Video & Transcript Research : 'fire code modernization'

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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 26th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

MI

Michigan 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session 26-07-01

Michigan Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1084, a bill to amend the Michigan Liquor Control Code of 1998.
  • House Bill 5807, a bill to amend the Insurance Code of 1956.
  • House Bill 699, a bill to amend the Shopping Reform and Modernization Act.
  • House Bill 699, a bill to amend the Shopping Reform and Modernization Act.
  • The bills are 1.03, a bill to amend the insurance code of 1956.
Keywords: 983, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Feb 20, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 19

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill is about modernizing the way we fund the University of Hawaii.
  • This bill is about modernizing Speaker.
  • This bill is about modernizing the<00:23:05.520> way<00:23:05.600> we<00:23:05.760>
  • marshall bill, and at this point the fire marshall program is moving forward very successfully, and
  • <00:58:29.520> marshall is patterned after the fire marshall is patterned after the fire marshall
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Joint Committee on Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Right now, our tax code is subsidizing asthma and air pollution.
  • On one hand, there are the newly furnished classrooms with sleek and modern elements... With a mix.
  • Managers, but flexible has really become code for burned out. You can't do more with less.
  • Flexibility is code for fewer services, fewer staff, and lower standards. That's not innovation.
  • So two weeks ago, I taught a mass casualty class for a local fire department.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Ways and Means Committee held its final public hearing on the FY26 state budget, with chairs and members emphasizing that public testimony would help shape the budget and asking speakers to keep remarks brief. Committee leaders introduced members, explained the hearing process, and repeatedly thanked residents, students, and advocates for participating. No votes were taken during the hearing. Testimony focused heavily on education funding and the Chapter 70 formula. Students from Amherst, Northampton, Gateway Regional, Chester Elementary, and other districts described budget-driven cuts to electives, special education supports, paraprofessionals, counselors, transportation, and building maintenance. They urged higher Chapter 70 aid, increased minimum aid, rural school aid, and a reopening or restructuring of the funding formula, arguing that current formulas leave many districts unable to meet student needs and force local layoffs and overrides. Other speakers urged funding or protection for a range of programs and facilities, including the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for homicide survivor services, the Museum of African American History, the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and CART/interpreter services, the Access to Counsel housing legal aid program, the Department of Mental Health and Pocasset Mental Health Center, and Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children. One speaker opposed offshore wind-related spending and urged a reset of the state’s energy approach, while another advocated ending the aircraft sales tax exemption. Committee members responded sympathetically to many speakers, asked a few follow-up questions, and several expressed support for maintaining or expanding the programs discussed.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Health Committee Jun 30th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this would effectively turn the bill into requiring just a QR code on the menus.
  • So this would effectively turn the bill into requiring just a QR code on the menus.
  • I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about QR codes.
  • And with the QR code specifically, I also tend to not bring out my phone at a restaurant.
  • Karen Firing. I am a chief pharmacy officer for Western Health Advantage. I'm Dr. Kieran Firing.
Keywords: 988, house, all
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 17th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • leaders of the State Law Enforcement Bargaining Council, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the State Code
  • So that is very first-grade coded for not accepted.
  • I'm sure going into next year, if the feds don't step in as much as possible with the fires, there's
  • Last month, we had extraordinary days with historic fires, with historic fires that we've never seen
  • These fires hurt our land and our people, and it's going to take time to heal.
Bills: LR509, LR510, LR511
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Jun 29th, 2026

Budget and Fiscal Review

Transcript Highlights:
  • program to 2029 and provides clarification, technical cleanup, and necessary updates to the California Fire
  • Service Training and Education Program, the California Fire and Arson Training Program, the Training
  • AB 169, among various changes, supports modernization efforts at the Department of Motor Vehicles through
  • And then there's also a structure for contract code exemptions and then some other issues.
  • get projects in our communities addressed, whether it's an interchange... ...project, whether it's a fire
Keywords: 987, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's focused on mandated relocations and federal code required safety and compliance work on the existing
  • It's focused on mandated relocations and federal code required safety and compliance work on the existing
  • Any questions for the test fire? fire? fire? Okay.<00:16:20.880> All<00:16:20.880> right.
  • Are any questions for the test fire? Are any questions for the test fire?
  • <00:25:02.559> materials replacing them with modern materials replacing them with modern materials
Bills: HF3830, HF3688
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Municipal and County Government (01/23/2025)

