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3 | 3 | LCO No. 2637 1 of 1 | |
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5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6627 | |
6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
7 | 7 | LCO No. 2637 | |
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10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY | |
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13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
14 | 14 | REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th Dist. | |
15 | 15 | SEN. CICARELLA, 34th Dist. | |
16 | 16 | REP. FISHBEIN, 90th Dist. | |
17 | 17 | REP. LINEHAN, 103rd Dist. | |
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22 | 22 | AN ACT REQUIRING ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS TO | |
23 | 23 | CREATE AND DISTRIBUTE GUIDES FOR FIGHTING BATTERY FIRES | |
24 | 24 | TO FIRE DEPARTMENTS. | |
25 | 25 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
26 | 26 | Assembly convened: | |
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28 | 28 | That the general statutes be amended to provide that any 1 | |
29 | 29 | manufacturer that sells electric vehicles to residents of the state shall 2 | |
30 | 30 | create and distribute to each fire department guides for fighting battery 3 | |
31 | 31 | fires and limiting chemical thermal runaway and the reignition of such 4 | |
32 | 32 | fires, which shall be specific to each such electric vehicle and include 5 | |
33 | 33 | information on how to safely store any such electric vehicle that has a 6 | |
34 | 34 | damaged lithium-ion battery. 7 | |
35 | 35 | Statement of Purpose: | |
36 | 36 | To protect firefighters who are called to fight an electrical vehicle fire | |
37 | 37 | when such vehicle is on the road or in storage. |