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Assembly Bill A11659

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a state pre-approved residential construction plan library

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2025-A11659 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Libraries And Education Technology
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §377-a, Exec L

2025-A11659 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a state library of pre-approved residential construction plans which are in compliance with the uniform code and certified by climate region.

2025-A11659 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11659
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 29, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hunter) --
   read once and referred to the Committee  on  Libraries  and  Education
   Technology
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a state
   pre-approved residential construction plan library
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 377-a
 to read as follows:
   § 377-A. PRE-APPROVED RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION PLAN  LIBRARY.  1.  THE
 DEPARTMENT, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COUNCIL, SHALL DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN
 A  LIBRARY  OF  PRE-APPROVED RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION PLANS WHICH ARE IN
 COMPLIANCE WITH THE UNIFORM CODE PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO  SECTION  THREE
 HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SEVEN  OF THIS ARTICLE AND CERTIFIED BY CLIMATE REGION.
 SUCH PLANS SHALL BE REVIEWED AND UPDATED TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE  WITH  THE
 UNIFORM CODE AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   2.  THE  GOVERNING  BODY  OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION MAY ADOPT A LOCAL
 LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT  SUCH  MUNICIPALITY  ACCEPTS
 PRE-APPROVED RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION PLANS FROM THE LIBRARY ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS SECTION FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE
 BUILDING CODE OF SUCH MUNICIPALITY, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, SUCH  LOCAL  LAW,
 ORDINANCE  OR  RESOLUTION SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO IMPACT A MUNICIPALITY'S
 CONTROL OVER ZONING, SETBACKS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION,  OR  SITE-SPECIFIC
 ENGINEERING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16124-01-6

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