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Committee hears bill to move smoke-detector enforcement to state patrol after families say 2019 law went unenforced
Summary
Senate Bill 5329 would make the Washington State Patrol solely responsible for enforcing a 2019 law requiring sellers to provide smoke detectors; family members of a 2016 fire victim and a nonprofit that installs alarms urged the committee to pass it, saying local officials have not enforced the earlier statute.
Senate Bill 5329, which would make the Washington State Patrol solely responsible for enforcing state requirements on the installation of smoke-detection devices, received a staff briefing and public testimony at the Senate Housing Committee hearing on Jan. 31.
The bill would transfer enforcement authority from local fire officials to the state patrol and require the patrol to develop and share education materials with county fire marshals and other local officials, Bill Fosbury, Senate committee staff, told the committee. “Before you is Senate Bill 5329 related to the enforcement of laws regulating the installation of smoke detection devices,” Fosbury said in his summary.
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Mark O’Lia (21st District), said the measure responds to a 2016 house fire that killed his classmate, Greg Gibson, and to what he described as a failure to enforce a 2019 law requiring…
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