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Committee advances bill letting State Fire Marshal seek cost recovery from negligent parties
Summary
The Public Safety Subcommittee moved Senate Bill 863 to Ways and Means on June 4. The measure would let the Department of the State Fire Marshal recover fire suppression costs from people found willful, malicious or negligent; revenue impact was described as indeterminate.
The Public Safety Subcommittee voted June 4 to move Senate Bill 863 to the Ways and Means Committee, recommending authority for the Department of the State Fire Marshal to recover suppression costs from a person who was willful, malicious or negligent in the origin or spread of a fire.
The measure defines “actual cost” as the cost incurred or payments made by the…
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