System (PORS), the Municipal Fire and Police Retirement System of Iowa (411 System) and the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) — the retirement programs for these public workers — in part to finance this expanded coverage.