THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2290
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds and declares that safeguarding the environment, public health, safety, and general welfare through the establishment of building and construction requirements related to sustainability is necessary.  Sustainable building and construction requirements reduce the negative potential impacts and increase the positive potential impacts of the built environment on the natural environment and building occupants.

     The purpose of this Act is to require the state building code to include code provisions based on the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code and the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code Water Efficiency Provisions.

     SECTION 2.  Section 107-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§107-25[]]  State building code; requirements.  There is established a state building code applicable to all construction in the State of Hawaii.  The state building code shall include:

     (1)  The latest edition of the state fire code as adopted by the state fire council;

     (2)  The latest edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code, as copyrighted and published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, including its appendices;

     (3)  The latest edition of the International Building Code, as published by the International Code Council;

     (4)  Hawaii design standards implementing the criteria pursuant to Act 5, Special Session Laws of Hawaii, 2005, as applicable to:

         (A)  Emergency shelters built to comply with hurricane resistant criteria, including enhanced hurricane protection areas capable of withstanding a five hundred-year hurricane event as well as other storms and natural hazards; and

         (B)  Essential government facilities requiring continuity of operations; [and]

     (5)  Code provisions based on nationally published codes or standards that include, but are not limited to, residential and hurricane resistive standards for residential construction, fire, elevator, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, flood and tsunami, existing buildings, and energy conservation standards for building design and construction, and onsite sewage disposal[.]; and

(6) Code provisions, as deemed appropriate by the state building code council, based on the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code and the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code Water Efficiency Provisions, as published by the International Code Council."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Report Title:

International Green Construction Code; State Building Code

Description:

Requires the state building code to include code provisions based on the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code and the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code Water Efficiency Provisions.  (SD1)

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