Video & Transcript Research : 'ready-mixed concrete'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Environmental Regulation Apr 3rd, 2025

Environmental Regulation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Concrete batch plants and concrete mixing contribute to particulate matter pollution.
  • They do not pose a value judgment on a concrete mix.
  • According to the National Ready Mix Concrete Association, there are already a few companies across Texas
  • So EPD labels incentivize manufacturing to pursue cleaner concrete mixes and production equipment, both
  • We are a ready-mix concrete, asphalt, and aggregate producer located in El Paso, Texas, extending out
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Transportation May 19th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Current axle tire load restrictions are outdated and do not reflect the unique operational needs of ready-mixed
  • concrete trucks.
  • Uh, increased fuel consumption, higher operating costs of concrete delivery.
  • The committee substitute addresses transportation conflicts, code conflicts by allowing ready-mix trucks
  • We currently allow 46,000 on a tandem axle ready mix, uh, concrete truck, uh, but when they add a third
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation May 19th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • little bit of a problem with collection, because when you sell a truck and you take the MSO, and you're ready
  • Current axle tire loader restrictions are outdated and do not reflect the unique operational needs of ready-mixed
  • concrete trucks.
  • delivery. ...to address transportation code conflicts by allowing ready-mix trucks to operate under
  • Currently, we allow a weight of 46,000 pounds on a tandem axle ready-mix concrete truck.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Currently, a concrete batch plant.
  • In addition to regulated air pollutants, concrete crushing facilities...
  • So most of our concrete crushing facilities are authorized under the rock and concrete crushing standard
  • I was getting ready to get there.
  • It's my intent, if it's ready, to have a hearing at the desk tomorrow.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 26th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • What this industry does is bring in aircraft that, as they're getting ready to be processed to another
  • In getting the RFP ready, our consultants have told us that we might get better rates from vendors if
  • ready to leave and move on.
  • Is this going to cost us some additional money to get it ready to do this?
  • Confused about this concept of moving on and ready.
Bills: SB175, SB195, SB196, SB199
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN DEFER, CPN-HOU, CPN, CPN-EDT Public Hearings 02-03-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • ready for some decision- making. ready for some decision- making.
  • The amateur mixed martial arts program. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you.
  • The amateur mixed martial arts >> Correct.
  • The amateur mixed martial arts program. program. program.
  • However, with respect to mixed concern.
Bills: SB2045, SB2354
Summary: The committees first took up SB 2071 on rent-to-own housing. Testimony was generally supportive from HHFDC and Hawaii Realtors, but Sierra Club of Hawaii and others opposed the bill unless it was amended to exclude ceded lands from the 99-year lease provision. Members discussed the scope of ceded versus non-ceded lands and whether an inventory exists. The committees ultimately recommended passage with amendments, including HHFDC’s proposal to make the fixed-price period flexible by tying it to an option period and Sierra Club’s language limiting the program to non-ceded state or county land. They then heard SB 2191 on limited profit housing associations. HHFDC supported the measure, while the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and the Office of the Auditor urged caution about tax exclusions and asked for clearer, more targeted limits and measurable outcomes. The committees adopted amendments to add a statement of purpose, include measurable metrics, apply the tax provisions to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, and delay the effective date to allow for administrative changes. SB 2191 was recommended for passage with amendments. The committees also considered SB 2197, which would have replaced the five-year fixed-price period in rent-to-own housing with an option period set by HHFDC, but deferred it indefinitely because its issues were addressed in SB 2071. SB 2180 on deposits of public funds drew comments from the Hawaii Bankers Association questioning definitions and noting banks are already subject to Community Reinvestment Act requirements; decision-making was deferred to the next day in the CPN committee and to a later date for the housing committee. Finally, SB 2210 on housing discrimination received support from disability advocates and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, which asked for one additional investigator; the committees passed it with amendments adding a blank appropriation for one full-time position and planned to notify Ways and Means for possible re-referral.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • So, the intent of the mixed-income subaccount was to fund mixed-income rental projects for households
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  • What we was proposing that [clears throat] portion of the project be a mixed-income rental project.
  • portion of the project be a mixed-income portion of the project be a mixed-income rental<00:16:16.000
Summary: The House Housing Committee opened its Friday morning hearing by noting potentially catastrophic flooding on the island and acknowledging that some members were absent helping their communities, so quorum for voting was uncertain. The committee then heard testimony on several housing-related measures, with most bills drawing support from housing agencies and community organizations and little or no opposition in the room. On SB 2069 SD2, SB 2177 SD2, and SB 2342 SD2, witnesses largely supported the measures. HHFDC supported SB 2069 and SB 2177, and HPHA supported SB 2342. For SB 2342, HHFDC raised concerns that the bill would alter the Qualified Allocation Plan outside the normal open, public process required by federal law and could exclude stakeholders; Kathy Charities echoed those concerns and also objected to changing point allocations in ways that could raise rents and weaken long-term affordability. Members questioned HHFDC about how the QAP is normally updated, the meaning of the point system, and whether a legislative working group could mandate changes; HHFDC said recommendations would still need public hearing and board approval. The committee also heard SB 2060 SD2, which would create a mixed-income subaccount in the rental housing revolving fund. HHFDC said the subaccount would likely use tier-two funds, estimated at about $100 million total, to support mixed-income projects above 60% AMI, citing Front Street Apartments as a possible example. Members asked about project selection and funding needs. On SB 2544 SD2, OHA opposed the bill’s Chapter 6E-related exemptions and mandatory review timelines, arguing that burial review protections should not be weakened and that the SPEED Task Force process was a better venue for streamlining. The sponsor later clarified that the bill was not meant to eliminate the 60-day review process but to make the deadline clearer. For SB 3011 SD1, which concerns public housing and pet ownership, HPHA and several humane organizations supported the measure, saying it would help low-income residents and seniors keep pets and benefit from animal companionship. HPHA explained its existing pet policy, including deposits, monthly fees, and restrictions, and said the requested funding would support ADA-accessible pet areas and related administration. Finally, on SB 2061 SD2, HCDA supported the bill while OHA opposed it unless protections for Hawaiian Crown and Government lands were strengthened. Committee members questioned the project’s 60/40 split between income-restricted and market-rate units, the 10-year owner-occupancy restriction, and the procurement exemption; the sponsor said the exemption was tied to a real estate transaction and that the project would still use 103D-like solicitation procedures. No votes were taken during the hearing, and several items were left for later action because quorum was uncertain.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • With the ready-mix concrete trucks often face challenges complying with outdated axle and tire load restrictions
  • Federal standards or industry practices create unnecessary barriers for businesses transporting ready-mix
  • SB 1394 would do is amend the transportation code to update weight and tire load restrictions for ready-mix
  • I think where this originated is that the ready-mix concrete permit started in 2013.
  • The concrete ready-mix permit was created to interpret the FESS Act.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Tourism Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill deals with mixed spirit beverages. I want to thank all of... ...beverages.
  • It's almost like having a mixed drink in a can.
  • So that is the ready-to-drink bill that we're addressing here.
  • You can mix these things at whatever strength you want to give them.
  • Uh, but there are mixed beverages all the way up there are mixed beverages all the way up into the 20%
Bills: SB90, SB255, SB268
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

