20250AB__273899INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 2025 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Gabriel

An act to amend

Section 18944.41 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to building standards. building standards Construction guidelines for straw-bale structures.

Existing law establishes that certain interim provisions, pending the evaluation of straw bales as a construction material through the normal processes used for the testing and listing of building materials, the determination of construction standards, and the adoption of those materials and construction standards into the California Building Standards Code, shall become inoperative when building standards take effect that permit construction using baled straw as a loadbearing or nonloadbearing material.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provisions described above relating to the operation of laws regulating construction using baled straw. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 18944.41 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 18944.41. Sections 18944.30, 18944.31, 18944.33, 18944.35, and 18944.40 shall become inoperative when building standards become effective after approval by the California Building Standards Commission pursuant to

Chapter 4 (commencing with

Section 18935) that permit construction using baled straw as a loadbearing or nonloadbearing material and that is safe to the public.