Video & Transcript Research : 'Uniform Construction Code'
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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Jun 23rd, 2026
Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact
Transcript Highlights:
- As union construction employers, our labor agreements are collectively bargained, and we don't have any
- Chair, members, Scott Governor, on behalf of the Construction Employers Association.
- We have more diverse folks coming into the building and construction trades.
- program, where we went from Black workers participating in the union construction trades at 2%.
- Keith Dunn here on behalf of the State Building Construction Trades Council.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Nov 14th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- . single construction contract that they have.
- doesn't cover the full construction.
- Doesn't cover the full construction.
- Influx of money to finish out the construction.
- So they started the construction; they got another allocation of money from the state to finish the construction
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It's actually used eight times in the state's education code.
- It's actually used eight times in the state's education code.
- It's actually used eight times in the state's education code.
- It's actually used eight times in the state's education code.
- It's actually used eight times in the state's education code.
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- up in the block on page three is Senate Bill 302, which seeks to amend and reenact sections of the Code
- At the bottom of page four, first up is Senate Bill 386, which amends and reenacts sections of the Code
- in this new category, perhaps, is Senate Bill 530, which amends and reenacts three sections of the Code
- It amends and reenacts various sections of the Code of Virginia, repeals several others, all relating
- The delegate from Fredericksburg, Delegate Code. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not live today.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- All these pillars are current commitments that are now codified as part of the Public Utilities Code.
- So the Public Utilities Code is codified and comes from Assembly bills, Senate bills.
- As the CPUC, we have the responsibility to implement what is statutory code on Public Utilities Code.
- As the CPUC, we have the responsibility to implement what is statutory code on Public Utilities Code.
- And we're here to roll up our sleeves and work with you as a constructive partner.
Summary:
The committee held an informational hearing on Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) to examine its history, current operation, and possible future changes in California. Chair Tasha Berner said the hearing was prompted in part by AT&T’s 2023 request for relief from COLR obligations and by broader concerns about public safety, affordability, universal service, and access to modern broadband and telecommunications. The first panel featured a telecommunications expert who traced COLR back to universal service principles and explained how states have handled COLR differently, including full deregulation, limited rural obligations, or transition pathways tied to competition and customer protections. Members asked about affordability, federal and state processes for service withdrawal, and whether COLR remains necessary given modern competition.
CPUC staff then described California’s COLR framework, explaining that universal service rests on access, reliability/quality, and affordability, and that COLR requires carriers to provide basic service, including voice-grade calling, 911 access, relay services, and Lifeline. Staff said AT&T’s application sought relief in nearly all of its territory, but no replacement COLR came forward during the proceeding, and public participation hearings drew thousands of comments and strong concern from rural and vulnerable customers. The CPUC outlined its ongoing rulemaking to reconsider whether the 1996 COLR rules and 2012 basic-service definition still fit current conditions, with workshops and public hearings scheduled and a proposed decision expected later in the year or into 2026. Members pressed staff on geographic outreach, wireless coverage, whether broadband can be part of basic service, public safety during wildfires, and what reporting and complaint processes currently exist.
In the final panel, industry and public-interest witnesses sharply disagreed. A U.S. Telecom representative argued COLR is outdated, costly, and copper-focused, and said reform should allow technology-neutral alternatives such as wireless, fiber, and satellite while preserving reliable voice and emergency access. The CPUC Public Advocates Office countered that COLR remains a necessary public safeguard, especially for rural and low-income customers, and argued that any transition should maintain or improve service, with public benefits such as broadband investment and continued protections for 911, disability access, and affordability. Committee members focused on the difference between an obligation to serve everyone and a mere option to serve, and on whether the Legislature should provide clearer guidance as the CPUC’s rulemaking moves forward.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Transportation Infrastructure Revenue Subcommitee Jun 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And so, for construction in particular, if we don't have a project funded, then we don't move to construction
- We'll continue to get projects through planning and design and on a shelf for construction.
- When we put dollars and cents in the tax code, it does not go with inflation.
- I believe there's a lot of people in this country making a lot of money off construction.
- Um, so this is currently all of our active construction projects.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- The Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council. I'm here to make their report.
- The Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council consists of 17 unions.
- our tax code.
