BILL NUMBER: ACR 32	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 28, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lowenthal
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Rendon, Achadjian, Alejo, Allen,
Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom, Blumenfield, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez,
Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Daly, Dickinson, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth
Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Roger
Hernández, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Maienschein,
Medina, Melendez, Mitchell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nestande, Pan,
Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk-Silva, Salas,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Torres, Wagner, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, and
Yamada)
   (Coauthor: Senator Wright)

                        MARCH 12, 2013

   Relative to Building and Safety Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 32, Lowenthal. Building and Safety Month.
   This measure would declare May 2013, Building and Safety Month and
encourage all local governments to recognize the provisions in city
and county government building and safety codes regulating illegal
garage conversions as "Aviles Law."



   WHEREAS, In neighborhoods and workplaces across the State of
California, professionals throughout government and private
industries work to implement building safety solutions that
strengthen resilience and meet community needs; and
   WHEREAS, By designing and implementing state-of-the-art building
safety, energy efficiency, and fire prevention codes and standards,
governments and laws help save lives and prevent disruption in the
wake of disasters and accidents; and
   WHEREAS, Protecting our communities from fires, floods,
earthquakes, severe storms, or other disasters, building safety
professionals play a critical role in making California safe, strong,
and sustainable; and
   WHEREAS, Despite established building codes, a tragedy occurred in
the City of Long Beach on December 14, 2007, in which three young
sisters, Jasmine Aviles, Jocelyn Aviles, and Stephanie Aviles, lost
their lives in a fire that occurred inside a garage that had been
illegally converted into an apartment; and
   WHEREAS, Immediately following the tragedy, the city commenced an
aggressive code enforcement operation led by fire department
officials and building and safety code enforcement investigators to
identify structures that ignore rigid fire and building code
standards to eliminate the use of illegally converted garages as
living spaces; and
   WHEREAS, To educate the public, reinforce the dangers of illegal
garage conversions, and memorialize Jasmine Aviles, Jocelyn Aviles,
and Stephanie Aviles, the City of Long Beach, with the support of the
Aviles family, renamed municipal codes, recognizing those sections
of the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to the abatement of illegal
garage conversions as the "Aviles Law"; and
   WHEREAS, Proper building and safety code enforcement, including
those that regulate illegal garage conversion, may save lives; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature declares May 2013, Building
and Safety Month in the State of California and encourages all local
governments to recognize the provisions in city and county government
building and safety codes regulating illegal garage conversions as
"Aviles Law."