FIRE PREVENTION

Bills and resolutions

Campus Fire Safety Month: establish (see S. Res. 224), S9468 [29JY] (see H. Res. 295), H3893 [24MY]

Colleges and universities: disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect to campus buildings (see S. 1196), S6225 [8JN] (see H.R. 2637), H4073 [25MY]

———provide for fire sprinkler systems in public and private college and university housing and dormitories (see H.R. 128), H75 [4JA]

CPSC: issue standards addressing open flame ignition of consumer products containing polyurethane (see H.R. 943), H794 [17FE]

———promulgate fire safety standards for cigarettes (see S. 389), S1413 [15FE] (see H.R. 1850), H2549 [26AP]

———strengthen regulations concerning the flammability of children's clothing (see H.R. 4185), H9472 [1NO]

Dept. of Education: promote installation of fire alarm detection systems or other fire prevention technologies in public and private college and university housing and dormitories (see H.R. 4460), H11219 [7DE]

Disasters: improve ability of Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior to promptly implement recovery treatments in response to catastrophic events affecting forest lands (see H.R. 4200), H9554 [2NO]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: affirm that a permit is not required in certain circumstances (see H.R. 1749), H2469 [21AP]

Health care facilities: provide loans and grants for fire sprinkler retrofitting in nursing facilities (see H.R. 4491), H11327 [8DE]

National Arson Awareness Week: support goals (see H. Res. 252), H2738 [28AP]

OSHA: update fire protection safety standard to incorporate the current consensus standard for fire protection for styrene cross-linked composites manufacturing (see H.R. 3255), H5740 [12JY]

Public utilities: improve reliability of electric transmission system and reduce the threat of wildfires to electric transmission and distribution facilities of Federal lands (see H.R. 3919), H8387 [27SE]

Taxation: treat automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation (see S. 512), S2004 [3MR]

———treatment of automatic fire sprinkler systems (see H.R. 1131), H983 [3MR]

Letters

Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grants Program funding: Robert A. DiPoli, International Association of Fire Chiefs, S8125 [12JY]

Forest Service firefighting aircraft acquisition relative to wildfire prevention and management: Representative Rohrabacher, H2530 [26AP]

Remarks in House

Aberdeen, NJ: anniversary of Ladies Auxiliary Aberdeen Township Hose & Chemical Co. No. 1, E1187 [9JN]

CPSC: issue standards addressing open flame ignition of consumer products containing polyurethane (H.R. 943), E298 [18FE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: firefighter assistance grant programs funding, H3376-H3379 [17MY], H9107 [26OC]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: affirm that a permit is not required in certain circumstances (H.R. 1749), E742 [22AP]

Forest Service: firefighting aircraft acquisition relative to wildfire prevention and management, H2530 [26AP]

———wildfire management funding through reductions in National Endowment for the Arts funding, H3618, H3646-H3648 [19MY]

Health care facilities: provide loans and grants for fire sprinkler retrofitting in nursing facilities (H.R. 4491), E2501 [8DE]

Holt, Julia: Tennessee Safety Education Hero Award recipient, E569 [7AP]

Sacco, George: International Code Council Foundation Silent Defender award recipient, E1227 [14JN]

Remarks in Senate

Colleges and universities: disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect to campus buildings (S. 1196), S6228 [8JN]

CPSC: promulgate fire safety standards for cigarettes (S. 389), S1430 [15FE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program funding, S8124-S8126 [12JY]

Taxation: treat automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation (S. 512), S2021 [3MR]

Texts of

S. 389, Cigarette Fire Safety Act, S1431 [15FE]

S. 1196, Campus Fire Safety Right-To-Know Act, S6229 [8JN]

S. Res. 224, Campus Fire Safety Month, S9537 [29JY]