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2023 SESSION
HB 2451 Firefighters; training program on risks of electric vehicle fires.
Introduced by: Israel D. O'Quinn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Firefighters; training; electric vehicle fires. Directs the Executive Director of the Department of Fire Programs to develop a training program on the risks of fires in electric vehicles and how to safely and effectively manage such fires to be completed by all firefighters, including volunteer firefighters, and requires the Executive Director to make such training program available by July 1, 2024. Effective July 1, 2024, all firefighters, including volunteer firefighters, are required to complete such training program. The bill provides that every person engaged in firefighting activities on July 1, 2024, has until December 1, 2025, to complete such training program.
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/23 House: Presented and ordered printed 23104387D pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2451ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/21/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/20/23 House: Presented and ordered printed 23104387D
- 01/20/23 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/24/23 House: Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/26/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/23 House: Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Read first time
- 02/01/23 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 02/01/23 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/03/23 House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/23 House: Read first time
- 02/06/23 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/07/23 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/15/23 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/16/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/23 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/23 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/23 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2451ER)
- 02/24/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/21/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 87 (effective - see bill)
- 03/21/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087)