BILL NUMBER: AB 1879	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act relating to disability access.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1879, as introduced, Beth Gaines. Disability access: State
Architect.
   Existing law requires the Division of the State Architect to
develop and submit building standards regulations, including
regulations to increase accessibility to buildings, structures,
sidewalks, and curbs by persons with disabilities. These standards
are required to be at least as high as those promulgated under the
federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Existing law also requires
the Division of the State Architect to submit proposed amendments to
the California Code of Regulations to the United States Department of
Justice to ensure that California's accessibility building standards
are consistent with federal regulations.
   This bill would require the State Architect to prepare a report
containing all federal and state disability access regulations and
noting any state disability access regulations that are in direct
conflict with federal disability access regulations. This would
require the State Architect to make the report available to the
Governor and the Legislature by January 1, 2014, in the form that the
State Architect decides is the least costly. This reporting
provision would become inoperative as of January 1, 2017.
   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.  (a) The State Architect shall prepare a report
containing all federal and state disability access regulations and
noting all state disability access regulations that are in direct
conflict with federal disability access regulations. The State
Architect shall make this report available to the Governor and the
Legislature no later than January 1, 2014, and shall do so in the
form that he or she determines is the least costly.
   (b) For the purposes of this section, "direct conflict" includes,
but is not limited to, the situation in which federal regulations
impose differing standards than those imposed by state regulations.
   (c) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2017.