Accessibility Standards in Building Codes

Added a provision stating that if a county planning commission does not act within thirty days, approval is assumed, and their opinion is advisory only and not binding on the board of county commissioners.

Added a new section (Section 4) that begins to define requirements for boards of county commissioners or regional building departments operating through intergovernmental agreements with county commissioners.

Updated the document header from 'REREVISED' to 'REVISED' and changed the date stamp from February 26, 2025 to February 25, 2025, reflecting legislative progress.

Updated sponsor list to include additional House and Senate sponsors (Joseph and Stewart R., Bacon, Boesenecker, Brown, Clifford, Duran, Froelich, Lindsay, Mabrey, Martinez, Mauro, Paschal, Phillips, Rutinel, Stewart K., Titone, Velasco for House; Coleman, Gonzales J., Hinrichsen, Jodeh, Kipp, Michaelson Jenet, Snyder, Sullivan, Weissman for Senate).

Updated committee assignments to reflect current House and Senate committee structures.

Added revision status labels indicating this version includes all amendments adopted in the Second House.

The bill text was restructured from a final act format to a preliminary committee amendment format with different header information and page numbering.

Removed final act language about signatures and added preliminary language indicating this is an unofficial version with committee amendments not yet adopted.

Changed sponsor listing format from detailed individual names to abbreviated format with committee assignments.

Reorganized legislative declaration sections with different numbering and line breaks while maintaining the same substantive content.

Added a note at the beginning indicating the bill is prepared for signatures and directing readers to legislative status resources.

Reorganized the bill header and sponsor list to match standard formatting conventions.

Removed explanatory text about markup conventions (capital letters, bold numbers, dashes) that was embedded within the bill text.

Corrected a typo in the representative list, changing 'Lied' to 'Lieder'.

Added new sponsors to the House Bill sponsorship list (Bird, Lied, Valdez, Willford, Woodrow, Zokaie for House; Gonzales J., Hinrichsen, Jodeh, Kipp, Michaelson Jenet, Snyder, Sullivan, Weissman, Coleman for Senate)

Removed 'First Regular Session' and 'Seventy-fifth General Assembly' header text

Changed bill title formatting from 'A BILL FOR AN ACT' to 'BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) ... also SENATOR(S) ...'

Removed 'Bill Summary' section and related explanatory notes about reading dates and summaries

Added new explanatory notes about capital letters, bold numbers, and dashes indicating amendments

Added additional co-sponsors to the House sponsorship list.

Updated the bill summary header to indicate it is the reengrossed version.

Removed provisions stating that adoption of energy-efficient building codes does not constitute a substantial amendment to the building codes.

Removed requirements that accessibility standards adopted by county commissioners cannot provide less protection than the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

Removed exemptions for one- and two-family dwellings and townhomes from accessibility standards requirements.

Added requirement that county building codes must meet accessibility standards from one of the two most recent versions of the International Building Code adopted by the International Code Council or successor organization.

Added provision that adopting energy-efficient building codes does not count as a substantial amendment to the building code for purposes of this accessibility requirement.

Modified language to clarify that county accessibility standards cannot provide less protection than required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Added exemption for one- and two-family dwellings and townhomes that comply with existing energy-efficient building codes from the new accessibility requirements.

Added definition of 'Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990' as 42 U.S.C. Sec. 12101 et seq.