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Committee approves merged building-code bill with committee amendment to preserve uniformity
Summary
Lawmakers merged House Bill 428 and Senate Bill 94, adopted a committee amendment to ensure local codes are not more or less stringent than the state building code, and advanced the measure by a 4-1 vote.
The Executive Departments and Administration Committee voted to adopt a committee amendment and advance House Bill 428, a measure that merges HB 428 and Senate Bill 94 to adjust state and local building-code language.
Sponsor and committee discussion focused on reconciling two similar bills, correcting drafting errors and ensuring local codes remain consistent with the state building code. The committee adopted amendment 1869s as the base and added a committee amendment clarifying that local codes must not be more or less stringent than the state building code.
Committee members described a multi-draft process with input from Representative McGuire, Phil Sherman of the Building Code Review Board, and Commissioner Toomey, and said the Office of Legislative Services (OLS) produced multiple drafts before the committee consolidated language. The committee adopted the committee amendment on page 3, line 4 to insert the words "more or less" in the phrase that governs relative stringency.
The amendment passed 4–1 on the record. The committee then moved to pass HB 428 as amended; after a second, the committee recorded the final vote as 4–1 and advanced the bill out of committee.
Committee members asked staff to renumber and finalize the consolidation language. The transcript does not record roll-call names for each yes/no vote; the 4–1 tally is recorded in the session transcript.
