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Hearing on wildfire risk mitigation bill focuses on neighborhood-based standards to improve insurance access (Senate Bill 85A)
Summary
Senate Bill 85A would direct state agencies to work with insurers and wildfire officials to develop community-based wildfire risk mitigation standards intended to improve insurance affordability; sponsor emphasized voluntary neighborhood cooperatives and insurer-recognized standards.
The House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee held a public hearing April 29 on Senate Bill 85A, which would require the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the State Fire Marshal, in collaboration with the Department of Forestry and insurance-industry representatives, to evaluate and develop community-based wildfire risk mitigation strategies intended to reduce wildfire risk and improve insurance affordability in Oregon.
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