Bill Text: CA AB704 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Energy: building standards: photovoltaic requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB704 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB704-Amended.html
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Amended
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April 06, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 704
| Introduced by Assembly Member Jim Patterson |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Sections 25402.15 and 25402.15.5 25402.18 and 25402.19 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 704, as amended, Jim Patterson.
Energy: building standards: photovoltaic requirements.
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards that increase efficiency in the use of energy and water for new residential and new nonresidential buildings, and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and new nonresidential buildings. Pursuant to this authority, the commission has established regulations requiring solar-ready buildings and for the installation of photovoltaic systems meeting certain requirements for low-rise residential buildings built on or after January 1, 2020.
This bill, until January 1, 2027, would require residential construction intended to repair, restore, or replace a residential building damaged or destroyed as a result
of a disaster in an area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor to comply only with requirements regarding photovoltaic systems pursuant to the regulations, if any, that were in effect at the time the damaged or destroyed residential building was originally constructed and would not require that construction to comply with any additional or conflicting photovoltaic system requirements in effect at the time of repair, restoration, or replacement. This provision would apply only if one or more of certain conditions are met with respect to the building owner’s income, insurance coverage, or and the location or
and square footage of the construction. Until January 1, 2027, the bill would also require the commission to collect data on the use and application of the exemption from local permitting agencies and, on or before March 1, 2025, and again on or before March 1, 2026, to prepare and submit a report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature concerning the exemption, as provided.
Because a local agency would be required to determine whether any older applicable photovoltaic requirements are met, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 25402.18 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25402.18.
(a) Notwithstanding other laws, residential construction intended to repair, restore, or replace a residential building damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in an area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code shall comply with requirements regarding photovoltaic systems pursuant to regulations prescribed pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 25402, if any, that were in effect at the time the damaged or destroyed residential building was originally constructed and shall not be required to comply with any additional or conflicting photovoltaic system requirements in effect at the time of repair, restoration, or replacement.(b) This section only applies when one or more all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The income of the owner of the residential building is at or below the median income for the county in which the residential building is located as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development state income limits.
(2) The construction does not exceed the square footage of the property at the
time it was damaged.
(3) The new construction is located on the site of the home that was damaged.
(4) The owner of the residential building did not have code upgrade insurance at the time the property was damaged.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2027, and as of that date is repealed.
SEC. 2.
Section 25402.19 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25402.19.
(a) The commission shall collect data, to the extent possible, on the use and application of Section(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before March 1, 2025, and on or before March 1, 2026, the commission shall prepare and submit a report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature on the use and application
of Section 25402.15 25402.18 from the data collected pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2027, and as of that date is repealed.
