Bill Text: CA AB1505 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Seismic retrofitting: soft story multifamily housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-14 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McGuire. [AB1505 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1505
| Introduced by Assembly Member Rodriguez (Coauthors: Assembly Members Juan Carrillo, Holden, Schiavo, and Wood) |
February 17, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 8590.16 of the Government Code, relating to state government, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1505, as amended, Rodriguez.
Seismic retrofitting: soft story multifamily housing.
Existing law establishes the California Earthquake Authority, administered under the authority of the Insurance Commissioner and governed by a 3-member board, to transact insurance in this state as necessary to sell policies of basic residential earthquake insurance. Under existing law, the California Residential Mitigation Program, also known as the CRMP, is a joint powers authority created in 2012 by agreement between the California Earthquake Authority and the Office of Emergency Services.
Existing law establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing for the purposes of providing financial assistance to owners of soft story multifamily housing for seismic retrofitting to protect individuals living in multifamily housing that have been determined to be at risk of collapse in earthquakes, as specified. Existing
law also establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund, and its subsidiary account, the Seismic Retrofitting Account, within the State Treasury. Existing law provides that the Legislature will appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund for the purposes of carrying out the program. Existing law requires the CRMP to develop and administer the program, as specified. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2042, and repeals them as of January 1, 2043.
Existing federal law, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, establishes various grant opportunities, including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program, to support hazard mitigation
projects.
This bill would, instead, state the intent of would remove the requirement for the Legislature to appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the CRMP for the purpose of implementing in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing.
Housing Fund. The bill would require
authorize the Office of Emergency Services to dedicate at least 15% of federal hazard mitigation grant program funds to seismic retrofit projects, as specified, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities application funding to specified projects to augment and support the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8590.16 of the Government Code is amended to read:8590.16.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that there exists the California Residential Mitigation Program, also known as the CRMP, a joint powers authority created in 2012 by agreement between the California Earthquake Authority and the Office of Emergency Services.(b) The Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing is hereby established, to be developed and administered as provided in this article, for the purposes of providing financial assistance to owners of soft story multifamily housing for seismic retrofitting to protect individuals living in multifamily housing that have been determined to be at risk of collapse in earthquakes.
(c) The Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund, and its subsidiary account, the Seismic Retrofitting Account, are hereby created within the State Treasury. It is the intent of the Legislature that the sum of two hundred and fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) be appropriated from the General Fund to the CRMP for the purposes of this article.
(d) Funds appropriated for purposes of the program shall be available for a 10-year performance period. The performance period may be extended by the CRMP on an annual basis until July 1, 2042.
(e) To augment and support the Seismic Retrofitting Program for
Soft Story Multifamily Housing, the Office of Emergency Services shall
may dedicate at least 15 percent of federal hazard mitigation grant program funds to seismic retrofit projects for housing and other critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, fire stations, public safety dispatch, and emergency operation centers. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, as specified in Section 5170c of Title 42 of the United States Code, and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, as specified in Section 5133 of Title 42 of the United States Code, application funding for any of the following projects:
(1) Seismic retrofit projects.
(2) Projects that augment new construction to meet seismic functional recovery objectives.
(3) Scoping projects that identify vulnerable structures in need of mitigation and that prioritize housing and other critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, fire stations, public safety dispatch, emergency operation centers, assisted living facilities, grocery facilities, and historical buildings.
SEC. 2.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to prevent delay in implementing the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