- I kind of feel like this is a good direction in our tax code.
- this is a good direction in our tax code this is a good direction in our tax code capital<03:56:
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 100 Apr 24th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You may notice today we have some people in scout uniforms.
- Senate Bill 109 by Senators Exum and Cutter and Representatives Joseph and Ricks, concerning building code
- and Ricks Representatives Joseph and Ricks concerning<01:31:03.720>
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House military and veterans division approves bill to remove e-pull tab restrictions 2/19/25
Transcript Highlights:
- foundation partners with the high school in assisting our families with shoes, paying for fees, uniforms
- I would suggest the real help they need is in amending the state's tax code, not in placing slot machines
- I would suggest the real help they need is in amending the state's tax code, not in placing slot machines
- I would suggest the real help they need is in amending the state's tax code, not in placing slot machines
- I would suggest the real help they need is in amending the state's tax code, not in placing slot machines
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on House File 733, which would restore electronic pull-tab features such as open-all, free play, bonus games, and similar functions that were restricted in 2023. The bill’s supporters, including representatives of Allied Charities of Minnesota, the American Legion, and a Bloomington school activities foundation, argued that the 2023 changes reduced revenue for charitable gambling operations and, in turn, cut funding for veterans programs, youth sports, food shelves, school needs, and other local community services. Several supporters cited early revenue declines since the new rules took effect, including double-digit drops and one example of a Bloomington site reporting a 29% year-over-year decline overall and a 44% drop in e-tab revenue. They also argued that restoring the features would help charities without meaningfully increasing casino play.
Opponents, including Citizens Against Gambling Expansion and the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association, said the bill would expand slot-machine-like gambling in neighborhood bars and restaurants and increase problem gambling and related social harms. They argued the features in question mimic slot machines, are especially concerning in non-age-restricted locations, and would amount to a major expansion of gambling. The tribal representative also said the 2023 clarification was appropriate, that charitable gambling revenues do not translate efficiently into mission funding, and that tax relief or other policy changes would be better ways to help charities than restoring the disputed features.
The chair reminded testifiers to keep comments neutral and not partisan. After testimony, a member discussion began, with Representative Ray Rower thanking the testifiers and expressing support for their work. The transcript excerpt does not show a final vote or disposition beyond the bill being recommended to be re-referred to the Commerce Finance and Policy Committee.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation Apr 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- data, including a new public dashboard that provides insight into unlawful detainers, filings by zip code
- and the data, the eviction data dashboard, you will find that we have refined the data to the ZIP code
- County... ...refined the data to the ZIP code. I can tell you right now where the hotspots in L.A.
- That said, the judicial branch remains committed to being a constructive partner in addressing statewide
- It's even worse on the construction side.
Summary:
The committee heard budget and workload presentations from the Office of the State Public Defender, legal aid organizations, and the Judicial Branch. OSPD requested permanent funding for positions that had been temporarily funded to implement the Racial Justice Act, explaining that the work has become ongoing and now includes additional Supreme Court briefing, habeas proceedings, investigations, expert analysis, and data requests. The State Public Defender also presented the AB 625 public defense workload report, which found statewide staffing shortages, caseloads above recommended standards, and major gaps in investigators and support staff. Senators asked about racial bias claims, the volume of data requests, and the impact of Prop. 36, and OSPD said it would provide additional written information.
The legal aid panel asked for a $50 million increase to the Equal Access Fund, $20 million to restart homelessness prevention services, and $10 million for health care access work, while also supporting Access to Justice Commission requests for loan repayment assistance, immigrant family preparedness services, and innovation grants. Witnesses described legal aid as homelessness prevention and cited examples involving eviction defense, domestic violence survivors, and immigration detention cases. Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Sergio Tapia discussed eviction data, low tenant representation, and court pilots in Compton and at Stanley Mosk that combine mediation, rental assistance, and legal help. Senators asked for service maps, outreach materials, and more detail on funding needs and federal funding losses.
