California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB306: California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations.
Status: Vetoed, September 20, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 17958.12, 18931, 18945, and 18948.1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to building standards. building standards California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations. (1) Existing law authorizes any person adversely affected by any regulation, rules, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of any state agency respecting the administration of any building standard to appeal the issue for resolution to the California Building Standards Commission…
From the enrolled text, September 1, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 17958.12, 18931, 18945, and 18948.1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to building standards. building standards California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations. (1) Existing law authorizes any person adversely affected by any regulation, rules, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of any state agency respecting the administration of any building standard to appeal the issue for resolution to the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law authorizes any local agency having authority to enforce a state building standard and any person adversely affected by any regulation, rule, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of that agency respecting that building standard to appeal to the commission, provided that both wish to appeal the issue for resolution to the commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to accept those appeals only if the commission determines that the issues involved in the appeal have statewide significance. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to expand the reasons for which a person can appeal to the commission to include, among other things, a request for approval to use an alternate material. The bill would modify the conditions under which the commission may accept an appeal by removing the requirement that both the local agency and the adversely affected person wish to appeal the issue, and by requiring that certain issues …