BILL NUMBER: AB 127	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 29, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ammiano, Rendon, Stone, and Williams)

                        JANUARY 14, 2013

   An act to add Section 13108.1 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to fire safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 127, as amended, Skinner. Fire safety: fire retardants:
building insulation.
   Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission to adopt regulations pertaining to urea
formaldehyde foam insulation materials that are reasonably necessary
to protect the public health and safety. Existing law provides that
these regulations may include prohibition of the manufacture, sale,
or installation of this insulation. Existing law also authorizes the
Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and
Thermal Insulation to establish by regulation insulation material
standards governing the quality of all insulation material sold or
installed in the state.
   The California Building Standards Law requires all state agencies
that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the
building standard to the California Building Standards Commission
for approval or adoption. Existing law requires the commission to
receive proposed building standards from state agencies for
consideration in an 18-month code adoption cycle. Existing law
requires the commission to adopt, approve, codify, update, and
publish green building standards applicable to a particular
occupancy, if no state agency has the authority or expertise to
propose green building standards for those occupancies.
   This bill would require the State Fire Marshal, in consultation
with the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings,
and Thermal Insulation  and the Department of Toxic Substances
Control  , to, by  January   July  1,
2015, propose for  adoption   consideration
 by the commission updated  insulation  flammability
standards that accomplish certain things, including maintaining
overall building fire safety while giving full consideration to the
long-term human and ecological health impacts associated with
chemical flame retardants.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 13108.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   13108.1.  The State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Bureau
of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal
Insulation  and the Department of Toxic Substances Control 
, shall, by  January   July  1, 2015,
propose for  adoption   consideration  by
the California Building Standards Commission  ,   at the
sole discretion of the commission,  updated  insulation
 flammability standards that accomplish both of the following:
   (1) Maintain overall building fire safety while giving full
consideration to the long-term human and ecological health impacts
associated with chemical flame retardants.
   (2) Ensure that there is adequate protection from fires that
travel between walls and into confined areas, including crawl spaces
and attics, for occupants of the building and any firefighters who
may be in the building during a fire.