{"id":9520,"date":"2014-02-06T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:26:15","slug":"senate-considers-bill-expanding-highway-governmental-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2014\/02\/06\/senate-considers-bill-expanding-highway-governmental-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Considers Bill Expanding Highway Governmental Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Senate Local Government and Elections Committee held testimony on Senate Bill 733, a bill that would amend the governmental immunity law to limit the highway defect liability of a governmental agency for bodily injury to a pedestrian or other person who was not traveling in a motor vehicle on the improved portion of a highway, or for damage to the person&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill the plaintiff would have to prove that the governmental agency knew or should have known of the highway defect at least 30 days before the incident. 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