Lawmakers and the Comptroller are seeking a state law to give duty disability to Chicago Police Officers and Firefighters who contracted COVID-19 during the earliest part of the pandemic.

For Comptroller Susana Mendoza this is personal – her brother a Chicago Police Officer got COVID before he could get a vaccine and spent months in the hospital, is now permanently disabled, unable to work and now has to suffer financially.

Duty disability would have given him 75% of salary and healthcare benefits. The bill has broad bipartisan support and is expected to pass the House and Senate.