CaliforniaCalifornia Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations.
What it does
(1) Existing law authorizes any person adversely affected by any regulation, rules, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of any state agency respecting the administration of any building standard to appeal the issue for resolution to the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law authorizes any local agency having authority to enforce a state building standard and any person adversely affected by any regulation, rule, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of that agency respecting that building standard to appeal to the commission, provided that both wish to appeal the issue for resolution to the commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to accept those appeals only if the commission determines that the issues involved in the appeal have statewide significance.
More detail
This bill would revise and recast those provisions to expand the reasons for which a person can appeal to the commission to include, among other things, a request for approval to use an alternate material. The bill would modify the conditions under which the commission may accept an appeal by removing the requirement that both the local agency and the adversely affected person wish to appeal the issue, and by requiring that certain issues appealed have both statewide significance and that the person seeking the appeal has exhausted all local appeals procedures before appealing to the commission, subject to a certain exception. The bill would require the commission to review those appealed issues with specified stakeholders. The bill would additionally authorize any person to request a code interpretation from the commission relative to the intent of any regulation or provision adopted by the commission. The bill would require the commission to post, on its internet website and in a searchable format, decisions on appeals and code interpretations that it issues.
(2) Existing law requires a local enforcement agency's written rules and regulations that clarify the application of the California Building Standards Code to be made available to the public upon request.
This bill would, instead, require those written rules and regulations to be posted on the agency's internet website in a manner that clearly identifies the rules or regulations as a local interpretation or policy and links those rules or regulations, where applicable, to the related local amendments and express findings.
(3) The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
(4) By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Sep 20Vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom.Latest
- Sep 4Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 27Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6740.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 306 Schultz Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 27From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 27).Minor
- Aug 26Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6646.)
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB306 Schultz et al. By Pérez. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 26Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.Minor
- Aug 26In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Aug 26Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).Passed Senate
- Aug 13Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 13From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13).Minor
- Aug 3In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 2Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 2From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1).Major
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 25From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Minor
- Jun 24
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 15From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.Major
- May 21From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.Major
- 2025
- Jun 23From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.Major
- Jun 10From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.Major
- May 13From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.Major
- Apr 23Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.Minor
- Apr 2In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Apr 1Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 954.).Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 306 Schultz Third Reading Urgency. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 20Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Mar 19From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 19).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 19Coauthors revised.
- Mar 19In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Mar 13Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Mar 12From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended.Major
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 12From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Mar 6Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.Minor
- Mar 5From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.Major
- Feb 18Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.Minor
- Jan 24From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- Jan 23Read first time. To print.Introduced