Bill Text: TX HB4496 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipal and county building codes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB4496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4496-Introduced.html
By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 4496 |
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relating to municipal and county building codes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 388.003(a) and (b), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To achieve energy conservation in single-family | ||
residential construction, on [ |
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the energy efficiency chapter of the International Residential | ||
Code, as it existed on May 1, 2021 [ |
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code in this state for single-family residential construction. On | ||
or after January [ |
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Conservation Office may adopt and substitute for that energy code | ||
the latest published edition of the energy efficiency chapter of | ||
the International Residential Code, based on written findings on | ||
the stringency of the chapter submitted by the laboratory under | ||
Subsection (b-3). The office: | ||
(1) may not adopt an edition under this subsection | ||
more often than once every six years; and | ||
(2) by rule shall establish an effective date for an | ||
adopted edition that is not earlier than nine months after the date | ||
of adoption. | ||
(b) To achieve energy conservation in all other | ||
residential, commercial, and industrial construction, the | ||
International Energy Conservation Code as it existed on May 1, 2021 | ||
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other residential, commercial, and industrial construction. The | ||
State Energy Conservation Office may adopt and substitute for that | ||
energy code the latest published edition of the International | ||
Energy Conservation Code, based on written findings on the | ||
stringency of the edition submitted by the laboratory under | ||
Subsection (b-3). The office by rule shall establish an effective | ||
date for an adopted edition that is not earlier than nine months | ||
after the date of adoption. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 214.212(a) and (d), Local Government | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the | ||
International Residential Code, as it existed on May 1, 2021 | ||
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state. | ||
(d) A municipality may review and consider amendments made | ||
by the International Code Council to the International Residential | ||
Code after May 1, 2021 [ |
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SECTION 3. Sections 214.214(a) and (c), Local Government | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the National | ||
Electrical Code, as it existed on May 1, 2021 [ |
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the municipal electrical construction code in this state and | ||
applies to all residential and commercial electrical construction | ||
applications. | ||
(c) The National Electrical Code applies to all commercial | ||
buildings in a municipality [ |
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enlargement, or repair of those commercial buildings. | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 214.216(a), (b), (d), and (e), Local | ||
Government Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the | ||
International Building Code, as it existed on May 1, 2021 [ |
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adopted as a municipal commercial building code in this state. | ||
(b) The International Building Code applies to all | ||
commercial buildings in a municipality [ |
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remodeling, enlargement, or repair of those commercial buildings. | ||
(d) A municipality may review and consider amendments made | ||
by the International Code Council to the International Building | ||
Code after May 1, 2021 [ |
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(e) A municipality that has adopted a more stringent | ||
commercial building code before January 1, 2022 [ |
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required to repeal that code and may adopt future editions of that | ||
code. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 233.062(c), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The fire code must: | ||
(1) conform to: | ||
(A) the International Fire Code, as published by | ||
the International Code Council, as the code existed on May 1, 2021 | ||
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(B) the Uniform Fire Code, as published by the | ||
National Fire Protection Association, as the code existed on May 1, | ||
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(2) establish protective measures that exceed the | ||
standards of the codes described by Subdivision (1). | ||
SECTION 6. Section 233.153(a), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) New residential construction of a single-family house | ||
or duplex in the unincorporated area of a county to which this | ||
subchapter applies shall conform to the version of the | ||
International Residential Code published as of May 1, 2021 [ |
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or the version of the International Residential Code that is | ||
applicable in the county seat of that county. | ||
SECTION 7. Section 233.153(b), Local Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 8. The changes made by this Act apply only to | ||
residential or commercial construction, remodeling, alteration, | ||
enlargement, repair, or other activity, as applicable, that begins | ||
under an agreement made on or after January 1, 2022, or that begins, | ||
in the absence of an agreement, on or after that date. Residential | ||
or commercial construction, remodeling, alteration, enlargement, | ||
repair, or other applicable activity that begins under an agreement | ||
made before January 1, 2022, or that begins, in the absence of an | ||
agreement, before that date is governed by the law in effect when | ||
the agreement was made or the activity began, as appropriate, and | ||
that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022. |