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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1669 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5345 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1669 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. CARPINO, 32nd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING REPORTS ON FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS | |
| 19 | 19 | SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A LITHIUM BATTERY. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That chapter 541 of the general statutes be amended to provide that: 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | (1) If a fire department suspects that a lithium battery was the cause and 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | origin of a fire or explosion, the fire department shall submit a report 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | regarding such fire or explosion and the suspected cause and origin to 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | the General Assembly and the Office of the State Fire Marshal; and (2) 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall (A) collect any such reports, (B) 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | publish on the office's Internet web site any such reports, and (C) submit 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | any such reports to the joint standing committee of the General 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public safety. 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 33 | 33 | To require (1) fire departments to report fires and explosions suspected | |
| 34 | 34 | to have been caused by lithium batteries, and (2) the Office of the State | |
| 35 | 35 | Fire Marshal to maintain and make public any such reports. |