Bill Text: CA AB2233 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Building standards: toilet compartments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2233 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2233-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2233
| Introduced by Assembly Member Schiavo |
February 08, 2024 |
An act to add Section 18941.18 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to building standards.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2233, as amended, Schiavo.
Building standards: toilet compartments.
Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including approval and adoption of building standards and codification of those standards into the California Building Standards Code. Existing law also establishes that in the Department of General Services, there is a State Architect, appointed by the Governor, as specified, who is required to report directly to the Director of General Services.
This bill would require the Division of the State Architect, as part of the next intervening edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2025, to propose for adoption building standards that lower the threshold of toilet compartments required for an ambulatory accessible
toilet compartment to be required in addition to a wheelchair accessible toilet compartment. increase the total minimum number of ambulatory accessible toilet compartments to 5% of the total number of toilet compartments, with at least one ambulatory accessible toilet compartment. The bill would require that these standards be in addition to wheelchair accessible toilet compartment standards. The bill would also require the Division of the State Architect to consider additional changes to ambulatory accessible toilet compartment standards to improve accessibility.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 18941.18 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:18941.18.
(a) (1) As part of the next intervening edition of the California Building Standards Code (Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations), adopted after January 1, 2025, the Division of the State Architect shall propose for adoption building standards that(2) The proposed standards shall be in addition to wheelchair accessible toilet compartment standards.
(3) The proposed standards shall apply to privately funded public accommodations, commercial facilities, and publicly funded buildings.
(b) The Division of the State Architect shall consider additional changes to ambulatory accessible toilet
compartment standards to improve accessibility.
