File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1103/91 - JUD
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Stone, Green, and Dorman
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Defenses - "Fireman's Rule" Abolished
 
Eliminating, as a defense, the common law doctrine known as the
"Fireman's Rule" which prevents a safety officer from recovering for
injuries the officer sustained or any similar rule that operates to
deny a safety officer recovery in an action at law or authorized by
statute based on negligence of a person in causing injuries to a
safety officer or an owner or occupier of land or premises that caused
harm to a safety officer; and establishing that the Act does not
affect specified other defenses, privileges, immunities, or rights.
Senate Action
- 1/17
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 -      Hearing 1/25 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/6
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
 - 3/7
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/11
 - Third Reading Passed (43-3)
 
House Action
- 3/12
 - First Reading Judiciary
 - 3/13
 - Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/5
 - Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
 - Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
 - Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - AMBULANCES -see also- EMERGENCIES, RESCUE SQUADS
 - CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
 - DAMAGES
 - FIRE PROTECTION
 - LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
 - LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
 - RESCUE SQUADS -see also- AMBULANCES, EMERGENCIES
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Courts and Judicial Proceedings
 - (
 5-309.3 ,
 5-309.3 ,
 5-309.4 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 268337/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 7, 1996      at: 12:27
 Status: Adopted