Fire Protection
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits [HB-76]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Veterans ]
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Building Performance Standards - Fossil Fuel Use and Electric-Ready Standards [HB-212]
[Energy ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Housing ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before January 1, 2026, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all energy demands of the building without the use of fossil fuels and an electric-ready standard for certain buildings.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - Hypertension [HB-217]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are deemed to have hypertension for purposes of an occupational disease presumption for hypertension if certain requirements are met.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - Hypertension [SB-173]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are deemed to have hypertension for purposes of an occupational disease presumption for hypertension if certain requirements are met.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment Standards – Firefighters – Payment of Wages and Payroll Information [HB-205]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance if a county or municipality does not provide the payroll information as required or wages due.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety - Fuel Gas Piping Systems and Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing - Prohibitions and Study [SB-175]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Housing ]
[Small Business ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of non-arc-resistant jacketed corrugated stainless steel tubing; establishing a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a violation of the Act; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and the Office of the State Fire Marshal to conduct a study and make recommendations related to preventing the fire hazards associated with commonly used fuel gas piping systems including gas piping and corrugated stainless steel tubing, in residential and commercial buildings; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information [SB-124]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours, regardless of whether earned or accrued leave was use; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification Program - Establishment [HB-93]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a homeless shelter certification program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for homeless shelters and minimum standards for the protection of the rights of shelter residents; and requiring the operator of a homeless shelter to participate in a certain Homeless Management Information System.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification Program - Establishment [SB-234]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a homeless shelter certification program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for homeless shelters and minimum standards for the protection of the rights of shelter residents; and requiring the operator of a homeless shelter to participate in a certain Homeless Management Information System.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Terminology and Obsolete References - Maryland State Firefighters Association and Related Terms [SB-164]
[Public Safety ]
Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income [SB-30]
[Taxes ]
[Retirement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
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Utah 2025 General Session
Wildland Urban Interface Modifications [HB-48]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Wildland Urban Interface Modifications
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; increases vehicle registration fees. [SB-648]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; funding for fire and emergency medical services. Increases the vehicle registration fee used to provide support for emergency medical services from $4.25 to $6.25 for each pickup or panel truck and each motor vehicle. The bill also creates the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund to provide funding (i) to increase the number of firefighters and emergency medical services personnel to help communities meet industry minimum standards and attain 24-hour staffing to provide adequate assistance
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Louisiana 2024 Regular Session
Creates a task force to study the feasibility of transitioning from the National Fire Protection Association's life safety and construction codes [HR-291]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
Creates a task force to study the feasibility of transitioning from the National Fire Protection Association's life safety and construction codes
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Suspend Uniform Rules For Hb 146 [SCR-20]
Suspend Uniform Rules For Hb 146
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Suspend Uniform Rules For Hb 104 [SCR-14]
Suspend Uniform Rules For Hb 104
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Louisiana 2024 Regular Session
Provides for the governing authority of the St. George Fire Protection District to create the competitive position of deputy fire chief. (gov sig) (RE NO IMPACT EX See Note) [SB-15]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Provides for the governing authority of the St. George Fire Protection District to create the competitive position of deputy fire chief. (gov sig) (RE NO IMPACT EX See Note)
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding [HB-1472]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Transfers of Service [SB-1114]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Authorizing certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System to transfer certain prior service into the State Police Retirement System.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Overtime and Payroll Information [SB-1117]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizing a firefighter or the firefighter's exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance if a county or municipality does not provide the payroll information as required.