Amended in Assembly April 8, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 2, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 1092


Introduced by Assembly Member Levine

February 22, 2013


An act to add Section 18941.10 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to building standards.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1092, as amended, Levine. Building standards: electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring 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 and adoption. In the absence of a designated state agency, the commission is required to adopt specific building standards, as prescribed. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety once every 3 years.

This bill would require the commission,begin delete as a part ofend deletebegin insert commencing withend insert the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2014, to adoptbegin insert, approve, codify, and publishend insert mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development.begin insert The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and submit the proposed mandatory building standards to the commission for consideration.end insert

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

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 18941.10 is added to the Health and
2Safety Code
, to read:

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18941.10.  

(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insertend insertbegin deleteAs a part of end deletebegin insertThe commission shall,
4commencing with end insert
the next triennial edition of the California
5Building Standards Code (Title 24 of the California Code of
6Regulations) adopted after January 1, 2014,begin delete the commission shallend delete
7 adoptbegin insert, approve, codify, and publishend insert mandatory building standards
8for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure
9for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential
10development.

begin insert

11(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the Department of Housing
12and Community Development shall propose mandatory building
13standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging
14infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and
15submit the proposed mandatory building standards to the
16commission for consideration.

end insert

17(b) Inbegin insert proposing andend insert adopting mandatory building standards
18under this section, thebegin insert Department of Housing and Community
19Development and theend insert
commission shall use Sections A4.106.6,
20A4.106.6.1, A4.106.6.2, and A5.106.5.1 of the California Green
21Building Standards Code (Part 11 of Title 24 of the California
22Code of Regulations) as the starting point for the mandatory
23building standards and amend those standards as necessary.



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