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 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/12/26 - Introduced

 AB-1926 Residential construction costs: regulation.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/13/2026 09:00 PM

AB1926:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 13, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1926

Introduced by Assembly Member Pacheco

February 12, 2026

An act to add Section 11359.1 to the Government Code, and to amend Section 18930 of, and to add Section 17921.14 to, of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1926, as amended, Pacheco.
 Residential construction costs: regulation.

Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Government Operations Agency. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety every 3 years, and to publish, or cause to be published, supplements as necessary in the intervening period. Existing law requires any building standard adopted or proposed by state agencies to be submitted to, and approved or adopted by, the commission before codification, in compliance with certain procedures, including, among others, (1) if the proposed building standard promotes fire and panic
 safety, as determined by the State Fire Marshal, to have the written approval of the State Fire Marshal, and (2) the proposed building standards be and accompanied by an analysis written by the adopting agency or state agency that proposes the building standards that justifies the approval of the standards in terms of specified criteria.

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law, the State Housing Law, requires the department to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of building standards to the commission and to adopt, amend, or repeal other rules and regulations for the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential structures, as provided, which apply throughout the state.

This bill would
 require the department to review construction cost pressures for single-family and multifamily residential construction as a result of building standards and, on or before January 1, 2031, propose the revision of building standards to the commission to lower the costs determined to be attributable to building standards. The bill would further require the department to review construction cost pressures for single-family and multifamily residential construction as a result of other regulation by the department and other state agencies and, on or before January 1, 2031, develop recommendations to lower the costs the department determines to be attributable to regulation. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2031, to provide a report to the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and the Senate Committee on Housing regarding the recommendations developed pursuant to the bill.

This bill, for each triennial update of the California Building Standards Code that occurs on or after January 1, 2032, would require, the department and other applicable state agencies as determined by the department to propose the revision of building standards to the commission to lower the up-front construction costs for single-family and multifamily residential construction while continuing to maintain health and safety standards. The
 bill would require a proposed building standard adopted or proposed by a state agency and submitted to the commission for approval or adoption that could increase the cost of residential construction, as determined by the department, to have the written approval of the department. The bill would include in the above-described criteria for a proposed building standard that the standard does not cost more than the reasonable alternatives to the standard, determined by comparing all direct and indirect costs of implementing the standard
 to implementing the reasonable altern