Municipal and County Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • our zoning ordinance we have our fire our zoning ordinance we have our fire prevention<00:35:37.560
  • It's usually a lot quicker: just police, fire, public works if they're closing a road.
  • emergency plan your fire emergency plan your fire plan<00:41:01.640> um<00:41:02.359>
  • We keep everything up to code.
  • In one town, the town clerk is the fire chief; they would no longer be able to do that.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Economic Development Jan 13th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm, me as the, we'll call it, you know, Cleaning 101, unless I'm hiring those employees for you or firing
  • Of Jacobs' employees, when you have nothing to do with their hiring and firing or anything about them
  • House Bill 1961 offers a responsible and modern solution.
  • For Missouri residents, providers and employers, HB 1961 modernizes licensure while still keeps...
  • HB 1961 modernizes licensure while still keeping public protections front and center.
Keywords: 959, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (02/05/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am not aware of the IRS code, and I haven't reviewed it.
  • Auto Fire Honda sells me cars, but they do not get nonprofit status.
  • Auto Fire Honda sells me cars, but they do not get nonprofit status.
  • There are illegal aliens under the code, but there's no such thing as an illegal immigrant.
  • Labor is nothing short of modern-day Labor is nothing short of modern-day slavery<04:47:05.240><
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee first held a public hearing and then an executive session on HB 650, a housekeeping-style bill from the Joint Committee on Dedicated Funds. Testimony explained that the bill would remove references to two already-repealed dedicated funds, split the state parks dedicated fund so Cannon Mountain winter activities would be tracked separately from the rest of the parks system, and place a $1 million cap on the robotics education fund so excess money would revert to the general fund. Supporters said the changes were mainly administrative but would improve accounting and avoid timing issues; committee members asked about a typographical error in the bill text and whether the measure was more than housekeeping. The committee later voted 16-0 to recommend HB 650 ought to pass, and then placed it on the consent calendar. The committee also opened a public hearing on HB 585, which would revise the property tax exemption for religious organizations. Representative John Janigian, the sponsor, said the bill was intended to help small churches and other religious groups that own parsonages or worship buildings but no longer have a resident pastor, allowing them to rent space or use property for church purposes without losing the exemption so long as the money is used for church operations, maintenance, or outreach. He described his Salem church’s parsonage being taxed after it was no longer occupied by a pastor, and said the bill would prevent similar burdens on small congregations. Former Representative Betty Gay testified in support, describing prior assessor actions in Salem that taxed church land and buildings very aggressively, while a Municipal Association representative testified in opposition. Committee members raised questions about how terms such as “regularly recognized and constituted denomination” would be defined, whether the bill could be applied consistently to larger denominations with multiple parishes, and whether legislative research should review past treatment of similar cases.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Modern firefighting has changed. Fires today burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than ever before.
  • Why is this fire. It's cancer. Why is this happening?
  • Modern firefighting has happening?
  • Modern firefighting has changed.<00:40:31.920> Fires<00:40:33.119> today<00:40:33.599><
  • Fires today burn hotter, changed.
Summary: The committee met for its sixth meeting, established a quorum, and approved the minutes from the October 21 meeting. The main agenda item was a presentation from Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) leaders and county officials on jail funding and jail-system reform. Speakers said county jail costs have reached crisis levels, citing large and rising general-fund subsidies in counties such as Hardin, McCracken, and Warren, and noting that county general-fund contributions to jail funds have increased by 76% since 2019. KACo outlined a three-part legislative approach for the upcoming session: incentivizing regional jails, clarifying responsibility for pre-trial felony detainees, and redefining the model for housing state inmates in county jails. On regional jails, they proposed one-time state construction funding, statutory changes to allow former county jails to serve as 96-hour holdover facilities, broader participation of jailers on regional jail authority boards, an increased supplement for closed county jails, and a one-time payment for counties that close local jails and join regional facilities. Union County Judge Adam Onan described his county’s savings from contracting with Webster County and said regionalization can reduce costs where feasible. Harlan County Judge Executive Dan Mosley focused on pre-trial felony detainees, saying counties bear the full cost of housing people awaiting trial for long periods, sometimes years, and that pre-trial time is later credited toward state sentences. He argued the state benefits from that credit and referenced prior bills that would have reimbursed counties for time-served credit. Shelley Hampton then proposed replacing the current per diem model for state inmates with contracts requiring the Department of Corrections to pay actual housing costs and to support programming such as substance abuse treatment, cognitive behavioral programming, re-entry services, workforce training, and academics. No votes were taken on the jail proposals, and the meeting ended with the presentation and discussion of the county recommendations.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the fact is that it represents a modern assertion of state sovereignty and privacy in response to
