BILL NUMBER: SB 301	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to amend Section 33420.1 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to housing and community development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 301, as introduced, DeSaulnier. Housing and community
development: redevelopment: seismic retrofits.
   The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes a redevelopment agency,
for any project undertaken by the agency for building rehabilitation
or alteration in construction, to take those actions within a
project area that it determines necessary, and that are consistent
with local, state, and federal law, to provide for seismic retrofits,
and requires those actions to meet the requirements of specified
buildings codes, with respect to specified types of buildings.
   This bill would revise those building code references.
   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.   (a)    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   that  the agency determines necessary and
 which is   that are  consistent with
local, state, and federal law, to provide for seismic retrofits as
follows: 
   (a) 
    (1)  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   Appendix Chapter A1 of the current
California Existing Building Code  . 
   (b) 
    (2)  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)  and the current California Historical Building
Code  . 
   (c) 
    (3)  For buildings other than unreinforced masonry
buildings and historical properties, to meet the requirements of the
 most current edition of the Uniform Building Code of the
International Conference of Building Officials   current
International Existing Building Code, as applicable  . 

   If 
    (b)     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.