2025 bills / H.B. 48
H.B. 48 Wildland Urban Interface Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill requires counties to take steps for property in wildland urban interface areas, including assessing a fee that the county keeps and deposits into a state wildfire prevention fund, and requires counties and cities to adopt state wildland urban interface building standards. It also sets insurer notice rules, creates a state program with coordinators who rate high-risk properties using a triage scale, and sets up a database insurers can access for those evaluations.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires counties to take certain actions related to wildland urban interface property, including assessing a fee
- directs the fee to be retained by a county and deposited into the Wildland-urban Interface Prevention, Preparedness, and Mitigation Fund
- addresses insuring wildland urban interface property
- imposes notice requirements related to insuring wildland urban interface property
- requires counties and municipalities to adopt the wildland urban interface building code standards
- permits the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands (division) to choose not to cover costs of local governments under certain circumstances
- directs the division to establish a program for wildland urban interface coordinators to evaluate, using a triage scale, high risk wildland urban interface property
- addresses actions related to evaluating the high risk wildland urban interface property
- provides for a database to be accessed by certain insurers related to evaluating high risk wildland urban interface property
- authorizes rulemaking
- addresses liability
- makes technical changes
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Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 75 yes, 0 noFinal House vote · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 28, 2025 House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee▶ Watch
- Jan 31, 2025 House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 18, 2025 Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Oct 2, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- 20/2/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch