Fire Protection
Alaska 33rd Legislature
Peer Support Counseling Program [SB-103]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
An Act relating to peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies, emergency service providers, and the Department of Corrections.
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Timber Sale: Expedited/salvage/negotiated [HB-104]
[Environmental ]
An Act relating to timber sales.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Fire Protection and Prevention - Sprinkler Systems - Requirements (Melanie Diaz Sprinklers Save Lives Act) [SB-970]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Requiring certain high-rise buildings to be protected by automatic sprinkler systems beginning January 1, 2033; and requiring high-rise buildings that are not protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system to provide conspicuous notice in any lease agreement indicating that the building is not currently protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system and that the building is required to be protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system on or before January 1, 2023.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Fire Protection and Prevention – Sprinkler Systems and Smoke Alarms – Requirements (Melanie Diaz Sprinklers Save Lives Act) [HB-1292]
[Housing ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the installation of smoke alarms in public corridors accessible by units in high-rise buildings; prohibiting a landlord from requiring a deaf or hard of hearing tenant to pay for the cost of a notification appliance or to provide supporting documentation with a written request for a notification appliance; prohibiting a landlord from requiring a tenant to reimburse the landlord for the cost of installing certain smoke alarms; requiring certain high-rise buildings to have automatic sprinkler systems by January 1, 2033; etc.
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Louisiana 2023 Regular Session
Provides relative to the head of the fire protection bureau in the city of Thibodaux [HB-45]
[Public Safety ]
Provides relative to the head of the fire protection bureau in the city of Thibodaux
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Public Safety - Volunteer Company Assistance Fund - Alterations [HB-1252]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Altering the purpose and uses for a loan or grant from the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund to include emergency medical services and emergency medical equipment; altering certain reporting requirements for the Maryland State Firemen's Association; requiring the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to report information on the total of the grants and loans made from the Fund, which volunteer company received the grant or loan and its purpose, certain financial statements, and documentation on actual expenditures; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Lighting - Privately Owned Vehicles of Volunteer Fire Company Members [HB-1253]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing certain members of a volunteer fire company to equip their privately owned vehicles with red and white lights or signal devices.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition [SB-909]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the definition of "public safety officer" to include certain public safety officers employed full time by a State public safety agency for purposes of a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on the dwelling of a public safety officer.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Lighting - Privately Owned Vehicles of Volunteer Fire Company Members [SB-917]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing certain members of a volunteer fire company to equip their privately owned vehicles with red and white lights or signal devices.
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Alaska 33rd Legislature
Pfas: Use For Firefighting, Disposal [SB-67]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
An Act relating to firefighting substances; and providing for an effective date.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program and Fund [HB-1100]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to local governments to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated with lithium-ion battery storage systems installed with solar arrays; requiring the Administration, in consultation with certain entities, to establish certain training and emergency response standards for local governments relating to lithium-ion battery storage systems and solar arrays; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Baltimore County - Property Tax Exemption - Real Property Owned by Fire Company or Rescue Squad [HB-1096]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering a certain exemption from property tax for real property that is located in Baltimore County that is owned by an incorporated, nonprofit fire company or rescue squad by providing that the exemption applies only if the property is used or will be used exclusively for the purposes of the fire company or rescue squad; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2023.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Threat Against State or Local Official - First Responder [HB-978]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Including first responders within the scope of certain prohibitions against making or delivering threats to take the life of, kidnap, or cause physical injury to certain State and local officials; and providing that a violation of the Act is a misdemeanor and punishable by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 or both.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Calvert County - Length of Service Award Program - Benefits [HB-1178]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Public Safety ]
[Veterans ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Community Development ]
Altering a certain benefit amount for certain fire and rescue volunteers; and authorizing the board of commissioners to approve an increase in benefit payment for certain fire and rescue volunteers.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Charles County - Property Tax - Credit for Volunteer Emergency Responders [HB-947]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing the governing body of Charles County to grant, by law, a tax credit against the property tax imposed on the owner-occupied residence of certain emergency responders and their surviving spouses if the federal adjusted gross income of the emergency responder or the unmarried surviving spouse for the immediately preceding taxable years is $150,000 or less; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2023.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Maryland Building Performance Standards – Fossil Fuel Use and Electric–Ready Standards [HB-1134]
[Energy ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Housing ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before January 1, 2024, 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 2023 Regular Session
Electricity - Solar Energy Generating Stations - Fire Suppression [HB-1099]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of a solar energy generating station that uses a battery-based energy storage device unless the device will be, and is designed to be, protected by a certain automatic fire suppression system.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Environment – Office of Recycling – Mattress Stewardship Program – Establishment [HB-930]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2028, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2028, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator; requiring certain producers of mattresses sold at retail in the State or a certain representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Mattress Stewardship Program in the Department of the Environment for approval on or before July 1, 2024; establishing a Mattress Stewardship Advisory Board; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Public Safety - Stationary Energy Storage Systems [HB-1046]
[Public Safety ]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the State Fire Marshal to administer and enforce the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 855 standard for the installation of stationary energy storage systems.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Baltimore City - Residential Real Property - Disclaimed Property and Exemptions From Prepayment [HB-865]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Authorizing Baltimore City to acquire certain disclaimed residential real property of a decedent's estate under certain circumstances; exempting, under certain circumstances, grants of residential real property in Baltimore City from the estate of a decedent to an heir of the decedent and transfers of certain disclaimed residential real property to Baltimore City from certain provisions of law requiring the prepayment of certain real property taxes; etc.