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Relating to strict liability for a person in control of hazardous substances
Proposed by the Department of Natural Resources · all agency proposals
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2025
- Done: House committeeMarch 4, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 881
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
AI summary If someone in charge of a dangerous substance causes a hazardous situation, they will now be responsible for paying the state or local government for all reasonable cleanup and monitoring costs. Currently, these people only have to pay for costs that are considered extreme or unusual. This change expands who pays for the state's response to these situations.1
Read the official explanation
This bill imposes strict liability on a person having control over a hazardous substance for the reasonable response, oversight, and monitoring costs expended by the state or political subdivision related to hazardous conditions created by that person. Under current law, a person having control over a hazardous substance is strictly liable for excessive and extraordinary costs expended by the state or political subdivision resulting from responding at and to the scene of a hazardous condition created by that person.
Changed since by amendment S-3120; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named January 22, 2025. On January 27, 2025 it recommended passage.
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