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The first public building law enacted in California was called the State Tenement Housing Act
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State Division of Immigration and Housing and the State Division of Safety were created.
Each had separate regulatory authority that established the unfortunate precedence of having different state departments responding individually to specific building problems that had statewide impacts. -
International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO) - published the first Uniform Building Code (UBC).
The ICBO family of Uniform Codes has been adopted by reference or has been used as a pattern by most local governments. The UBC established uniformity of building codes in California. -
House Resolution No. 183 established a panel to study the building code issue and report back to the Legislature.
The State has no one agency concerned principally with building regulations. There are at least ten state agencies having some degree of authority in this field, and not one of them is responsible for taking the lead in coordinating the activity of all of them. This produces two kinds of confusion - conflict between state agencies themselves and too many kinds of relationships between State and local agencies. There is no consistent pattern for defining the relative responsibility of the state a -
The initial State Building Standards Law was enacted (Chapter 1500, Statutes of 1953).
As originally enacted, the law established a California Building Standards Commission with limited powers to control the building standards regulatory process. The Commission could not question the substantive provisions of the code if it found technical defects or that the provisions would have a negative impact on the public. Also, the Commission had no control over the filing of a building standard with the Secretary of State, and no appellant powers. Because of its limited powers to control -
The Hospital Seismic Safety Act
The Hospital Seismic Safety Act was a legislative response to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971. The Act provided for state-regulated design and construction of certain emergency health facilities. The regulations were placed in Title 22. -
The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act
The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act was based on a legislative finding that the rapid growth rate in the demand for electric energy was in part due to wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, and unnecessary uses of power. A continuation of this trend would have resulted in:- The serious depletion or irreversible commitment of energy and land and water resources
- Potential threats to the State's environmental quality
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SB 331
To correct the problems and confusion resulting from the uncoordinated proliferation of conflicting, duplicate, and overlapping state regulations, SB 331 (Robbins) (Chapter 1152, Statutes of 1979), effective January 1, 1980, provided the Commission with broader powers. As a result of SB 331, all proposed building regulations adopted by various state agencies must be reviewed and approved by the Commission before the regulations have any force or effect. Further, the legislation called for all b -
AB 47
AB 47 (Eastin) transferred the adoption authority of the following state agencies to the Commission:- Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
- Office of the State Fire Marshal (SFM)
- Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)
- Office (now Division) of the State Architect (DSA)
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SB 1258
SB 1258 (Lowenthal, Stats. 2008, c. 172) added to the State Building Standards Law the provision that a local jurisdiction may prohibit the use of graywater entirely, or adopt building standards that are more restrictive than the graywater building standards adopted by the Department of Housing and Community Development and published in the California Building Standards Code. SB 1473 (Calderon, Stats. 2008, c. 719) was enacted and became effective January 1, 2009, establishing the Building Stan -
SB 518
SB 518 (Chapter 622, Statutes of 2010) adds Health and Safety Code Section 18941.8 to require that the California Building Standards Commission, as part of the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2011, to adopt building standards for the construction, installation, and alteration of graywater systems for indoor and outdoor uses in nonresidential occupancies. Water Code Section 14877.1 was amended to terminate the Department of Water Resources -
AB 296
AB 296 (Chapter 667, Statutes of 2012) amended the Health and Safety Code and the Public Resources Code to require the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to develop a standard specification for sustainable or cool pavements that can be used to reduce the urban heat island effect index. The bill also required the California Building Standards Commission, in its next triennial code adoption cycle after the development of the standard specification by Caltrans, to consider incorpor -
AB 341
AB 341 (Chapter 585, Statutes of 2013) amended Sections 18930, 18930.5, and 18931.7 of, and added Section 18940.5 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to green building standards. Health and Safety Code Section 18930 is amended to specify that, for purposes of the Nine Point Criteria all building standards must meet, the public interest includes, but is not limited to, health and safety, resource efficiency, fire safety, seismic safety, building and building system performance, and consiste -
Title 24
The 2013 California Energy Code, Part 6, Title 24, California Code of Regulations now goes into effect on July 1, 2014. Until July 1, 2014, the 2010 California Energy Code, Part 6 is the effective code.