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Assembly committee advances bill to establish state policy on safe indoor temperatures
Summary
Lawmakers advanced SB 655 to encourage state agencies to consider maximum indoor temperatures in housing programs and regulations; the bill sets a policy goal rather than a numeric mandate and passed out of the committee as amended.
SB 655, authored in the Senate and heard today by the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, would establish a state policy that state agencies consider the goal that residential dwelling units be able to maintain a safe maximum indoor temperature.
Supporters said the bill addresses an identified public-health gap: existing California law sets minimum indoor temperature protections for cold weather but contains no complementary statewide policy to protect residents from extreme indoor heat. Senator Stern, the bill’s author, told the committee the measure "will establish a state policy that all residential dwelling units shall be able to maintain a safe maximum indoor temperature." She said the bill is a policy-setting first step and not intended as an immediate numeric mandate tied to enforcement.
The bill directs relevant state agencies to factor an objective of safe indoor temperatures into program…
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