Connecticut 2025 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06618 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/23/2025

                             
 
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General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 6618  
January Session, 2025  
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY  
 
 
Introduced by:  
REP. WINTER, 94
th Dist. 
REP. MUSHINSKY, 85
th Dist. 
 
 
 
 
 
AN ACT REQUIRING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STATE-WIDE 
BUILDING CODE CONSISTING OF MORE STRINGENT ENERGY -
EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS THAT MAY BE ADOPTED BY TOWNS, 
CITIES OR BOROUGHS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
That chapter 541 of the general statutes be amended to provide that 1 
(1) the Office of the State Building Inspector and the Codes and 2 
Standards Committee shall develop a state-wide building code that 3 
consists of a more stringent set of energy-efficiency requirements than 4 
those specified in the State Building Code, which may be adopted by a 5 
town, city or borough, and (2) in the process of developing such state-6 
wide building code, said office and committee shall consider input from 7 
the public and stakeholders.  8 
Statement of Purpose:   
To provide that (1) the Office of the State Building Inspector and the 
Codes and Standards Committee shall develop a state-wide building 
code that consists of a more stringent set of energy-efficiency  Proposed Bill No.   6618 
 
 
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requirements than those specified in the State Building Code, which 
may be adopted by a town, city or borough, and (2) in the process of 
developing such state-wide building code, said office and committee 
shall consider input from the public and stakeholders.