Bill Text: CA ACR93 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Fire safety: municipal ordinances.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 53-15-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 173, Statutes of 2015. [ACR93 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR93-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 93	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  173
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos,
Chang, Chau, Ch�vez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd,
Eggman, Frazier, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Hadley, Roger Hern�ndez, Irwin,
Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein,
Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Olsen,
Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,
Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, and Wood)

                        JUNE 30, 2015

   Relative to fire safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 93, Holden. Fire safety: municipal ordinances.
   This measure would encourage all California municipalities to
reexamine regulations surrounding mandatory fire suppression
ordinances.



   WHEREAS, The first automatic sprinkler system was patented in
England in 1723 and the first fire sprinkler system was developed in
the United States in 1874.
   WHEREAS, Fire suppression technology was first used in residential
construction in the state in 1932 when the Union Oil Company
constructed homes for employees in Santa Paula, California; and
   WHEREAS, The City of San Clemente, California was the first city
in the nation to adopt an ordinance requiring all new residential
dwellings to contain fire sprinklers; and
   WHEREAS, Senate Bill 2579 was introduced in the California State
Senate in 1986 and would have required fire sprinklers in all
residential buildings; and
   WHEREAS, In January 1988, the California State Fire Marshall
published California's minimum design and installation standards for
fire suppression systems; and
   WHEREAS, On May 4, 1988, several floors of the First Interstate
Tower, a downtown Los Angeles high-rise office tower built without
fire sprinklers, ignited killing one and injuring 40 others.
Subsequent reports indicated a working fire suppression system would
have lessened the fire's damage; and
   WHEREAS, Following the First Interstate Tower fire, the City of
Los Angeles mandated automatic fire suppression systems in all
buildings over seven stories; and
   WHEREAS, Buildings should be provided with built-in fire
suppression systems to offset the negative impact of excessive
response times; and
   WHEREAS, On April 7, 2015, a massive fire burned through a six
floor office building in Los Angeles, a building that was exempted
from mandatory fire suppression regulations because of its age and
size; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature encourages all California
municipalities to reexamine regulations surrounding mandatory fire
suppression ordinances; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.