Bill Text: CA SB1477 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Low-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 378, Statutes of 2018. [SB1477 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB1477-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1477

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Introduced by Senator Stern

February 16, 2018

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An act to add Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 25970) to Division 15 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1477, as introduced, Stern. Zero-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.

The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, including energy associated with the use of water. The act requires those standards to be cost effective when taken in their entirety and when amortized over the economic life of the structure compared with historic practice.

This bill would establish the Zero-Emissions Heating Market Transformation Fund in the State Treasury and would require moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended for the design and implementation of market development activities for highly efficient and zero-onsite-emissions building technologies, for incentives for new buildings to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases by more than is required by law, and for incentives for existing buildings to adopt zero-emissions building technologies. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to authorize incentive programs that will transform the state’s market for low-emissions space and water heating technologies.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 25970) is added to Division 15 of the Public Resources Code, to read:

CHAPTER  11.5. Zero-Emissions Buildings Market Transformation

25970.

 The Public Utilities Commission shall authorize incentive programs that will transform the state’s market for low-emissions space and water heating technologies.

25971.

 There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Zero-Emissions Heating Market Transformation Fund. Moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall be expended by the commission to design and implement market development activities for highly efficient and zero-onsite-emissions building technologies, including electric heat pumps, and to offer incentives for new buildings to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases by more than is required by law and for existing buildings to adopt zero-emissions building technologies to further the goal of achieving the state’s air quality and climate goals.