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House tightens disclosure duty for meth-contaminated properties, adopts reporting requirement
Summary
The House amended and approved HB190 to require ("shall") property owners with actual knowledge of methamphetamine contamination to report the contamination to the government agency responsible for decontamination (identified as the Department of Health in debate); members questioned resource impacts and whether the requirement would delay cleanup.
The Utah House passed House Bill 190, an amendment to the state's methamphetamine-contaminated property disclosure law, on a 44–27 vote after multiple floor amendments. The House substituted language to change an earlier "may report" standard to a mandatory "shall report" where the owner has actual knowledge that the property is contaminated.
Sponsor Representative Lenny Mascaro said the amended bill returns the law to a prior situation while adding the reporting obligation: "The bill now…
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