Bill Text: MO HB1921 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a safety study to be conducted before specified entities decrease the number of firefighters or first responders assigned to a fire apparatus pump operation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-26 - Referred: Local Government (H) [HB1921 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2012-HB1921-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1921

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES TORPEY (Sponsor), LARGENT, RIZZO, JONES (89), HINSON, TILLEY, JOHNSON, LICHTENEGGER, HOSKINS, TAYLOR, McCAHERTY AND CROSS (Co-sponsors).

6162L.03I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 320, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to safety studies by the state fire marshal.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 320, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 320.203, to read as follows:

            320.203. Before any municipal fire department located in any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants, any county with a charter form of government and with more than nine hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or any city not within a county decreases the number of firefighters or first responders assigned to each fire apparatus pump operation, the state fire marshal and the department of public safety shall conduct a study to determine whether any safety issues exist relating to assigning fewer than four firefighters or first responders to each fire apparatus pump operation.

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