Victoria will once again try and split its fire services into volunteer and career-only services with the re-introduction of a controversial bill into state parliament.

Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville said the bill would be relatively unchanged to the one which was spectacularly scuttled in the upper house when two Liberal MPs used religious reasons to miss parliament on Good Friday, only to return for the crucial vote.

"We want to get this done, we want to move on from this," Ms Neville told reporters on Wednesday.

Ms Neville said the government had gone to November's election with a mandate to bring in the changes, which are also tied to presumptive cancer compensation rights for firefighters in the same bill.

The compensation scheme will be administered through Worksafe and and be backdated to June 1, 2016, for eligible firefighters.

The legislation, if passed, would abolish the MFB and career CFA services and establish Fire Rescue Victoria to serve metropolitan Melbourne, the outer urban fringe and large regional centres.

The new model is expected to come into effect by mid-2020.

The bill was introduced into parliament on Wednesday, to be debated next week.

It will pass the lower house easily with the government's large majority, but the government needs three crossbenchers to support it in the upper house.