Top Issues – Our Priorities

CAHB Legislative Action Plan 2025

Defensive Priorities:

Affordable/Workforce Housing

  • Monitor/oppose expected proposal to grant local governments first-right-of-refusal on sale of apartment buildings
  • Governor’s office proposals
  • Prop 123 implementation
  • Include housing affordability analysis on all bills that impact us.

Property Transfers

  • Preserve ability for private property transfers between the parties
  • Transfer taxes/fees

Construction Litigation Reform

  • Monitor legislation that would alter the prosecution of construction defects cases or change the current litigation environment, including opposing any attempts to change the Vallagio decision
  • Monitor arbitration reform bills, oppose anything that would eliminate gains from HB17-1279 or the Vallagio decision
  • Condo Conversions
  • Safe Harbor for multifamily for-sale builder/developer who follow and document best-practices in construction
  • Support efforts to develop public properties and gain immunity from litigation
  • Review possible proposals for right-to-repair

Disabled Housing

  • Disability Rights Task Force
  • ADA requirements and changes

Employment Law Issues

  • Employee discrimination litigation
  • Employee misclassification
  • Upstream liability for independent contractor claims
  • Labor Peace Act
  • Arbitration as it relates to employment matters
  • Wage theft

Green Building and Energy Efficiency

  • New homes solar-ready
  • New home EV charging mandates
  • Mandated limit to provide only electric service to new residential construction
  • Monitor attempts to mandate net-zero energy construction
  • Energy Benchmarking
  • attempts to prohibit low-cost energy sources such as natural gas

Impact Fees

  • Consider measures that would provide adequate notice on impact fee proposals and updates.
  • Fight efforts to increase the use of and amounts of impact fees that are tied to new residential development.

Development Infrastructure

  • Changes to special districts/metro districts

Retainage

  • Oppose efforts to legislate private contract provisions

Water Resources

  • Monitor legislative efforts that would impact water rights and the ability to provide water resources for new housing
  • Monitor legislation and other efforts that increase or regulate the processes and procedures in computing and managing water tap charges.
  • Fight any efforts to leverage water supply or environmental concerns to unreasonably restrict new housing proposals.
  • Monitor creation / authorization of a Dredge & Fill Permitting Program

WUI/Wildfire

  • WUI Building Codes

Workforce Development

  • Measures to Expand and Train Construction Workforce
  • CICC Funding

Offensive Priorities:

Affordable/Workforce Housing

  • Streamline processes and costs for permitting and local approvals
  • State-owned property development

Metro Districts/Special Districts

  • Proactive metro districts bill

Construction Litigation Reform

  • Delegable duties
  • Right to Remedy
  • CCIOA Changes

Insurance Availability

Concerns/Monitor:

  1. Building Codes – Oppose efforts to expand code adoption beyond electric, plumbing and energy codes at the state level.
  2. Mechanics Lien Laws
  3. Changes in Storm Water Management
  4. Homeowners Association/CCIOA Law
  5. Floodplains/Wetlands Regulations
  6. Nutrients Management Control Regulation
  7. Public Utilities – Line extension policy changes
  8. Movement to amend or restrict SFD zoning or attempts to broaden inclusionary zoning policies.
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