As the Legislature considers keeping committee hearings accessible on a hybrid model, two public officials showed what’s possible on Monday for speakers who call into hearings from outside the State House.

The Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee, which handles scores of liquor licensing bills each term, opened up a remote hearing that day on a single petition to grant four new liquor licenses for use in the Bolling Building in Nubian Square and one license for the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner.

When bill sponsor Rep. Chynah Tyler was called up to testify, she was with Boston City Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune inside Soleil, one of the restaurant spaces at the Bolling Building that is looking to score an all-alcohol license out of the legislation.

After the pair finished their initial testimony, committee Co-Chair Rep. Tackey Chan suggested “we could take a stroll. In the day of video, you could actually take us around the building if you like. Just pick up and walk,” he said.

Tyler and Louijeune acted as tour guides while Tyler’s laptop camera panned around Soleil and the pair moved toward the entryway.

Their WiFi connection was interrupted as they moved outside, so Chan called on state Sen. Lydia Edwards, who testified in support of the bill (H 5139) while buckled into the front seat of a car. Then it was back to Tyler and Louijeune, now broadcasting from Louijeune’s cellphone outside the entrance to Jazz Urbane Cafe, a restaurant and performing arts venue slated to open in early 2023 that is also seeking one of the proposed new liquor licenses.

“Wow, very rarely do we get a testifier who’s actually in the building that wants the licenses,” Chan said during the hearing. “So we figure, take advantage of the unique opportunity in the world we live in today.”

Louijeune testified that liquor licenses can be “economic drivers for our neighborhoods” and that authorizing new targeted licenses for majority-minority areas like Nubian Square is “one piece of the puzzle” to solve “structural disinvestment.”

“There are 1,448 liquor-related licenses in the city of Boston,” she noted. “These include hotels, bars, stores, clubs, restaurants, breweries, etc., but as a city with a majority of people of color, only 2 percent of those licenses are owned by Black folks,” Louijeune said.