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State Building Code Council committee advances HB 2141 to full council after split on 10-year pause for code updates
Summary
The Building Code Council legislative committee debated HB 2141, a proposal to pause substantive building-code updates for 10 years, and voted to refer the bill to the full council while asking staff to draft an educational letter on the operational and fiscal impacts.
The Building Code Council legislative committee on Jan. 8 debated a proposal, HB 2141, that would pause substantive adoption of updated building codes for 10 years and voted to send the measure to the full council for further consideration.
The committee’s discussion, led by DES/SBCC staff (addressed in the meeting as Dustin), centered on the practical effect of a decade-long pause: staff said HB 2141 would limit the council’s rulemaking authority, prevent approval of local residential amendments during the pause (except for emergency rulemaking), and move the state to a later 6‑year cycle after the…
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