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Committee adopts technical fixes and advances life-safety licensing update
Summary
The House Commerce Committee adopted technical amendments and voted to report House Bill 917, a bill to modernize life-safety and property-protection licensing and streamline rules while preserving public safeguards, after testimony from the state fire marshal.
House Bill 917, a measure to update licensing for life-safety and property-protection professions, cleared the House Commerce Committee on April 7 after the panel adopted technical amendments and voted to report the bill favorably.
Sponsor Representative Desotel said the bill is "a common sense update to our life safety and property protection licensing laws," intended to reduce duplicative requirements while maintaining "strong safeguards" for the public. The committee adopted technical amendment set 3,055 before the vote.
State Fire Marshal Bridal Adams, who accompanied the sponsor, told the committee the changes "reduce unnecessary red tape, reflect how the industry operates today, and keep strong safeguards in place to protect the public." Adams offered to answer members' questions and emphasized the bill preserves public-safety standards while improving administrative efficiency.
No members raised substantive objections during committee discussion. Vice Chair Thomas moved to report the bill favorably; with no objections, the committee advanced HB 917 to the next stage.
The bill now moves toward further floor consideration with the committee recommendation. No formal roll-call vote tally was recorded in the committee minutes; the chair announced the bill was "reported favorably."
