(i) three members from among the members of the state fire prevention and building code council,

(ii) three members one of whom shall represent an organization which serves as an advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing, one of whom shall represent consumers of products designed for the deaf and hard of hearing, and one of whom represents an institution of higher education with expertise in the area of assistive listening technology, who shall be entitled to be reimbursed for necessary travel and incidental expenses out of monies appropriated to the division of housing and community renewal. b. Such advisory board shall, prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-nine, submit to the state fire prevention and building code council:

(i) findings on the extent of existing federal, state and local requirements for assistive listening systems,

(ii) findings on the type, design and use of existing assistive listening systems,

(iii) recommendations for design and installation standards for assistive listening systems intended for places of public assembly, and

(iv) recommendations for capacity standards for places of public assembly which shall be required to install assistive listening systems. c. In developing such recommendations the advisory board shall take into consideration the costs of such systems, the standardization and compatibility of such systems, if the technology permits, and the utilization of such systems by the consumer who is deaf or hard of hearing. Particular attention should be given to the ability of consumers to utilize a single receiver which is compatible in a variety of installations employing the same assistive listening device technology. d. In addition, the advisory board shall ensure, to the extent possible, that the standards developed for the design and installation of assistive listening systems take into consideration the opportunity for competition among manufacturers of the same or various approved systems.