{"id":6045,"date":"2009-04-05T19:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2009-04-05T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:02:38","slug":"visual-smoke-alarms-sb-1715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/visual-smoke-alarms-sb-1715\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Smoke Alarms (SB 1715)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Smoke Alarms<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 7, 2009<\/p>\n<p>TIME: 9:00 am<\/p>\n<p>ADDRESS:<br \/>\nBetty King room at the Capitol<br \/>\nAustin, Texas<\/p>\n<p>There will be a hearing on SB 1715 on April 7, 2009 (Tuesday) at 9am<br \/>\nat the Betty King room at the Capitol in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bill that would, among others, require landlords in Texas<br \/>\nto provide visual smoke alarms to deaf\/hh occupants\/renters in<br \/>\napartment complexes.<\/p>\n<p>Please come to the hearing this coming Tuesday and SHOW YOUR SUPPORT<br \/>\nFOR THIS BILL! This is so important. Many of you have been waiting for<br \/>\nthis day and this is your chance to ACT and have it turn into reality.<\/p>\n<p>We are working on getting terps provided.<\/p>\n<p> Faye Kuo <\/p>\n<p>Email: fkuo@advocacyinc.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Smoke Alarms DATE: April 7, 2009 TIME: 9:00 am ADDRESS: Betty King room at the Capitol Austin, Texas There will be a hearing on SB 1715 on April 7, 2009 (Tuesday) at 9am at the Betty King room at&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/visual-smoke-alarms-sb-1715\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-1zv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6069,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/visual-smoke-alarms-sb-1715-updated\/","url_meta":{"origin":6045,"position":0},"title":"Visual Smoke Alarms (SB 1715) Updated","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"April 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Visual Smoke Alarms (SB 1715) Updated: Here is new information about the hearing tomorrow (April 7, 2009) for SB 1715 (Visual Smoke Alarm Bill). 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