ICC Announcements and Important Dates:

First, please take a couple minutes to protect your efforts and your colleagues’ efforts, time and expense to produce the world’s leading building safety codes and standards. Your members of Congress need to hear from you to pass the bipartisan  Pro Codes Act, H.R. 4072. Click here to ask your member of Congress to protect your work and co-sponsor the Pro Codes Act (H.R. 4072) today! 

You can read about it here in the July GR Monthly Update. Other highlights include:

• Passage by the Illinois General Assembly to require all newly built warehouses in the state craft a tornado safety plan and build storm shelters.
• Details on how Hurricane Helene and other disasters reshaped strategies for building codes in Florida and the South.
• What you need to know about the 2025 Annual Conference in Cleveland this fall.
• Tips on career development and succession planning for code officials and their offices.
• Global Membership Council’s insightful (free) webinar July 8.
• What you need to know about the EPA's Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap.

For my California colleagues, I’d also like to include an update on AB 306. Yesterday, AB 130 was signed into law after being approved earlier in the day by the California Senate (on a vote of 28-5) and Assembly (on a vote of 62-3). You may remember last week, what was  AB 306 was amended into AB 130,  specifically sections 29, 30, and 31. AB 130, which also included a number of legislative housing priorities and California Environmental Quality Act reforms, was then tied to SB 131 and the state budget.

The original language of AB 306 was amended to protect the triennial process but despite multiple rounds of amendments still includes restrictions on local amendments beginning October 1, 2025, through June 1, 2031. Amendments in effect as of September 30, 2025, can be carried forward. We anticipate the California Building Standards Commission will provide additional guidance in the near future.