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

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the nature of nonsubstantive, conforming changes or specify consequences for failing to comply with cost estimates.

Building Standards: Cost Estimate for Compliance

This law requires state agencies proposing new building standards to include an estimate of the cost to comply with these standards. The California Building Standards Commission cannot approve a proposed or adopted standard if it lacks this estimated compliance cost.

What This Bill Does

• Requires state agencies proposing building standards to provide an estimated cost for following those standards.
• Prohibits the California Building Standards Commission from approving or adopting a proposed or adopted building standard if it lacks a completed statement of estimated compliance costs.

Who It Names or Affects

• State agencies that propose or adopt building standards
• The California Building Standards Commission

Terms To Know

Building Standard

A rule set by the state for how buildings should be designed, constructed, and maintained.

California Building Standards Commission

An agency within the Government Operations Agency that reviews and approves building standards in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a state agency fails to provide an estimated cost of compliance.
• It is unclear how this law will affect existing building standards without such estimates.

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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