Bill Text: CA AB1092 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Building standards: electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 410, Statutes of 2013. [AB1092 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1092-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1092	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

    An act to add Section 22511.2 to the Vehicle Code,
relating to electric charge stations.   An act to add
Section 18941.10 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to building
standards. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1092, as amended, Levine.  Electric charge stations:
new construction projects.   Building standards:
electric vehicle charging infrastructure. 
   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. In the absence of a designated state
agency, the commission is required to adopt specific building
standards, as prescribed. Existing law requires the commission to
publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its
entirety once every 3 years.  
   This bill would require the commission, as a part of the next
triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted
after January 1, 2014, to adopt mandatory building standards for the
installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for
parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential
development.  
   Existing law allows a local authority and a person in lawful
possession of an offstreet parking facility to designate spaces for
charging an electric vehicle.  
   This bill would require a new construction project with 4 or more
offstreet parking spaces to include one electric vehicle charge
station per every 4 offstreet parking spaces included in the project.
By imposing new duties upon local entities in the approval of
construction projects, 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 these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Section 18941.10 is added to the Health and
Safety Code, to read:
   18941.10.  (a) As a part of the next triennial edition of the
California Building Standards Code (Title 24 of the California Code
of Regulations) adopted after January 1, 2014, the commission shall
adopt mandatory building standards for the installation of future
electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in
multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development.
   (b) In adopting mandatory building standards under this section,
the commission shall use Sections A4.106.6, A4.106.6.1, A4.106.6.2,
and A5.106.5.1 of the California Green Building Standards Code (Part
11 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations) as the starting
point for the mandatory building standards and amend those standards
as necessary.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 22511.2 is added to the
Vehicle Code, to read:
   22511.2.  (a) A local authority shall require that a construction
project with four or more offstreet parking spaces include one
electric vehicle charge station per every four offstreet parking
spaces included in the project.
   (b) This section applies only to construction projects for which a
building permit is issued on or after January 1, 2014. 

  SEC. 2.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.