Building standards: affordable housing developments: electric vehicle charging.
AB 2748
California Bills
20250AB__274897AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-05-18 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-07-02 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Quirk-Silva
An act to add and repeal
Section 17929.1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to building standards. building standards Building standards: affordable housing developments: electric vehicle charging. Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce within its jurisdiction all the provisions published in the California Building Standards Code and the provisions of the State Housing Law, as provided.
Existing law makes any violation of the State Housing Law a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, by imprisonment not exceeding months, or by both. Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to research and develop, and authorizes those entities to propose for adoption by the commission, mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential developments, as provided.
This bill would require a new or existing affordable housing development, as defined, for which a permit application is submitted between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, to comply with either the requirements for installation of low power Level or higher electric vehicle charging receptacles in the California Green Building Standards Code, as provided, or the applicable requirements for installation of low power Level or higher electric vehicle charging receptacles in the supplement to the edition of the California Green Building Standards Code. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.
By adding to the duties of local officials, and by expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. MAJORITY NO YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION
Section 17929.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code , immediately following
Section 17929 , to read: 17929.1. (a) "?>A new or existing affordable housing development for which a permit application is submitted between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, shall comply with one of the following:
(1) The requirements for installation of low power Level or higher electric vehicle charging receptacles in
Section 4.106.4.2.2 of
Chapter of the California Green Building Standards Code (Part of Title of the California Code of Regulations), including any subsequent editions and any other state or local building standards requiring the equivalent.
(2) The applicable requirements for installation of low power Level or higher electric vehicle charging receptacles in the supplement to the edition of the California Green Building Standards Code (Part of Title of the California Code of Regulations). (
b) For purposes of this section, “affordable housing development” means a housing development project in which percent of the units, excluding managers’ units, are restricted by deed, regulatory restriction contained in an agreement with a governmental agency, or other recorded document, as affordable housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as defined in
Section 50093, or subject to an agreement that provides housing subsidies for affordable housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as defined in
Section or comparable federal statutes. (
c) This
section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that reducing cost in affordable housing development is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair as that term is used in
Section of
Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore,
Section of this act adding
Section 17929.1 to the Health and Safety Code applies to all cities, including charter cities.
SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section of
Article XIII B of the California Constitution for certain costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district because, in that regard, this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section of
Article XIII B of the California Constitution. However, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains other costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to