For the Judicial Branch overview, the Judicial Council and trial court representatives supported the Governor’s proposed budget, including $70 million for trial court operations, $21.7 million for employee health and retirement costs, and funding for appellate counsel, case processing, and courthouse construction. They said rising costs, staffing retention, and interpreter shortages continue to strain the courts, and described efforts to reallocate interpreter funds and recruit hard-to-find languages such as Mixteco. Senators pressed the branch and the Department of Finance on courthouse facilities, noting that the long-term need is far larger than the current budget proposal; Finance said the branch’s facility needs were estimated at about $22.5 billion over 10 years to start 68 projects and $29.4 billion to complete the remaining projects. The committee requested follow-up information on facilities, judgeships, and interpreter needs.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 30th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill will ensure that these investments are matched by policy that speeds housing construction,
- Also, the project shall comply with Sections 7050.5 and Health and Safety Code 5097.98.” “...which includes
- Some of you gave a five-year reprieve on the state building code, and that's awesome.
- I wish that we could roll a bunch of the stuff back in the state building code, perhaps to 2010 or 2005
- Because of environmental hazards that we created constructing a built environment that wasn't good for
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then moved through a long floor session focused heavily on budget trailer bills, labor agreements, housing, environmental review, and several resolutions. Members also introduced visiting guests, including family members, district staff, Mandela Washington Fellows, and UC Berkeley public policy students. Procedural motions were taken up early, including a successful roll-call vote to suspend rules so certain budget-related bills could be heard without reference to file.
The chamber approved several major budget measures. SB 129, the labor trailer bill, passed 56-4 after supporters said it made technical budget adjustments, funded collective bargaining, supported In-Home Supportive Services, and addressed pension and project-related issues. SB 131, the public resources and housing trailer bill, passed 50-3 after extensive debate over homelessness funding, CEQA exemptions, advanced manufacturing, high-speed rail, rural access to funds, tribal consultation, and environmental protections; multiple members voiced support while also urging follow-up changes. The Assembly also adopted SB 139, implementing agreements for professional and operating engineers, by 69-1, and SB 140, implementing the correctional officers’ agreement, by 71-0. Later, AB 130, the housing trailer bill, was taken up on concurrence in Senate amendments after a successful rule suspension; members discussed tribal consultation protections, CEQA reform, prevailing wage, and vehicle miles traveled provisions, with debate continuing as the transcript ended.
The Assembly also concurred in Senate amendments to AB 927, extending the Williams inspection window for certain school districts, which passed 70-0. In addition, ACR 16 naming the 10th Street Bridge the POW/MIA Bridge passed 70-0. AJR 9, urging full and consistent federal funding for the National Park Service, drew broad bipartisan support and passed 66-0 after members highlighted California parks’ economic and cultural importance. HR 47, recognizing the Fourth of July and the Declaration of Independence, prompted extended remarks on democracy, civics, immigration, military service, and community celebrations before being adopted by voice vote with 64 co-authors added. The consent calendar was also adopted 64-0.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That you could whether it's construction, contracts, etc.
- Once the construction is complete, we will need a few months to be able to. to raise a sufficient brood
- Now, on the more Air Force Base are you on construction, are you 5%, 10%, 20% on construction?
- What phase of construction are you at that facility?
- Administrative Code.
NH
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Jun 15th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Mike West, on behalf of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, in support.
- It makes housing and construction in California prohibitively expensive.
- In your construction of the bill, have you looked at what the cost...
- a project decided, hey, we want to do something more than what the state requires, more than what code
- So that's just dealing with the cost of implementing with respect to the cost of construction.
Summary:
The Committee on Emergency Management heard several bills related to public safety, wildfire preparedness, and fireworks regulation. SB 1299, by Senator Arreguín, would place in statute a certification and training framework for fire sprinkler fitters and apprentices after a court decision disrupted prior State Fire Marshal regulations. Supporters said the bill would protect life safety by ensuring qualified installation and maintenance of fire suppression systems, while opponents raised concerns about added costs, housing affordability, and labor-related effects. The committee passed the bill as amended to the Committee on Labor and Employment on a roll call vote, with DeMaio and Hadwick voting no.
SB 1153, by Senator Caballero, would require urban retail water suppliers to incorporate wildfire-specific procedures into emergency plans and clarify that water systems are not designed to serve as wildfire defense systems. Supporters from water agencies and fire organizations said the bill would improve coordination, planning, and ratepayer protection while acknowledging infrastructure limits. Members discussed transparency, backup generators, and whether the bill should require more public disclosure; the author said he would continue working on possible amendments. The committee passed the bill as amended to the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.
