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Committee adopts bill requiring carbon monoxide alarms in child care facilities
Summary
The House Children & Youth Committee approved House Bill 156 to require carbon monoxide alarms in child care centers and family child care homes, adopting amendment A00112 for placement and definition details; the bill passed 26-0.
The House Children & Youth Committee approved House Bill 156 — sponsored by Representative McNeil — to add a requirement for carbon monoxide alarms in child care centers and family child care homes. The committee adopted amendment A00112 clarifying alarm placement and definitions, and the bill passed by roll call, 26-0.
Representative Tricia McNeil, the bill’s prime sponsor and chair of the committee, told members the measure grew out of a local incident. “I was watching TV and on the local news channel, I saw 32 children and 1 adult being taken ... to ambulances on stretchers because there was a carbon monoxide leak in a…
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