  • And the fact is that it represents a modern assertion of state sovereignty and privacy in response to
  • the biometric identifiers go in the bill, when I was looking at the REAL ID Act and the associated code
  • When the House is on fire, perhaps we should do something.
  • They failed the code, and then they're put out of service.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • While we do recognize there are 500 symbolic fires that we have to be putting out during this week, we
  • And so it depends on the category, their aid code category.
  • And so I can't answer that explicitly, but it really does depend on aid code. Okay.
  • She now delivers groceries and uses code words with families just so they feel safe opening the door.
  • The passage of HR1 marks the most extreme and far-reaching attack on health care access in modern U.S
Summary: The joint informational hearing focused on the impacts of H.R. 1 on California’s Medi-Cal program and on community health effects from recent immigration enforcement actions. Committee leaders said H.R. 1 would sharply reduce federal funding, increase administrative burdens, and worsen access to care, especially for Medi-Cal enrollees, immigrant families, rural communities, and reproductive health patients. The second half of the hearing examined how ICE raids and related federal actions are creating fear, reducing clinic and emergency department use, and disrupting children’s access to schools and early childhood education. Department of Health Care Services Director Michelle Bass outlined the main H.R. 1 provisions affecting Medi-Cal: work requirements, semiannual eligibility redeterminations, shorter retroactive coverage, new cost-sharing, limits on provider taxes and state-directed payments, reduced federal support for emergency and lawful immigrant coverage, and a one-year ban on Medicaid funding for prohibited abortion providers. She estimated millions could lose coverage, with tens of billions of dollars in federal funding at risk. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California warned the defunding provision could force clinic closures, service reductions, and loss of access to family planning, STI testing, and cancer screenings. The California Hospital Association said the financing changes could cut hospital revenue by tens of billions over 10 years and threaten access, especially for rural and safety-net hospitals. The Western Center on Law and Poverty argued the law would increase churn, paperwork, and uninsured rates, disproportionately harming working adults and people experiencing homelessness. Committee members asked about implementation timelines, notification systems, administrative costs, the effect on immigrant eligibility, and whether California could delay or mitigate some provisions. Bass said the state was still assessing federal guidance, planning county and provider outreach, and exploring a possible delay for work requirements and a transition period for provider-tax changes. Members also discussed how state budget actions may need to be revisited in light of H.R. 1, and how California might preserve access through state-only funding or other policy changes. In the second panel, CHIRLA, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and the Children’s Partnership described the health consequences of immigration enforcement. Speakers said raids and data-sharing fears are causing anxiety, trauma, and avoidance of care, with Los Angeles County reporting declines in emergency, urgent care, and clinic visits after enforcement actions. The Children’s Partnership said school and early childhood absences are rising in some communities and that enforcement is undermining children’s emotional well-being and access to education. Members asked for more data and discussed possible state protections, telehealth, mobile care, and legal and policy responses to reduce fear and preserve access to health and education services.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/21/2025)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • factors modernizing trend of factors modernizing trend of non-alcoholic<01:05:22.880> growth<
  • <01:08:53.199> a with that was to to modernize a with that was to to modernize a 40-year-old
  • Um, fire safety.
  • Both Fire Standards and Training and EMS and Fire Safety are supported through the fire fund.
  • transfer to the fire fund is requested. transfer to the fire fund is requested.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Second, we want to continue modernization efforts.
  • Number one, Cal Fire should be 100% funded by a general fund. and if we're not making Cal Fire should
  • Make sure that the General Fund is 100% covering Cal Fire.
  • Megan Hinchliff-Garrig, Eaton fire survivor, here with the Dena Rise Up Coalition.
