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Committee passes agency bill creating deputy state fire post and updating fire-safety processes
Summary
The committee unanimously passed an agency bill to create a deputy commissioner for state fire, align hearings, add an appeal mechanism for building-permit rulings, strengthen oversight of deputized local fire marshals, allow immediate evacuation orders for imminent life-safety danger, and expand fire-fatality reporting.
The Public Safety Committee unanimously passed Senate Bill 501, an agency bill the Insurance Commissioner's Office described as streamlining administration and strengthening fire-safety oversight.
Bryce Ralston, director of legislative affairs for the Georgia Insurance Commissioner's Office, told…
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