Committee hears bill to create 14-foot buffer around emergency scenes
Sponsors told the House Public Safety Committee that House Bill 20 would give first responders a 14-foot ‘halo’ at emergency scenes and make violating that buffer a misdemeanor; members debated definitions, enforcement, overlap with existing obstruction statutes and possible amendments.
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Representatives Thomas Hall and Phil Plummer introduced House Bill 20 in the House Public Safety Committee, asking lawmakers to create a 14-foot buffer zone around emergency scenes and to make knowingly refusing to yield that space a misdemeanor.
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