HOU Public Hearing 01-27-2026

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Um they're mixed income sub account.
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  • Our first testifier is HHFDC with comments. between the mixed income sub account between the mixed income
Summary: The committee heard five housing measures, with the chair announcing that SB 2060, SB 2063, SB 2062, and SB 2069 were works in progress and that decision-making would be deferred to February 3. SB 2060 would allow HHFDC, with Finance approval, to transfer money within the rental housing revolving fund and its subaccounts without further legislative authorization, including a transfer to the mixed-income subaccount for FY 2026-2027. HHFDC and other supporters said the change would give the agency more flexibility to move projects forward, while Catholic Charities Hawaii and a testifier from Roars and Cares supported the bill but warned that shifting money away from lower-income housing could weaken efforts to serve households under 80% of area median income and people at risk of homelessness. HHFDC said the fund’s uncommitted balance was about $100 million and that demand exceeded available resources. SB 2063 would revise the mixed-income subaccount by changing project priorities, adding new criteria, allowing transfers within the subaccount without legislative approval, and directing conveyance tax revenues into the subaccount. HHFDC, OPSD, LURF, Hawaii Appleseed, Housing Hawaii’s Future, Stanford Carr Development, and Roars and Cares supported the measure, while Catholic Charities urged the committee to keep rental and for-sale housing policy separate and to use other mechanisms for homeownership. Catholic Charities said the rental housing revolving fund should remain focused on rentals, and that for-sale initiatives should be addressed separately. The chair indicated an intent to defer the bill for further edits. SB 2062 would make the dwelling unit revolving fund equity pilot a permanent HHFDC program, allowing the agency to buy equity in for-sale developments to lower initial purchase prices and require repayment through shared appreciation. HHFDC said the pilot had been successful, with 83 units committed and $7.6 million of the $10 million program cap already committed, and said permanence would let the agency pair the program with DERF loans earlier in project financing. The chair said SB 2069 would be used as the vehicle for amendments to the DERF equity program and related changes. SB 2069 would authorize HHFDC to use existing dwelling unit revolving fund balances for the equity pilot; it drew support from HHFDC and several housing organizations. SB 2070 would create a permanently affordable for-sale housing program by replacing the current 10-year buyback restriction with a resale price cap tied to an appreciation index, which HHFDC said would preserve affordability while allowing owners to build equity. In questioning, senators pressed HHFDC on whether the bill was necessary, whether it would remove first-time homebuyer and other ownership restrictions, and whether the new program was truly “permanently affordable” if not tied to AMI. HHFDC said the current statutory restrictions limit flexibility, that the proposal would expand access to local residents, and that the price cap would be based on about 4.5% annual appreciation. Supporters said the approach would help buyers move up the housing ladder, while some senators expressed concern that it could open the program to owners of multiple properties and that the committee should see sales-velocity data on existing restricted units before proceeding.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Environmental Regulation Apr 24th, 2025

Environmental Regulation

Transcript Highlights:
  • A number of times on similar concrete issues, and I have said time and time again.
  • Where concrete crushing facilities are prohibited from operating. I have witnesses here to speak.
  • We believe a concrete crushing plant doesn't belong near a hospital. It puts our patients at risk.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • like national testing that has to be online remediation that has to be online, and we are going to mix
  • This is about workforce readiness, not mandates, connecting students with real jobs, real skills, and