HB 1542 — Requiring automated external defibrillators to be available and accessible when work is being performed on high voltage lines and equipment.

What this bill does

Requires an automated external defibrillator to be available and accessible when workers are operating, maintaining, or constructing high voltage lines and equipment or conducting line-clearance tree trimming in close proximity to high voltage lines and equipment.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 4, 2023
  95 yea · 0 nay · 3 not voting
• House — Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 13, 2023
  96 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 31, 2023
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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