NEW LAW: Basement Window Egress Equality

The 2015 General Session recently wrapped up and I am happy to report my bill to create window egress equality for older homes was passed by both the House and the Senate.

I wrote about the need for the bill in January prior to the Session beginning.

In a nutshell, if you own an older property that has basement bedroom windows that were in accordance with code at the time the basement bedroom was constructed, a city or county cannot force you to alter your window size to bring it into compliance with current building codes.  The idea being that if the window was good enough back then, its good enough today.  We don't need government forcing owners to retrofit properties at their expense to accommodate an ever changing and ever more rigorous building code.