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Directs the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Insurance Department to work with the State Building Inspector to ensure that the next revision to the State Building Code contains standards that increase the resiliency of new and renovated homes and buildings.

Discusses new laws affecting the building and fire codes and the building industry enacted during the 2016 regular legislative session.

Discusses the Codes and Standards Committee's membership and responsibilities.

Discusses state law regarding building certificates of occupancy.

Discusses legislative history of Public Act 443 (1969), establishing a statewide building code.

Discusses whether the current Connecticut state building code requires elevators in multi-floor residential buildings and stand-by power (generators) in housing for the elderly or disabled.

Discusses the State Codes and Standards Committee, especially its duties and membership.

Discusses Los Angeles' streamlined permitting system and compares it with the changes PA 10-158 makes to Connecticut's permitting practices.

Discusses whether there is a State of Connecticut basic building code, what edition of the building code is currently being used in Connecticut and where it can be purchased, and, if local appeal boards may override local building officials' decisions.

Discusses the standards for door widths in new one- and two-family dwellings in Connecticut, who set them, and who enforces them.

Discusses Section 7 of Public Act 95-277, which required local building officials to get proof of workers' compensation coverage on employees at projects costing $100,000 or more.

Discusses several questions about building code enforcement.

Discusses if Connecticut towns are required to have a housing code enforcement officer and what town official is responsible for inspecting occupied rental units based on a tenant complaint.

Approximately how long it takes to settle a claim against the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund, the fund's payment history, and the fund's financial condition.

Discusses local or state programs to force owners of unsafe buildings to bring them up to code or tear them down.

Compares the provisions in the legislation authorizing the UConn 2000 and Adriaen's Landing projects that exempt these projects from various regulatory provisions and establish expedited procedures for obtaining licenses for these projects.

Discusses whether state laws and regulations require public bathrooms in such places as in stores and gas stations.

Discusses the number and function of buildings on the campuses of Connecticut state colleges that are at or below "threshold limits" and thus did not require a state building permit.

Discusses the regulations regarding fire sprinklers in bed and breakfast establishments.

Discusses role a local building official plays under an Act Concerning Construction Equity (PA 98-82) and if a municipality were exempt from liability.

Discusses the major provisions of RB 5373, "an Act Concerning the State Building Code."

Discusses whether state building projects are exempt from the State Building Code.

Discusses the Guardian Interlock System, an alcohol detection device that is connected to a vehicle's ignition system.

Discusses whether statutes allow towns to adopt property maintenance codes and if Wethersfield's recently amended property maintenance code was taken from a 1997 bill.

Discusses whether a homeowner with a deck that was built without a building permit must get a permit as she was instructed by the local building inspector; and, if so, what the minimum requirements are for decks.

Discusses whether there are any regulations regarding vacant buildings.

Summarizes the 1996 Building Code Task Force recommendations.

Discusses history of Insurance and Real Estate Committee public hearings on extending fencing requirement to existing pools that were built before the building code requirements took effect.

Discusses whether building officials are responsible for checking whether a home improvement contractor is registered before issuing a building permit.

Discusses whether a municipality can enact an ordinance that preempts a State Building Code provision.

Discusses whether the state should exempt small inns and bed and breakfast places from the National Fire protection Association's (NFPA) requirement for automatic fire sprinklers.

Discusses whether a landlord charged with housing violations can lose the property that has the violations to the state in a civil forfeiture action.

Discusses Connecticut Superior Court opinion involving common-law negligence.

Discusses why the state is adopting the 1990 Building Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA) codes instead of the 1993 codes, (why it takes so long to revise the State Building Code, and what can be done to ensure that the state always adopts the most current codes.