HB1188

The amendment changed two mandatory "must" duties to discretionary "may" duties for law enforcement removing disabled vehicles from roadways, and separately added new authority for removing disabled boats, vehicles, and other watercraft from public waters—effectively broadening the bill to cover water-based removals while making road-based removals optional rather than required.

The amendment removed language about "clarifying duties" and narrowed the bill's focus purely to limiting liability for vehicle removal; it also expanded who can be held responsible for removal costs to explicitly include removal agencies acting on behalf of the state or political subdivisions, and clarified that liability protections apply to those same removal agencies. This STRENGTHENS the liability protections by broadening the shield to cover private removal contractors, not just government agents.

This amendment converted the bill from a Senate Transportation committee engrossed version to an enrolled version by removing all markup language, line numbers, and committee headers, then adding official enrollment signatures and certification pages—this is a purely procedural change that finalizes the bill for executive review without altering its substantive protections for law enforcement and removal agencies.