FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION

APRIL 12, 2010 TELECONFERENCE MEETING REPORT

MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010

Opening and Meeting Attendance

The meeting was opened at 10:00 AM, and the following Commissioners participated:

Raul L. Rodriguez, AIA, (Chair), Bob Boyer, Ed Carson, Kiko Franco, Herminio Gonzalez,

Jim Goodloe, Ken Gregory, Dale Greiner, Jeff Gross, Jon Hamrick, Scott Mollan,

Nicholas Nicholson, Rafael Palacios, Jim Schock, Chris Schulte, and Jeff Stone.

DCA Staff Present

Rick Dixon, Ila Jones, Mo Madani, and Jim Richmond.

Meeting Facilitation

The meeting was facilitated by Jeff Blair from the FCRC Consensus center at Florida State University. Information at: http://consensus.fsu.edu/

Project Webpage

Information on the project, including agenda packets, meeting reports, and related documents may be found in downloadable formats at the project webpage below:

http://consensus.fsu.edu/FBC/index.html

Agenda Review and Approval

The Commission voted unanimously, 16 - 0 in favor, to approve the agenda as presented including the following objectives:

Ø To Hear a Legislative Update

Ø To Discuss Relevant Legislative Issues

Legislative Issues Update

Jim Richmond, Commission Attorney, provided an update on legislative issues of interest to the

Commission from the 2010 Florida Legislative Session, and answered member’s questions. Members

were provided a matrix with status updates for bills of interest to the Commission. Jim provided the

Commission with a status update on SB 648 (Bennett: Commission’s recommendations), HB 663

(Aubuchon: expedited product approval, and roof mounted mechanical equipment), HB 975 (Fetterman/

Porth: reactive drywall taskforce), SB 1044 (Aronberg: reactive drywall taskforce), SB 2694 (Constantine: Commission’s recommendations), and HB 7095/SB 846 (Bennett: prohibits the adoption of ICC residential sprinkler requirements into FBC, Residential Volume).

Jim reported that HB 663 includes amendments to address Commission comments. In addition member

were provided an electronic version of the amended version of HB 663 and SB 648. Jim reported that HB 663

passed all committees, was read for the first time on the floor and is ready for a second reading.

Jim noted that SB 648 was adopted with one amendment by the Community Affairs Committee and before

being sent to the Senate for a vote must be heard by the Education Pre-K-12 Committee and the Ways

and Means Committee. Jim reported that the bills related to reactive drywall have made no progress.

Following is the status of legislation relevant to the Commission:

Bill #	Sponsor	Committees of Reference	Current Status	Notes
648	Sen. Bennett	Reg. Industries; Banking and Ins.; Comm. Aff; Ed. Pre-K - 12; Ways and Means	Heard by Comm. Affairs 4/7, PCS adopted with one amendment	Matters resolved as requested by the Commission; recommendations in tact as is funding source. Ed. Pre-K – 12 committee likely has two more meetings, 4/13 and 4/20, Ways and Means will continue to meet throughout session.
663	Rep. Aubuchon	Ins, Bus, & Fin Affairs; Military & Local Affairs; Gen. Gov’t.	Passed all committees; read 1st time on the floor, 4/6	Will likely await passage of 648 through committee before further action. Needs tweak to wind design of mech. equip. and surcharge for consistency with 648, should be accomplished on 2nd reading.
846	Sen. Bennett	Reg. Industries; Comm. Aff.; Banking and Ins.	Passed Comm. Aff. by unan vote	Companion to 7095 relating to sprinklers
975	Reps. Fetterman and Porth	Ins, Bus, & Fin Affairs; Military & Local Affairs; Gov’t Ops App.; Gen. Gov’t Policy Council	No Progress	Reactive Drywall Legislative Taskforce, FBC representative, adoption of standard for content of drywall by 1/2012
1044	Sen. Aronberg	Reg. Ind.; Community Affairs; Environmental Pres; Trans and Econ Dev App; Rules	No Progress	See 975
2694	Sen. Constantine	Comm Aff; Banking and Ins; Gov’t Oversight; Transp. and Econ. Dev. App.	No Progress	Codes Bill restricted to Commission recommendations
7095 Formerly GAP10-22	House Gov’t Affairs Comm.	Econ Dev & Comm Aff Policy Council	Passed Council 4/7 by unan. vote	Bill to prevent adoption of ICC residential Sprinkler Requirements; adds language pertaining to residential rental properties, needs to be amended to be consistent with 648/846

Up-to-date information can be obtained via the Legislature’s website, http://www.leg.state.fl.us. Until a bill reaches the full chamber, amendments are most consistently available via committee pages linking to their meeting packets rather than from particular bill pages. Bill pages will reflect whether a particular bill is scheduled to be heard in Committee.

Adjourn

The Commission voted unanimously, 16 – 0 in favor, to adjourn at 10:35 AM.

April 12, 2010

Teleconference Meeting