Building standards: approval or adoption: cost of compliance estimate.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how the lack of a cost estimate will impact the timeline for approving or adopting new building rules, leaving this as an open question.

Building Standards: Cost Estimate for Compliance

This law requires that before a new building rule can be approved or adopted by the California Building Standards Commission, there must be an estimate of how much it will cost to follow the rule.

What This Bill Does

• Requires state agencies proposing new or amended building rules to include an estimated cost of compliance in their initial statement of reasons.
• Prohibits the California Building Standards Commission from approving or adopting a proposed building standard if there is no completed estimate of compliance costs.
• Includes nonsubstantive, conforming changes to make the law clearer.

Who It Names or Affects

• State agencies proposing new or amended building rules
• The California Building Standards Commission

Terms To Know

Building standard

A rule that sets requirements for how buildings are designed, constructed, and maintained.

California Building Standards Commission

An agency within the Government Operations Agency responsible for approving or adopting building standards in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens if a state agency fails to provide an estimate of compliance costs.
• It is unclear how the lack of a cost estimate will affect the timeline for approving or adopting new building rules.

Official Summary Text

AB 2044, as introduced, Petrie-Norris.
Building standards: approval or adoption: cost of compliance estimate.
Existing law requires every state agency subject to the Administrative Procedure Act to provide an initial statement of reasons for proposing the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. Existing law requires an initial statement of reasons for a regulation that is a building standard to include the estimated cost of compliance, the estimated potential benefits, and the related assumptions used to determine the estimates, except as specified.
Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Government Operations Agency. Existing law requires any building standard adopted or proposed by state agencies to be submitted to, and approved or adopted by, the commission before codification, in compliance with certain procedures, including, among others, the above-described
requirement that an initial statement of reasons for a regulation that is a building standard include the estimated cost of compliance, the estimated potential benefits, and the related assumptions used to determine the estimates.
This bill, if the commission finds that the initial statement of reasons is submitted without a completed statement of estimated cost of compliance, as specified, would prohibit the commission from approving or adopting the proposed or adopted building standard. The bill would also make nonsubstantive, conforming changes.

Current Bill Text

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