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League opposes HB355 public-nuisance expansion and notes competing liability bills
Summary
Deputy directors and legal staff told the LPC that HB355 would broaden private and public-nuisance claims against governments and recommended opposition; League staff also summarized HB79 (restoring EMS immunity, retroactive to 1985) and GRAMA changes that add one-page supplements and clerk duties.
League staff warned members that a package of liability and records bills could materially change municipal exposure and administrative burdens.
"This bill essentially deems any unsheltered homelessness public nuisance," Molly Wheeler, deputy director of the League, said of House Bill 355, which she described as enabling private individuals to bring civil actions against government entities for permits, maintenance or the presence of…
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