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House approves pared-down paratransit bill to improve emergency communications
Summary
House Bill 10-07, which the House approved on second reading, directs improved communications and data-sharing between paratransit providers and emergency preparedness officials to aid evacuations and disaster planning; sponsors said the bill was deliberately narrowed to limit costs and burdens.
House members passed House Bill 10-07 after committee amendments and floor debate that framed the bill as a limited, cost-conscious step to improve emergency planning for paratransit users.
Representative Froelich, sponsor of the measure, said the bill grew from requests by the disability community to standardize paratransit across Colorado and ‘‘asked for communications between emergency preparedness, and, paratransit, gross…
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