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Commerce-backed bill would add alternative compliance paths, exemptions and extensions to clean buildings standard
Summary
House Bill 1543 would let the state Department of Commerce adopt alternative compliance metrics, allow additional exemptions and grant timeline extensions for buildings subject to Washington’s Clean Buildings Performance Standard.
Representative Beth D’Oleo, the bill sponsor and a committee member, introduced House Bill 1543 as agency‑request legislation from the Department of Commerce to add flexibility as the Clean Buildings Performance Standard moves toward initial compliance dates.
Emily Salzberg, managing director of the Clean Buildings unit at the state energy office (Commerce), told the committee the bill would authorize Commerce to adopt alternative compliance pathways based on alternative metrics, grant additional exemptions where extenuating circumstances exist ("including but not limited to risks to national security"), and approve…
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