  • There are fires burning right now. Please help us. Thank you.
Summary: The hearing focused on the governor’s May Revision proposals for transportation, natural resources, climate, and related programs, with the Department of Finance and the LAO presenting competing views on the state’s fiscal condition. Finance said the budget remains balanced over two years, with major climate-bond, water, parks, transportation, DMV, and agriculture proposals, while the LAO argued the state still has a structural deficit and should reject or defer many new discretionary spending items, preserve reserves, and be cautious about ongoing commitments. The LAO specifically questioned the timing and scale of new spending for programs such as Clean California, Healthy Rivers and Landscapes, and the Golden Gate Fields acquisition, and urged more clarity on future obligations and revenue scenarios, including for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. A major portion of the hearing was devoted to the Healthy Rivers and Landscapes proposal for Bay-Delta water quality implementation. Secretary Wade Crowfoot and Finance described it as an enforceable, science-based alternative to a more traditional regulatory approach, with the state’s $25 million request intended to support early implementation, monitoring, habitat restoration, and environmental flows. The LAO countered that the Water Board has not yet adopted the updated Bay-Delta plan, that the proposal may be premature, and that the Legislature should wait for more information on the state’s total funding commitment and the program’s long-term costs. Several members expressed support for the program as a way to reduce conflict and protect water reliability, while others echoed concerns about timing and fiscal exposure. The committee also examined the proposed $125 million Proposition 4 contribution toward acquiring the Golden Gate Fields property for a shoreline park and habitat project. State officials said the acquisition is a time-sensitive, once-in-a-generation opportunity, with an appraised value of $175 million and additional philanthropic and local funding expected to close the gap. Members questioned whether the project had gone through the usual competitive process, whether the site is the best use of scarce park bond dollars, and how public access, habitat, and disadvantaged-community priorities would be protected. The discussion ended without a vote, and the committee moved on to transportation items including Clean California litter abatement, the Games Route Network, homeless encampment coordinators, and DMV modernization and field office proposals, with LAO recommending rejection or delay on several of those requests as well.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Capital Investment Committee 2/11/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • We found a fire station in Maplewood that was 20 years old that wasn't being occupied.
  • about 3.6 million annually in fire about 3.6 million annually in fire protection<00:52:07.160>
  • for the 133rd airlift Wing modernization for the 133rd airlift Wing here<00:52:51.319> in<00:
  • mean there's risk with the fire mean there's risk with the fire department<00:56:06.760> there
  • <00:56:09.839> duth fire fire services for the duth fire fire services for the duth International
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The committee met with a quorum and began with introductions from members and staff, who shared brief personal facts. Chair Franson then announced that the committee would hear the governor’s bonding request for state agencies, starting with the Department of Public Safety. Commissioner Bob Jacobson, BCA Superintendent Drew Evans, and State Patrol Colonel Christina Boich were introduced as the presenters. The Department of Public Safety focused on three capital projects: a new Southern BCA regional office and laboratory, an expansion of the BCA regional office and laboratory in northern Minnesota, and a new Minnesota State Patrol headquarters funded with trunk highway cash. Evans said the BCA’s St. Paul headquarters is severely overcrowded and that demand has grown because of sexual assault kit testing, digital evidence work, drug evidence, and a sharp rise in cybercrime and child exploitation cases. He said the regional facilities would improve turnaround times, reduce travel for testimony and evidence drop-off, expand training access for local law enforcement, and allow the BCA to serve southern and northern Minnesota more efficiently. Members questioned the high cost of the projects, including Representative Skraba’s concern about the per-square-foot cost. Evans responded that the facilities are expensive because they are specialized laboratories, not office buildings, and must include costly equipment, HVAC systems, redundant power, and other lab-specific features; he said retrofitting existing buildings would cost about the same as new construction. He also said the Southern Minnesota project had increased from about $48 million to $68.1 million due to final design changes, larger space needs, and rising construction costs. Representative Sexton asked about training availability, and Evans said the new facility would include a classroom for 40 to 60 students and could be used by other agencies at low or no cost. Representative Hansen asked about regional training centers, and Evans said the BCA uses them for specialized training but still needs this classroom-based regional space. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

