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House passes wildfire emergency authority bill allowing state suppression and AG cost recovery
Summary
The Idaho House approved legislation that lets the governor declare emergencies to send state resources to suppress wildfires and directs the attorney general to seek cost recovery; the measure passed 63–6 with one absent.
The Idaho House passed a measure to authorize the governor to declare an emergency and deploy state resources to suppress wildfires — including fires on federal land — and to authorize the attorney general to seek cost recovery through civil action. The House approved the measure by recorded vote, 63–6 with one member absent.
The sponsor, identified in the transcript as the representative from District 9, said the bill "does is if there is a fire, like a lightning strike, and it's in the summer, and it's…
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