BILL NUMBER: AB 2697	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Housing and Community Development

                        MARCH 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 18942 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to building standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2697, as introduced, Committee on Housing and Community
Development. Building standards.
   The California Building Standards Law provides for the
promulgation 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 or adoption. Existing law requires
the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the
code in its entirety once every 3 years.
    Existing law requires the commission to publish the text of a
specified provision within the area of the code concerning
single-family residential occupancies with a note specifying that the
regulations may be subject to local government modification.
   This bill would correct an erroneous cross-reference within that
provision.
   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 18942 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   18942.  (a) The commission shall publish, or cause to be
published, editions of the code in its entirety once in every three
years. In the intervening period the commission shall publish, or
cause to be published, supplements as necessary. For emergency
building standards defined in subdivision (a) of Section 18913, an
emergency building standards supplement shall be published whenever
the commission determines it is necessary.
   (b) The commission shall publish the text of Article 2.5
(commencing with Section 115920) of Chapter 5 of Part 10 of Division
104, within the requirements for single-family residential
occupancies contained in Part  2   2.5  of
Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, with the following
note:
"NOTE: These regulations are subject to local government
modification. You should verify the applicable local government
requirements at the time of application for a building permit."
   (c) The commission shall publish the text of Section 116064.2
within Part 2 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.
   (d) The commission may publish, stockpile, and sell at a
reasonable price the code and materials incorporated therein by
reference if it deems the latter is insufficiently available to the
public, or unavailable at a reasonable price. Each state department
concerned and each city, county, or city and county shall have an
up-to-date copy of the code available for public inspection.
   (e) (1) Each city, county, and city and county, including charter
cities, shall obtain and maintain with all revisions on a current
basis, at least one copy of the building standards and other state
regulations relating to buildings published in Titles 8, 19, 20, 24,
and 25 of the California Code of Regulations. These codes shall be
maintained in the office of the building official responsible for the
administration and enforcement of this part.
   (2) This subdivision shall not apply to a city or county that
contracts for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of
this part with another local government agency that complies with
this section.