RECENT LEGISLATION

BILLS PASSED IN 2010 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

HB 516:  Industrialized Buildings

This bill requires industrialized buildings to meet only state minimum standard codes and prohibits local governments, by local ordinance or regulation, from excluding residential industrialized buildings from being sited in a residential district solely because the building is a residential industrialized building.  The legislation states that local government authority that is preserved includes local land use and zoning, building setback and rear yard requirements, utility connections, subdivision regulations, and architectural and esthetic requirements.

Effective Date:  May 20, 2010.

HB 1388:  Financing for Green Projects