BILL NUMBER: SB 759	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 22, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

    An act to amend Section 7102 of the Labor Code, relating
to safety in employment.   An act to amend Section
1353.8 of the Civil Code, relating to common interest developments.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 759, as amended, Lieu.  Safety in employment:
buildings.   Common interest developments: artificial
turf.  
   Existing law requires a local agency to adopt a specified updated
model ordinance regarding water-efficient landscapes or a
water-efficient landscape ordinance that is at least as effective in
conserving water as the updated model ordinance. Existing law allows
certain water providers to take specified actions regarding water
conservation.  
   The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act provides for
the creation and regulation of common interest developments. That act
provides that a provision of any of the governing documents of a
common interest development is void and unenforceable if it
prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of
prohibiting, the use of low water-using plants as a group, or if it
has the effect of prohibiting or restricting compliance with a local
water-efficient landscape ordinance or water conservation measure, as
described above.  
   This bill would provide that a provision of any of the governing
documents of a common interest development shall be void and
unenforceable if it prohibits, or includes conditions that have the
effect of prohibiting, the use of artificial turf or any other
synthetic surface that resembles grass. This prohibition would not
prohibit an association from applying landscape rules and regulations
established in governing documents that establish design standards
and quality standards for the installation of artificial turf, or any
other synthetic surface that resembles grass, to the extent the
rules and regulations do not prohibit the use of artificial turf or
any other synthetic surface that resembles grass.  
   Existing law establishes safety requirements relating to floors
and walls in buildings under construction or repair. 

   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 1353.8 of the   Civil
Code   is amended to read: 
   1353.8.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a provision of any of
the governing documents of a common interest development shall be
void and unenforceable if it does any of the following:
   (1) Prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of
prohibiting, the use of low water-using plants as a group. 
   (2) Prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of
prohibiting, the use of artificial turf or any other synthetic
surface that resembles grass.  
   (2) 
    (3)  Has the effect of prohibiting or restricting
compliance with either of the following:
   (A) A water-efficient landscape ordinance adopted or in effect
pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 65595 of the Government Code.
   (B) Any regulation or restriction on the use of water adopted
pursuant to Section 353 or 375 of the Water Code.
   (b)  (1)    This section shall not prohibit an
association from applying landscaping rules and regulations
established in the governing documents, to the extent the rules and
regulations fully conform with the requirements of subdivision (a).

   (2) This section shall not prohibit an association from applying
landscape rules and regulations established in governing documents
that establish design standards and quality standards for the
installation of artificial turf, or any other synthetic surface that
resembles grass, to the extent the rules and regulations conform with
the requirement of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a).  
  SECTION 1.    Section 7102 of the Labor Code is
amended to read:
   7102.  Every building that is of reinforced concrete construction,
with reinforced concrete floors, shall have the floor filled in,
either with forms or concrete, on each floor before the beginning of
work upon the walls of the second floor above or the beginning of
work upon the floor of the next floor above.