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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1490
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 5880
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF BATTERY -POWERED SMOKE
DETECTORS IN THE STATE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) (1) Except as provided in 1
subsection (b) of this section, on and after October 1, 2025, no person 2
shall distribute, sell or offer for sale any smoke detection and warning 3
equipment that is powered solely by a battery unless such battery is 4
nonreplaceable, nonremovable and capable of powering the equipment 5
for not less than ten years. 6
(2) The provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not apply 7
to any smoke detection and warning equipment that is powered by the 8
electrical system of a building, fire alarm systems with smoke detection 9
and warning equipment, fire alarm devices that connect to a panel, or 10
devices that use a low-power radio frequency wireless communication 11
signal. 12
(b) A person may sell smoke detection and warning equipment that 13
does not meet the requirements of subsection (a) of this section on or 14
after October 1, 2025, if such person (1) possesses such equipment on 15
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October 1, 2025, or (2) has placed an order for such equipment prior to 16
October 1, 2025. 17
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be 18
fined not more than one hundred dollars for a first violation and not 19
more than five hundred dollars for a subsequent violation. 20
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit the sale of smoke detection and warning equipment that is
powered solely by a battery unless the equipment has a nonremovable,
nonreplaceable battery capable of powering the equipment for a
minimum of ten years.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]