Bill Text: VA HB1092 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Uniform Statewide Building Code; amending Code, local building officials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Continued to 2025 in General Laws by voice vote [HB1092 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB1092-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1092 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 10, 2024 A BILL to direct the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code to prohibit lifetime appointments of local building officials. ---------- Patron-- Oates (By Request) ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) shall amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code, including 13VAC5-63-50 and any corresponding regulations, to remove any authority for local building departments to appoint local building officials for a permanent term. The Board shall require each local building department to appoint the local building official for such department for a term not to exceed 10 years and thereafter to only reappoint such building official after holding a performance evaluation to determine whether such official has substantially met the expectations of the local building department during his previous term of appointment.