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Committee advances a package of bills updating State Fire Marshal authority, fund reporting and fire prevention code adoption
Summary
In work sessions May 6 the House committee moved three Senate bills (860A, 861 and 862A) to the floor with due‑pass recommendations. The bills together modify the Department of State Fire Marshal's authority, expand the Mobilization Fund definition and require reporting and a publicly accessible base fire prevention code.
The House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans on May 6 held work sessions on a group of related Senate bills affecting the Department of State Fire Marshal and moved each to the floor with due‑pass recommendations.
Staff summaries presented to the committee described the bills as largely housekeeping and clarifying measures. ELPRO/LPRO staff said Senate Bill 860A "modifies the authority of the Department of the State Fire Marshal and its designated representatives regarding fire protection, education, emergency authorities, and investigation, and amends statutes related to the governor's Fire Service Policy Council." The committee also considered Senate Bill 861, which adds grant funds, reimbursements and monies received from judgments and settlements to the State Fire Marshal Mobilization Fund and requires biennial reporting to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means; and Senate Bill 862A, which updates rural fire protection district naming and reporting requirements and directs the State Fire Marshal to adopt a base fire prevention code that is publicly accessible online.
Vice Chair Graber moved each bill to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation. For each motion the clerk called the roll and the motion passed with the committee recording "the motion passes" in the transcript for the work sessions referenced in this excerpt.
Committee members described minimal fiscal or revenue impact in staff summaries; each bill was reported to have left the Senate with near‑unanimous support according to the summaries provided in committee (for example, SB 860A and SB 861 were described as leaving the Senate with 29 ayes and one excused). No substantive amendments or contested floor debate are recorded in the work‑session excerpts provided.
The committee also discussed administrative implementation details in passing (for example, the reporting schedule required by SB 861: a report to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means on fund amounts and expenditures on or before March 31 of each odd‑numbered year). The committee closed the work sessions and prepared the bills for the House floor with due‑pass recommendations in the transcript excerpt.
