BILL NUMBER: SB 301	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2011

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 amended, 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   building  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 that the agency determines
necessary and that are consistent with local, state, and federal law,
to provide for seismic retrofits as follows:
   (1) For unreinforced masonry buildings, to meet the requirements
of Appendix Chapter A1 of the current California Existing Building
Code.
   (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.
   (3) For buildings other than unreinforced masonry buildings and
historical properties,  for structures subject to the California
Building Standards Code (Title 24 of the California Code of
Regulations), to comply with the provisions of that code, and for all
other structures,  to meet the requirements of the current
International Existing Building Code, as applicable.
   (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.