NFPA Journal - Fall 2023 - 22

Dispatches
CODES + STANDARDS
SHORT + SWEET
VOTING MEMBERS AT THE 2023 TECHNICAL MEETING IN
LAS VEGAS TAKE HALF A DAY TO CONSIDER 11 CODES AND
STANDARDS UP FOR DISCUSSION
By Jesse Roman
I
n some years, the annual NFPA technical
meeting stretches across two
full days as members hear debate
and vote on the merits of proposed
revisions to that year's batch of in-cycle
codes and standards. Instead, efficiency was the
name of the game in 2023, as a light slate and a lack
of contentious issues allowed the entire process to
wrap up in just half a day.
" This year, we were done by 1:15 p.m., which is
the shortest tech meeting in my career by a longshot, "
said Dawn Bellis, NFPA's director of standards
administration. " I've sat through some very long
meetings before, but this one was pretty low-key. "
NFPA members who attended the meeting,
held June 22 in a ballroom in the Mandalay Bay
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Convention Center in Las Vegas, reviewed Certified
Amending Motions (CAMs) for 11 standards,
including notable documents NFPA 101®
Code®
, and NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code.
Nearly every standard on the tech meeting docket
had two or fewer CAMs-another anomaly, Bellis
said-and most were dealt with swiftly. Another 23
documents were adopted via consensus before the
meeting because no CAMs were submitted.
The lone exception to the relatively quiet
proceedings were a series of CAMs related to a
proposed new chapter in NFPA 30A, Code for Motor
Fuel Dispensing Facilities and Repair Garages, on
electric vehicle charging at refueling stations. By
contrast, NFPA 101 and NFPA 99-perhaps the
highest-profile and most widely used documents
, Life Safety

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