California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2418: Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 19837 of, and to add Sections 19838 and 19839 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to building permits. building permits Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review. Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered, that requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition, or repair of any building or structure, to require the execution of a permit application, as specified…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 19837 of, and to add Sections 19838 and 19839 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to building permits. building permits Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review. Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered, that requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition, or repair of any building or structure, to require the execution of a permit application, as specified. Existing law permits a local agency, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to authorize its enforcement agency to contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform plan-checking functions for a nonresidential building, but the local agency is not required to do so if it determines that no entities or persons are available or qualified to perform plan-checking services. Under existing law, when there is an excessive delay, as defined, in checking plans submitted as part of an application for specified nonresidential projects, a local agency is required to, upon request of the applicant, contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform the plan-checking function. Existing law defines “excessive delay” to mean, among other things, the local agency has …