AB 1239: Building standards: electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings. That law also requires the department and the commission to use specified provisions of the California Green Building Standards Code as a starting point for those mandatory building standards.

This bill would express legislative findings and declarations relating to the adoption of building standards to increase electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The bill would require the department and the commission to research, develop, and propose for adoption building standards regarding electric vehicle capable parking spaces for existing parking structures and lots, as specified, located adjacent to, or associated with, multifamily dwellings and nonresidential buildings in a triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2018, as specified.