BILL NUMBER: AB 2362	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 18, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Skinner and Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 33420.1 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to redevelopment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2362, as amended, Skinner. Redevelopment funds: soft-story
building seismic retrofits.
   The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of
redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects
of blight, as defined, in those communities and requires those
agencies to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and to approve a
redevelopment plan for each project area. That law authorizes the
agencies, within a project area and for any project undertaken for
building rehabilitation or alternation in construction, to take those
actions deemed necessary and that are consistent with existing law
to provide for seismic retrofits, as specified.
   This bill would specifically include soft-story buildings, as
defined, as a type of building eligible for seismic retrofits
provided by an agency.
   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 33420.1 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   33420.1.  Within a project area, for any project undertaken by an
agency for building rehabilitation or alteration in construction, an
agency may take those actions which the agency determines necessary
and which is consistent with local, state, and federal law, to
provide for seismic retrofits as follows:
   (a)  For unreinforced masonry buildings, to meet the 
requirements of Chapter 1 of the Appendix of the Uniform Code for
Building Conservation of the International Conference of Building
Officials.   requirements of Appendix Chapter A1 of the
  California Existing Building Code (Part 10 of Title 24 of
the California Code of Regulations). 
   (b)  For any buildings that qualify as "historical property" under
Section 37602, to meet the requirements of the State Historical
Building Code (Part 2.7 (commencing with Section 18950) of Division
13).
   (c)  For buildings other than unreinforced masonry buildings and
historical properties, including, but not limited to, soft-story
buildings, to meet the requirements of the most current edition of
 the Uniform Building Code of the International Conference of
Building Officials   the California Building Code (Part
2 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations)  . For
purposes of this section, a "soft-story building" means a wood frame,
multiunit residential building constructed before January 1, 1978,
where the ground floor of the portion of the structure contains
parking or other similar open floor space that causes soft, weak, or
open-front wall lines.
   If an agency undertakes seismic retrofits and proposes to add new
territory to the project area, to increase either the limitation on
the number of dollars to be allocated to the redevelopment agency or
the time limit on the establishing of loans, advances, and
indebtedness established pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of
Section 33333.2, to lengthen the period during which the
redevelopment plan is effective, to merge project areas, or to add
significant additional capital improvement projects, as determined by
the agency, the agency shall amend its redevelopment plan and follow
the same procedure, and the legislative body is subject to the same
restrictions, as provided for in Article 4 (commencing with Section
33330) for the adoption of a plan.