20250AB__267799INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 2025 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Lowenthal LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Lowenthal

An act to amend

Section of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public safety. public safety Essential services buildings. The Essential Services Buildings Seismic Safety Act of requires the appropriate enforcement agency, which in the case of state-owned facilities is the Division of the State Architect, to review the design and inspect the construction of essential services buildings or the reconstruction, alteration, or addition to any essential services building, as provided. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 16009. The appropriate enforcement agency that meets the requirements of Sections and shall review the design and inspect the construction of essential services buildings or the reconstruction, alteration, or addition to any essential services building to the extent it deems necessary to ensure that: (1)</xhtml:p>"?> (

a) When the enforcement agency is a local agency, drawings and specifications comply with the locally adopted editions of the model codes, as defined in

Section 18916, the administrative regulations contained in

Part 1 (commencing with

Section 1-101) of Title of the California Code of Regulations, and the regulations contained in

Part 2 (commencing with

Section 101), except for Chapters to 30, inclusive, and

Chapter of Title of the California Code of Regulations. (2)</xhtml:p>"?> (

b) When the enforcement agency is the Office of the State Architect, that drawings and specifications comply with all parts of the State Building Standards Code, as contained in Title of the California Code of Regulations, as adopted by that agency. (3)</xhtml:p>"?> (

c) For the protection of life and property that the work of construction has been performed in accordance with the approved drawings and specifications and this chapter.