2SHB 1578 — Improving community preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience to wildland fire health and safety impacts in areas of increasing population density, including in the wildland urban interface.
Signed into law — Chapter 385, Laws of 2023
- Sponsor
- Springer
- Introduced
- February 23, 2023
- Status
- C 385 L 23
- Last action
- Effective date 7/23/2023. (May 9, 2023)
What this bill does
Requires the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to complete decadal assessments of areas at significant risk of wildfire, beginning with the decade between July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2035. Requires the DNR to cooperate with and provide support to various local entities to develop public safety evacuation strategies for incorporation into local emergency response plans. Requires the DNR to take certain actions to expand its community resilience programming and associated supporting programs within the wildland urban interface in areas of Western Washington where the DNR determines that risk of wildfires and smoke exposure exist. Requires the DNR to implement a Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Program by July 1, 2024, and establish a structure for a state-sponsored burned area emergency stabilization and response team by December 30, 2024.
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Floor votes
- House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 6, 202395 yea · 0 nay · 3 not voting
- House — Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 17, 202396 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 11, 202349 yea · 0 nay
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