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IN HB1013

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/21/2011

Primary Sponsor

Floyd Grubb

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Origin

House of Representatives

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes liability protections for "community fast responders" — volunteers who perform CPR, defibrillation, or other emergency services under the direction of a nonprofit corporation

  • Requires counties to adopt an ordinance approving community fast responder services before the liability protections take effect

  • Mandates that community fast responder nonprofit corporations purchase insurance policies providing at least $700,000 in coverage for bodily injury or property damage caused by responders acting within their duties

  • Limits civil liability of individual community fast responders to the insurance coverage amount and prohibits naming them in lawsuits as nonparties or holding them liable for punitive damages

  • Caps the civil liability of community fast responder nonprofit corporations at $5,000,000 for injury or death in any occurrence, with no punitive damages liability; excludes hospitals or hospital-operated entities from these protections

Legislative Description

Immunity for fast responders.

Last Action

First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security, Transportation and Veterans Affairs

2/22/2011

Full Bill Text

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