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State building code committee debates placement of elevator rules after HB 1183 draft shifts standards to L&I
Summary
Members of the State Building Code Council legislative committee discussed draft language in HB 1183 and related bills that move elevator-standards language into the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) statutes, raising questions about where provisions that direct cities and counties should be located and who would enforce them.
Members of the State Building Code Council legislative committee on Jan. 30 discussed draft legislative language — including HB 1183 and related Senate language (SB 5156) — that would move elevator-standards material into RCW 70.87, the Department of Labor & Industries elevator program statute. Committee chair Tom Handy opened the conversation and Dustin, SBCC staff, walked members through a substitute bill that places standards language in 70.87.
The panel’s central concern was placement of provisions that would direct cities and counties to allow “small passenger elevators” (described in the draft as applying to buildings up to six stories and about 24 units). Dustin told the committee, “This section ... is the only language change in this one, and it’s placed in 70.87,” and flagged that the requirement for cities and counties to allow passenger elevators may not belong in that RCW.
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