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Read. Follow. Verify.State Energy Conservation Office limits residential energy code updates to once every six years and requires housing attainability analyses
Last action · April 29, 2025: Laid on the table subject to callSponsors: Hernandez and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to certain regulations adopted by governmental entities for the construction or alteration of residential or commercial buildings.
- The State Energy Conservation Office operates under state law to establish energy and water conservation design standards and adopt building energy codes. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
State Energy Conservation Office
Must conduct new housing attainability and cost-effectiveness analyses prior to adopting or amending residential energy code editions.
Commercial and residential builders, architects, and engineers
Provided an opportunity to comment on energy code amendments and adoptions established by state rule.
Municipal and county authorities
Subject to updated local building regulation exemptions and granted an opportunity to comment on energy code rulemakings.
Key Facts
- Requires the State Energy Conservation Office to conduct an analysis measuring the impact on housing attainability and evaluating cost-effectiveness before amending or adopting single-family residential energy codes.
- Mandates that cost-effectiveness analysis calculate the payback period for required products or standards that are more stringent than the prior energy code.
- Adds exemptions to Government Code Section 3000.002(c) for energy and water conservation design standards established by the State Energy Conservation Office and high-performance building standards approved by a board of regents.
- Requires the State Energy Conservation Office by rule to establish a comment procedure for interested persons, including builders, local governments, environmental groups, and manufacturers.
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- Prohibits the State Energy Conservation Office from amending or adopting single-family residential energy code editions more often than once every six years.
- Sets the effective date of the Act as September 1, 2025.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Tabled in the House.
Procedural history
18 actions- Apr 29, 2025HouseLaid on the table subject to call
- Apr 29, 2025HouseCompanion considered in lieu of (SB 783)
- Apr 24, 2025HousePostponed (4/29/25 10:00 AM)
- Apr 24, 2025HouseFloorRead 2nd time
- Apr 24, 2025HousePlaced on General State Calendar
- Apr 22, 2025HouseConsidered in Calendars
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- Apr 17, 2025HouseCommittee report sent to Calendars
- Apr 16, 2025HouseCommittee report distributed
- Apr 16, 2025HouseComte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- Apr 9, 2025HouseCommitteeReported favorably w/o amendment(s)
- Apr 9, 2025HouseConsidered in public hearing
- Apr 2, 2025HouseLeft pending in committee
- Apr 2, 2025HouseTestimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- Apr 2, 2025HouseConsidered in public hearing
- Apr 2, 2025HouseScheduled for public hearing on . . .
- Mar 11, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to State Affairs
- Mar 11, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Nov 15, 2024HouseIntroducedFiled
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Mandatory Economic and Housing Attainability Checks
The bill introduces a statutory requirement tying energy code adoption directly to housing attainability and cost payback calculations.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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