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Sprinkler requirement removed from legislation
“I think they should be (required),” Amanda Taff said Tuesday of sprinklers. She was working at the Anderson Guest House when the fire broke out. Her husband, Glenn Taff, who also was working there, was killed. Amanda Taff suffered burns over 40 percent of her body.
“This should have been done years ago,” said her uncle, James Mathews, of Anderson.
Wilson said his bill sets up a revolving loan fund for the owners of the group homes, with interest rates of 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent and terms of up to 10 years, to put in sprinklers. It also gives the owners of such homes eight years to put in the sprinkler systems.
“We’re bending over backward to try and make sure they don’t go out of business,” Wilson said of the business owners.
Area opponent
Rep. Ed Emery, R-Lamar, was one of the six members of the Missouri House who voted against the bill introduced by Rep. Kevin Wilson, R-Neosho, requiring sprinklers in group homes.
The additional costs of installing sprinklers would be passed on to patients or force homes to limit the number of people they can accept, Emery said in April.
Although supporters of the bill are well-meaning, Emery said, the legislation eventually could deny some people access to care in the homes.
“I just didn’t feel like this, in the long run, would accomplish its intention,” he said at the time.
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