An act relating to the Residential and Commercial Building Energy Standards and the adoption of a residential building code
Read first time and referred to the Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure
Summary
The bill changes the Division of Fire Safety to the Division of Fire and Building Safety and shifts authority over residential and commercial building energy standards from the Department of Public Service to that division. It also obligates the division to adopt a residential building energy code for public buildings that contain housing units, and sets up certification, enforcement and penalty rules. Builders, building owners, municipalities and the state fire‑safety agency would all be impacted.
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