HB0192HS001

This amendment adds requirements for stakeholder input in wildfire mitigation plans, requires good faith negotiations before litigation, and modifies liability limitations to exclude claims involving personal injury or death.

• Adds requirement that electric utilities must obtain input from the Wyoming state forestry division, associations representing rural firefighters, and other appropriate federal, state or local fire entities when developing wildfire mitigation plans. (Page 6, after line 21)
• Requires electric utilities and landowners to negotiate in good faith before filing civil actions for wildfire-related claims, with utilities required to respond to landowner damage submissions within 90 days. (Page 8, after line 21)
• Renumbers subsequent subsections from (b) to (c) and (c) to (d) to accommodate the new good faith negotiation requirement. (Page 9, line 1 and Page 10, line 1)
• Modifies the damage recovery limitations to exclude claims based on injury or death of any person from the restriction on noneconomic losses, allowing such claims to proceed beyond economic losses alone. (Page 10, lines 13-14)

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