January 14, 2026 - 08:00 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • The CMS modernization assessment focused on 4 key areas that will that will summarize for you this morning
  • The agency continues to face as part of the Cgms Modernization Assessment.
  • The assessment identified significant Common Core functionality expected of modern cgms, including strong
  • Modernization can be approached a phased, modular manner, consistent with peer state strategies.
  • Also as the modernization is phases as was presented, I would specific decision points will allow the
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , the ash that irritates your eyes. destroyed but the fires didn't just destroyed but the fires didn't
  • destroy personal possessions the fires destroy personal possessions the fires took<00:16:42.839>
  • is that they don't even tell the fire is that they don't even tell the fire department<00:21:51.320
  • <00:23:14.960> in talking about the horrific fires in talking about the horrific fires in
  • <00:23:27.559> does this brush and make it if fire does this brush and make it if fire does
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Business and Financial Institutions - Room 210; 28 January, 2026: 2:00 PM

Business and Financial Institutions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um uh this bill and to be modernized.
  • so section one deals with um modernizing so section one deals with um modernizing the<00:02:50.080
  • This bill is a modernization and technical amendments bill.
  • Last year, our old money transmitter law was modernized and replaced with the Money Transmitter Modernization
  • you guys last year, the modernization you guys last year, the modernization act.<00:20:20.400>
Summary: The committee took up several banking, real estate, and licensing bills. Senate Bill 20007 would remove the repeal date for Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance authority to conduct joint bank exams with the Federal Reserve, after testimony that the program has been successful; it was passed out on a do-pass motion. Senate Bill 2011, extending the repeal date for the Mississippi Debt Management Services Act by three years, was also passed out. Senate Bill 2383, a banking modernization bill, was explained as updating definitions and procedures, including treating ITMs like ATMs, allowing state banks to approve dividends without prior regulatory approval if in good standing, streamlining articles-of-incorporation amendments by making the banking commissioner the final approver, and eliminating parity-request requirements for certain public welfare investments; it was passed out as a committee substitute. The committee then considered Senate Bill 2711, which would update residential mortgage lending recordkeeping and disclosure language under the SAFE Act to remove obsolete federal references and better fit manufactured-home lending; it was passed out as a committee substitute. Senate Bill 2706, a professional engineers and surveyors bill, was described as a reorganization and modernization of licensure statutes, with the main policy change expanding who may recommend board appointments, staggering six-year terms, and barring recent disciplinary offenders from board service; after questions about appointment advice-and-consent and term length, it was passed out as a committee substitute. Senate Bill 2713, supported by the Mississippi Association of Realtors, would codify buyer agency agreements and move the required signing deadline from before a home is shown to before an offer is submitted; it was passed out. Senate Bill 2748 would align real estate statutes with current rules, replace certified-mail renewal notices with email notices, and extend the earnest-money submission deadline from one business day to two; it was passed out as a committee substitute. Senate Bill 2715, from the Department of Banking and Consumer Finance, would clarify the new money transmitter law, direct collected fees and penalties to enforcement of the act, add consumer notices and fraud warnings, and create data-security requirements based on a model law; senators questioned the fund balance, annual budget, and the relationship to a separate virtual currency kiosk bill, but the bill was passed out. The final bill on the agenda, 2768, was postponed to the committee’s Monday meeting, and the committee then rose and reported.