The Pennsylvania House voted 190-7 yesterday to prohibit municipalities from charging a fee when a police department is called upon to respond to a motor vehicle accident.
The bill now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate, where lobbyists are confident of relatively easy passage due to overwhelming support in the Democratic-controlled lower chamber.
Angela Zaydon, regional manager for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), said a lobbyist for the state municipalities made some half-hearted opposition to the measure at a House hearing earlier this year.
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