Construction guidelines for straw-bale structures.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest indicate this is a nonsubstantive change to existing provisions without specifying the exact nature of the changes.

Rules for Building with Straw Bales

This law makes a nonsubstantive change to existing rules about interim provisions related to the use of straw bales in construction.

What This Bill Does

• Makes a nonsubstantive change to existing rules regarding interim provisions that become inactive when new building standards permit the use of straw bales.

Who It Names or Affects

• Building officials and inspectors

Terms To Know

Interim provisions

Temporary rules in place until official construction standards for straw-bale buildings are adopted into the California Building Standards Code.

California Building Standards Code

The set of rules and standards for building construction in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify when new rules will take effect.
• Does not change how straw bales are tested or approved as a material.

Official Summary Text

AB 2738, as introduced, Gabriel.
Construction guidelines for straw-bale structures.
Existing law establishes that certain interim provisions, pending the evaluation of straw bales as a construction material through the normal processes used for the testing and listing of building materials, the determination of construction standards, and the adoption of those materials and construction standards into the California Building Standards Code, shall become inoperative when building standards take effect that permit construction using baled straw as a loadbearing or nonloadbearing material.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provisions described above relating to the operation of laws regulating construction using baled straw.

Current Bill Text

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