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Committee weighs requiring EV chargers in new multifamily buildings, delays vote
Summary
Work session on House Bill 2961, which would change building-code requirements for electric-vehicle (EV) charging in new multifamily and mixed-use buildings, drew debate over unit thresholds, rural impacts and costs; the committee closed the work session and carried the bill over for a later date.
Chair Lively opened a work session on House Bill 2961, a bill that would modify state building-code requirements for electrical service capacity and EV charging in newly constructed multifamily or mixed-use residential buildings. The bill, as amended in a dash-4 under consideration in committee, raised the minimum building size that triggers an installed charger requirement from five residential units to ten and set a 20% ratio for the number of parking spaces required to have chargers installed and ready to use.
Committee members debated the scope and cost implications of the dash-4 amendment. Representative Grama explained the dash-4 removes broader infrastructure requirements not already in building code and requires an installed charger only for buildings with…
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