CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 837Introduced by Senator ArchuletaFebruary 17, 2023 An act to add Section 25402.13 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 837, as introduced, Archuleta. Energy: building energy standards: unvented attics.Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, and unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability. Existing law requires the commission to periodically review the standards and adopt revisions that it deems necessary.This bill would require the commission, in the review of those regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, to consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly to include unvented attics, as provided.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 25402.13 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 837Introduced by Senator ArchuletaFebruary 17, 2023 An act to add Section 25402.13 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 837, as introduced, Archuleta. Energy: building energy standards: unvented attics.Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, and unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability. Existing law requires the commission to periodically review the standards and adopt revisions that it deems necessary.This bill would require the commission, in the review of those regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, to consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly to include unvented attics, as provided.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 837
Introduced by Senator ArchuletaFebruary 17, 2023
Introduced by Senator Archuleta
February 17, 2023
An act to add Section 25402.13 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 837, as introduced, Archuleta. Energy: building energy standards: unvented attics.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, and unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability. Existing law requires the commission to periodically review the standards and adopt revisions that it deems necessary.This bill would require the commission, in the review of those regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, to consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly to include unvented attics, as provided.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, and unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability. Existing law requires the commission to periodically review the standards and adopt revisions that it deems necessary.
This bill would require the commission, in the review of those regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, to consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly to include unvented attics, as provided.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 25402.13 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 25402.13 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.
SECTION 1. Section 25402.13 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.
25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.
25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.
25402.13. Beginning with the triennial review of Part 6 (commencing with Section 100.0) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, the commission shall consider revising the definition of conditioned space, indirectly for purposes of those regulations to include unvented attics, where the space is enclosed by the primary thermal and air barrier and directly adjoining conditioned space.