BILLS TO WATCH - (amendments are highlighted and in bold) AB 2483 (PENDING (Not yet law) - amended) - Department of Housing and Community Development – Next hearing: August 1, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. To award priority points incentives by 12/31/2023 to the Multifamily Housing Program project applicants that agree to set aside at least 25 units 25 20% of the project’s units, or no more than 50% of the projects units if the project includes more than 100 units for homeless or eligible to receive specialized services. Authorizes the state to contract with agencies/individuals to assist disabled persons in securing their own homes and provide support needed to live in their own homes. Incentives are: 1) Higher loan limits are higher for units designated for people experiencing homelessness. 2) An exemption for project applicants to submit a services plan for units set aside under this sections, so long as the project applicant has completed an executed agreement with a provider for qualifying services to offer services in set aside units. 3) An exemption from services caps the Department imposes. 4) Allowing project applicants to use funds made available under this chapter for creating alternative care sites for projects aligning with PACE or other service space to offer other qualifying services to eligible individuals.
AB 2164 (PENDING (Not yet law) - amended) – Disability Access: Certified Access Specialist Program Expands purpose of Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund to include providing financial assistance to small businesses for the construction of physical accessibility improvements. Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee for fiscal impact analysis. Eliminates collection of $1.00 on 1/1/24 and makes a $4.00 collection indefinite. 90% of the funds are to be retained by the jurisdiction indefinitely and expands the use to provide financial assistance for small businesses for access inspections, renovations and construction. Each city, county, or city and county shall make an annual report, commencing March 1, 2014, to the Division of the State Architect, and, commencing March 1, 2023, to the California Commission on Disability Access, Architect of the total fees collected in the previous calendar year and of its distribution, including the moneys spent on administrative services, the activities undertaken and moneys spent to increase CASp services, the activities undertaken and moneys spent to fund programs to facilitate accessibility compliance, including the total amount of financial assistance provided to small businesses for construction of physical accessibility improvements and the number of small businesses that obtained financial assistance for construction of physical accessibility improvements, and the moneys transmitted to the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund.
AB 1883 (PENDING (Not yet law) – amended) – Public Restroom List: Next hearing: August 1, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Jurisdictions are to complete a list of inventory of accessible, permanent public restrooms owned and maintained (either directly or via contract) by 7/1/23. The findings must be reported to the State Department of Public Health and make the information available and searchable to the public on its website. Outreach to homelessness would be required to inform them of the database. The database would be updated quarterly This bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2027
AB 2638 (PENDING (Not yet law)) – “Water bottle filling station” Next hearing: August 1, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. The definition is defined as a “water dispenser accessible to all people in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act that dispenses clean water directly into a water bottle or other drinking container.” This bill would require a school district or the governing body of a charter school to ensure that each school is equipped with water bottle filling stations, as specified. The bill would require, beginning in the 2023–24 school year, a minimum of one water bottle filling station at each school and would require, beginning in the 2024–25 school year, a minimum of one water bottle filling station per 300 people at each school. new construction or modernization project submitted to the Division of the State Architect by a school district or the governing body of a charter school to include water bottle filling stations, as specified. The bill would require, for modernization projects, a minimum of one water bottle filling station for each school undergoing modernization, and for new construction projects, a minimum of one water bottle filling station per 350 people at each school being constructed. The bill would require water bottle filling stations to be placed in or near high traffic and common areas and to meet specified requirements, including dispensing drinking water that meets primary drinking water standards and secondary drinking water standards, as defined. The bill would provide that these requirements only apply to new construction and modernization projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect 3 months after voters approve a statewide general obligation bond that provides funds for school facilities for kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at a statewide election occurring on or after November 1, 2022.
AB2075 (PENDING (Not yet law)) – EVCS – Next hearing: August 1, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to adopt, approve, codify, and publish mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development, as specified. Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the California Building Standards Code in its entirety once every 3 years. and the Department of Housing and Community Development, in proposing and adopting those mandatory building standards, to consult interested parties. This bill would specify the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) is an interested party that the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development are required to consult with in proposing and adopting those standards. The bill would require the California Building Standards Commission, as part of each triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle that commences on or after January 1, 2023, to convene a workshop or other collaborative process on electric vehicle charging infrastructure standards, and would require the Energy Commission, as part of its participation in the workshop or collaborative process, to incorporate the most recent update to a specified statewide assessment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, any relevant electric load forecasts, and the statewide transportation electrification goals, as specified. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) Energy Commission to prescribe, by regulation, among other things, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards, energy and water conservation design standards, and appliance efficiency standards to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability, as specified. gather or develop, and publish on the Energy Commission’s internet website, guidance and best practices to help certain entities overcome barriers to electrification of buildings and installation of electric vehicle charging equipment that include certain topics, including the development of whole building electrification plans to help building owners prepare for future additions of electrical equipment. Existing law authorizes the building electrification plans to include wiring changes and energy planning to reduce the need for rework and help correctly size distributed energy and energy storage systems to anticipated future needs. This bill would require the Energy Commission to additionally adopt, by regulation, electric vehicle charging standards to be incorporated into other building design and construction standards, as specified. The bill would require the California Building Standards Commission to approve those electric vehicle charging standards and to incorporate those standards into the California Building Standards Code, as specified. specify that the anticipated future needs include future voluntary and mandatory vehicle charging standards in the California Building Standards Code.
AB 2829 (PENDING (Not yet law)) – DSA Grant Program – Held under submission, no hearing on calendar. This bill, until January 1, 2028, would establish the Certified Access Specialist Inspection Grant Program to assist small businesses in obtaining CASp inspections, and would require the State Architect to administer the program. The bill would authorize small businesses, defined to mean a business with fewer than 500 50 employees, as specified, with a physical property in the state, to apply for a grant for a CASp inspection of the small business’s property, in an amount equal to the actual cost of the inspection, not to exceed $3,000 per inspection. The bill would require the State Architect to develop an application and to develop criteria to evaluate and award the grants, as specified, and would require the State Architect to annually submit a report to the Legislature on the results of the program. The bill would appropriate an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Certified Access Specialist Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of the program. This bill would also make findings and declarations related to a gift of public funds.
SB1482 – Building Standards: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: Next hearing: August 3, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. This bill would require instead require the commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to research and develop, and would authorize the commission to adopt, approve, codify, and publish, mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development. The bill would authorize those mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings to require that each dwelling unit with access to a parking space have at least one parking space served by a dedicated 208/240-volt branch circuit of at least 20 amperes terminating in a receptacle or an electric vehicle charging station, station and include specified signage for those electric vehicle parking spaces, and connection of the electric vehicle charging circuit directly to the dwelling unit’s electric meter or electric panel, as specified. spaces. The bill would provide for additional parties that additionally require the commission and the department would be required to consult with multifamily dwelling residents and electric vehicle equity advocate groups in proposing and adopting researching and developing these standards. Dead Bills:AB30 “Equitable Outdoor Access Act.” File suspended, did not become law. AB2962 “Unruh Act” completed gutted. Did not become law.
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