SB 828, by Senator Cabaldon, responds to the Esparto fireworks warehouse explosion by requiring fireworks licensees to disclose storage locations, verify local permits, and meet other compliance conditions. The author said the bill was developed with the State Fire Marshal and local public safety partners to close information gaps and improve enforcement. An opposition witness argued the permit-verification requirements could not be met in all jurisdictions, especially for hobby rocketry and small-scale uses, prompting discussion about clarifying different rocket categories and administrative implementation. The committee passed SB 828 as amended to the Committee on Local Government, and the meeting then adjourned after all bills were reported out.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (02/24/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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- that would be responsible for coding that would be responsible for coding every<01:28:51.679>
- They would much welcome one uniform thing.
- in the same way that constructively this bill would do as well.
- in the same way that constructively this bill would do as well.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
ECD Info Briefing - Fri Jun 19, 2026 @ 1:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
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an on all the islands and constructed an on all the islands and constructed - So one of the features of that factbook is it digs down to the zip code level on housing data.
- you can look at essentially housing affordability, rent affordability, all the way down to the zip code
- > affordability all the way down to the affordability all the way down to the zip<01:33:01.200>
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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I own a small business in the city and serve on our local housing commission and land use code update
- So this amendment, um, the way the original bill was constructed, you had to go to a vote of the town
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MN
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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you. approved training for all construction workers.
- Again, this is only for public construction.
- So you can have six electricians on a public construction job and only have one apprentice, and you're
- What you can't do is have three apprentices on a public construction job with just one apprentice.
- We've seen story after story about how we're going to run out of construction workers in the next, I
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hybrid hearing on a large group of bills carried over from the previous session, with Chair Jake Oliveira and House Co-Chair Paul McMurtry outlining the process and limiting testimony to three minutes. The committee heard testimony on several labor and workplace proposals, including bills to harmonize employee definitions to address misclassification (SB 1338/HB 2141), expand bereavement leave (including H. 2189/S. 1354 and related bills), protect collective bargaining rights for certain administrative employees (HB 268/SB 1306), expand commuter transit benefits (HB 2153/SB 1345), regulate employer use of credit reports (S. 1286), and require apprenticeship participation or OSHA-related workplace safety measures on public projects. At the end of the hearing, the chairs read into the record additional bills that did not receive testimony that day.
Supporters of the misclassification bill, including Greater Boston Legal Services and the AFL-CIO, said aligning the employee-status tests across wage, unemployment, and PFML laws would reduce confusion, improve enforcement, and help workers wrongly treated as independent contractors or managers recover benefits and bargaining rights. NAGE and its representative argued that public-sector employees have been improperly reclassified into management titles to weaken unions, and that the bill would force the Division of Labor Relations to review those titles. On bereavement leave, advocates including the Louis E. Brown Peace Institute, a state representative, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, and individual survivors described the impact of sudden loss and homicide on families, saying guaranteed leave would help workers grieve, make arrangements, and avoid losing jobs or custody-related stability. The committee also heard support for commuter benefits as a low-cost way to reduce emissions and increase transit use, and for restricting employer credit checks because of inaccuracies and discriminatory effects.
There was opposition to some construction-related bills. The Associated Builders and Contractors and the Building Trades Employers Association supported apprenticeship training in principle but said current apprentice-to-journeyworker ratios are outdated or misunderstood, and that the bills should be amended or clarified before advancing. The Massachusetts landscape and snow-removal industry strongly supported a snow-liability limitation bill, arguing that hold-harmless clauses and broad indemnification requirements force contractors to assume liability for conditions they cannot control, drive up insurance costs, and threaten business viability. The committee did not take any votes during the hearing, and the session ended with the chairs thanking members, staff, and the public before adjourning.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 May 5th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The amendment is coded DEA 1615. All those in favor say aye. Those opposed nay.
- As amended, the amendment is coded A-1.
- As amended, the amendment to the amendment is coded A-6.
- The amendment is coded A11. I recognize the member from Ramsey, Representative Curran.
- The amendment is coded A18.