Amended  IN  Assembly  April 12, 2023
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 09, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 593

Introduced by Assembly Member Haney

February 09, 2023

An act to add Section 25403.7 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 593, as amended, Haney. Carbon emission reduction strategy: building sector.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, by January 1, 2021, to assess the potential for the state to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state’s residential and commercial building stock by at least 40% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2030. Existing law requires the commission to include in the 2021 edition of the integrated energy policy report and all subsequent integrated energy policy reports a report on the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the supply of energy to residential and commercial buildings. Existing law requires the commission to establish the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program that includes a direct install program and a statewide incentive program for low-carbon building technologies.
Existing law establishes the policy of the state to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and to ensure that, by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 85% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions in 1990.
This bill would require the commission, on or before June 1, 2024, to identify an emission reduction strategy, with milestones, for the building sector to support achieving those carbon emissions reduction goals, as provided. The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2025, to implement the emission reduction strategy as a part of the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program and to take certain actions for purposes of implementing the strategy.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 25403.7 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

25403.7.
 (a) On or before June 1, 2024, the commission shall identify an emission reduction strategy, with milestones, for the building sector to support achieving the carbon emissions reduction goals set forth in Section 38562.2 of the Health and Safety Code by 2045.
(b) The emission reduction strategy shall do all of the following:
(1) Maximize workforce development.
(2) Provide clear market signals to appliance manufacturers and installers.
(3) Lessen Minimize impacts on ratepayers.
(4) Support extreme heat goals.
(5) Reduce barriers for low-income individuals.
(6) Identify how to deploy zero-emission bidirectional air conditioning home heating and cooling technologies, including bidirectional heat pumps, to meet the needs of communities impacted by climate change and extreme weather events.
(c) On or before July 1, 2025, the commissions commission shall implement the emission reduction strategy developed pursuant to subdivision (a) as a part of the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program established pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 25665) of Chapter 7.6.
(d) On or before July 1, 2025, the commission shall take actions specified in subdivision (b) of Section 25235 for purposes of implementing the emission reduction strategy developed pursuant to subdivision (a).