Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary - December 2020 December ended with the last-minute passage (something that seems to be a trend for multi-thousand-page bills that...

Congress finally acted as 2020 closed to provide a new phase of COVID-19 relief and tax breaks that will help many small businesses. The bill as passed is thousands of pages and includes the general appropriations for the next year....

False alarm fines are historically imposed by local governments to force those who habitually cause them to pay for public safety (police and/or fire) response and incentivize compliance through financial penalties. Fining end users and practicing other measures — such...

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary - November 2020 Congressional activity in November was relatively light due to the run-up for the election and post-election move...

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary - October 2020 The bills introduced and moving in Congress continue to focus on COVID-19. The bottom line is that...

While virtually everyone was focused on the outcome of the national elections, several battleground elections took place in states across the country. Joe Biden is the presumptive winner of the presidential election, however we did not see the Democratic “wave”...

How Becoming Active in ESA Were Building Blocks to State Senate Run To say that the security industry draws people in and demonstrates its value in terms of relationship building with the caliber of people who comprise the industry is...

Every four years we hear something along the line, “this is the most important election of our lifetime.” Well, this may or may not be true for the coming presidential election, but it is worth taking a look at the legislative and regulatory landscape we...

Federal Legislative Summary- September 2020 The House introduced another stimulus package with “The Heroes Act”, HR 8406, that was met with very cold shoulders in the Senate. This 2,154-page bill has many “poison pills” like union pension support that Republicans...

It is now less than one month before the national elections and we vote for the status quo of divided government, a red wave or a blue wave. It will be useful at this point to map out a clear...