Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary – June 2021 Congress was busy in June, but not much happened. The wrangling over infrastructure and what should be...

We discussed in prior blogs about the looming issues we felt would be the most important for the electronic security industry that was euphemistically referred to as the “three L’s” of labor, licensing, and low-voltage. These issues continue to be...

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary – May 2021 While Congress continues debating dollars and scope of the next “infrastructure” bill, other issues are being introduced...

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary – April 2021 Congress took some time after its latest round of stimulus bills to focus on some other measures...

Photo (starting from left): Dan Gordon (Gordon Security Systems), Doug Bassett (XFINITY Home), Becky Busby-Maiello (Systems Distributors), Stan Martin (SIAC), John Loud (LOUD Security Systems), Gov. Brian Kemp, Joseph Gullett (GA. representative, District 67), Micah Gravly (Ga. representative, District 67),...

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary – March 2021 Congress was busy in March. And this was not always a good thing. While the Paycheck Protection...

ESA participates in several coalitions on the advocacy and public affairs front. We participate in a connected technology coalition that includes several limited energy associations and large national corporations that work to protect the limited energy segment within the National...

The U.S. Senate approved a two-month extension of a popular U.S. small-business relief program that still has about $79 billion left to distribute, giving companies until the end of May to apply for the forgivable loans. The Senate passed the...

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary – February 2021 The old saying “elections have consequences” is never more accurate than this year as we look at...

In 2019 there were approximately 7.5 million unfilled jobs, many in high skill, high demand trades and professions. Many of our members know firsthand the difficulty they had in finding qualified people to fill thousands of open jobs just in...