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Committee debates criminalizing unpaid rental damage and nonpayment; SB509 fails in committee
Summary
SB509, which would create criminal penalties tied to equipment rental nonpayment and damage, drew extensive testimony from rental operators, prosecutors and judges and failed to pass in committee after members raised concerns about vagueness, duplicative criminal statutes and the line between civil and criminal remedies.
Senate Bill 5 09, proposed by Senator Gary Stubblefield (Senate District 26), would have made certain failures to return or pay for rented equipment, and damage to rented equipment, criminal offenses. The Judiciary Committee considered the bill after extensive testimony from an equipment rental business owner describing recurring unpaid bills and damaged machinery.
Andrew Antaloni, who identified himself as the owner of an equipment rental company in Greenwood, told the committee he had sued a customer for $30,000 in unpaid rental charges…
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