Green building standards: review: annual report.

The State Housing Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose, among other things, the adoption of building standards generally to the California Building Standards Commission for adoption in the California Building Code. That law requires the department, for building standards submitted to the commission for adoption in the 2010 California Building Code or later, to review relevant green building guidelines when preparing proposed building standards for submission to the commission and consider proposing as mandatory building standards those green building features determined by the department to be cost effective and feasible to promote greener construction. That law further requires the department to summarize specified information in this regard in an annual report to the Legislature by September 1 of each year. This bill would instead require that the annual report be submitted to the Legislature no later than October 15 of each year and would make other, nonsubstantive, changes.