Video & Transcript Research : 'building codes'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 24th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

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  • These codes were enacted to regulate the number of residential units that could be built per acre of
  • As a small builder in Houston, we only build a handful of homes every year.
  • We build right now primarily in the city.
  • codes.
  • You hear horror stories about how counties are slowing things down, and we're against building.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 24th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

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  • for LIHT housing projects within no more than 50% of the time typically allotted for residential building
  • The developers operate under strict timelines to close on their financing, which requires a building
  • Members, this bill sets a firmer timeline for the issuance of a denial of a building.
  • I think it'd be helpful to describe our building... ...permitting process.
  • So the way this code is, the local government code, this section, this 212.905, in it, it talks about
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Regulated Industries Feb 10th, 2026

Regulated Industries

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  • And that is SB 1234 on building permits.
  • days or until the next code edition, exempt from building permit requirements any work valued under
  • Code requirements.
  • It does not build new bureaucracy.
  • It does not build new bureaucracy.
Summary: The committee heard and approved several bills. SB 468 would require veterinarians and veterinary technicians to report suspected animal cruelty to law enforcement or animal control and allow release of patient records in good faith; it was reported favorably with support from animal welfare groups. SB 1706 narrows eligibility for the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program to buildings with at least 80% owner-occupied units and residents at or below 80% of area median income, and it also passed favorably. SB 1234 on building permits and inspections was amended extensively to clarify permit exemptions, private-provider rules, and timelines, then reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1260, dealing with building inspections after emergencies, was amended to require state-term contracts for inspection vendors and then passed. SB 822 would require professionally managed community associations above a budget threshold; an amendment raised the threshold to $750,000, added a parcel-count trigger, and allowed direct-hire credentialed managers, after which the bill was reported favorably. SB 1580 would increase penalties for illegal gaming operations, add enforcement tools, and clarify procedures for veterans organizations; after removing a fantasy sports provision, it also passed favorably. The committee also heard from several appointees and reappointees to the Public Service Commission and Florida Gaming Control Commission. Public Service Commission nominees Anna Ortega and Robert Payne were questioned closely about utility hardening projects, ratepayer costs, and the role of the Office of Public Counsel. Gaming Commission reappointee Julie Brown and appointees William Spacola, John DeQuilla, Peter Cutterman, and Tina Rep discussed illegal gaming enforcement, audits, agency operations, and their backgrounds in law, regulation, law enforcement, and public service. Several members raised concerns about contract timing and evidence handling at the Gaming Commission, while others praised the nominees’ experience and service. At the end of the meeting, the committee voted to recommend confirmation of all appointees on tabs 1 through 7. Members then requested favorable placement on the record for specific bills, including SB 468, SB 1234, SB 1260, SB 1580, and SB 1706, and the committee adjourned.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Privileges And Elections Mar 13th, 2026

Privileges and Elections

VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Courts Of Justice Mar 12th, 2026

Courts of Justice

VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Health and Human Services Mar 5th, 2026

Health and Human Services

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  • So we're building the capacity to do that.
  • What we are needing to build that's new is, and I won't—don't think of it as a system.
  • It's not what we're building for Medicaid work community engagement requirements.
  • What we're really building are some capabilities and a front end for the consumer, right?
  • We also have inspectors for life safety codes, so they're looking at building standards.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Labor and Commerce Mar 5th, 2026

Labor and Commerce

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  • must include a device or feature that prevents the device from affecting the electrical system of a building
  • must include a device or feature that prevents the device from affecting the electrical system of a building
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Privileges And Elections Jun 22nd, 2026

Privileges and Elections

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  • As we'll note in Code Section 30-19.9, as we'll note in Code Section 30-19.9, ...Code Section 30-19.9
  • , that is where the code describes the neutral language and 500 words or less for the explainers.
  • Code Section 30-199 prohibits leading questions on ballots and leading language.
  • So let me let everyone know what the email said, what the Code of Virginia says, and why we are here
  • What the Code of Virginia says and why we are here today.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Privileges And Elections Mar 12th, 2026

Privileges and Elections

VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Appropriations Mar 9th, 2026

Appropriations

VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Communications, Technology and Innovation Mar 9th, 2026

Communications, Technology and Innovation

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  • Project Liberty builds open technology and advocates for policies that will build a better internet.
  • So it's only expanding a bit the scope of that data and building on that to allow comprehensive data
  • communication, which goes beyond express advocacy for or against a candidate, which is what the election code
  • regulates and instead it would have covered any... ...or against a candidate, which is what the election code
  • It would alter Code 8.01-TAC-40 to add voice and likeness.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Courts Of Justice Mar 6th, 2026

Courts of Justice

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  • in those code books.
  • I'm looking forward to using the entire code. ...of what I do can be found in those code books.
  • I have never heard somebody say they were excited to be able to use the entire code.
  • I have never heard somebody say they were excited to be able to use the entire code.
  • And managing partner is just code word for HR.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Counties Cities and Towns Mar 6th, 2026

Counties, Cities and Towns

VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Public Safety Mar 6th, 2026

Public Safety

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  • Do you guys have any sort of tips or practices or things that we could do to sort of build resilience
  • we take National Guard forces and federalize them, they may be federalized under different federal codes
  • I'll be glad to provide those to the Chair for the committee's awareness as to what specific federal code
  • Code, Title X, and then that's further enumerated based on the specific operation. Thank you, Mr.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Appropriations Mar 6th, 2026

Appropriations

VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Transportation Mar 5th, 2026

Transportation

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  • kind of check that box, which would then enable what I hope will be—and what I will say—the current code
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Courts Of Justice Mar 4th, 2026

Courts of Justice

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  • calculation no later than June 30, 2029, and every two years afterward, and submit that amount to the Code
  • And I'm not aware of whether complete neglect is in the code.
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Education Mar 4th, 2026

Education

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  • And so this bill inserts our name into the code. All right. Easy enough. Do we have a motion?
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Appropriations Mar 4th, 2026

Appropriations

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  • Bush created a program authorized by Congress and the Code of Federal Regulations, which authorized the
  • And so what this bill would do would be to build on that and to give Virginians the incentive to blow