Enacts "Averyana's law" to provide a tax credit for the installation of certain smoke alarms

Showing the cosponsors who are on Agora, A to Z. The official record may list more.

• Democratic1
• Republican1

This bill has cosponsors from more than one party.

Shown in neutral colors by design; Agora is non-partisan.

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Pamela Helming says this is needed

On March 11, 2012, two-year-old Averyana Dale tragically lost her life due to smoke inhalation in a fire in Auburn, NY. It was later determined that the fire was a smoldering fire, which produces a significant amount of smoke, but very little actual flame. Currently there are two types of smoke detectors available in the marketplace, ionization and photoelectric. Ionization detectors are present in about 90% of homes. However, some studies have shown that ionization detectors do not detect smoldering fires as well as those with photoelectric technology. Averyana Dale most likely lost her life because the ionization smoke detector that was present in the home she was in did not alert her to the fire until it was too late. Had a photoelectric detector been in the home, it is considerably more likely she would have been alerted to the smoke sooner and would have made it out safely. This legislation is meant to provide an incentive for homeowners to purchase photoelectric detectors for their homes.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.