The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code.

Existing law also requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose to the commission for consideration mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings. Existing law requires the commission to adopt, approve, codify, and publish mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development.

This bill would add and repeal Health & Safety Code 18941.11 to require the commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development, by the intervening edition of the Building Standards Code effective July 1, 2024, to research, develop, and propose for mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations with low power level 2 or higher electric vehicle chargers, including direct current fast chargers,  in existing multifamily dwellings during retrofits to existing buildings that are issued permits on and after the effective date of those building standards.

Finally, this bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development and the commission to review those building standards every triennial code cycle and update those building standards until specified goals are met.  The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2033.