California Legislation

AB 35 - Environment: State Buildings: Sustainable Building Standards
This bill would enact the Sustainable Building Act of 2007 and would require the Environmental Protection Agency, by July 1, 2009, to adopt regulations for sustainable building standards for the construction or renovation of state buildings, as defined. See attached veto message

AB 888 - Green Building Standards
This bill would require new commercial buildings for which a public agency deems the application for a development project complete on or after January 1, 2013, and that are 50,000 square feet or greater, be designed, constructed, and operated, to meet the applicable standards described in the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold rating or its equivalent, unless the state adopts specified minimum green building standards, in which case, those commercial buildings would be required to meet the adopted standards. See attached veto message

AB 1058 - Green Building Construction: Best Practices
This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, by July 1, 2009, in conjunction with a specified working group of certain state entities that it would coordinate, and, in consultation with specified public and private sector organizations, to develop green building standards for residential occupancies, and submit them to the Building Standards Commission for review, adoption, approval, and publication. See attached veto message

http://gov.ca.gov/issue/environment

The building standards commission will be coming out November 5th with draft language for proposed changes to the state code that we should link directly to. I will forward you the link when I get it.

The governor’s veto message on the following “green” bills AB-35, AB-888, AB1058 at http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/7713/