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Building Code Council flags risks in several bills, agrees to send testimony on energy-code language
Summary
At its Jan. 29 legislative committee meeting, the State Building Code Council reviewed bills on embodied carbon, kit homes, wildfire risk maps and an energy-cost bill (2486) that members said could undercut the state's energy goals; the council agreed to provide targeted written and oral comments to the Legislature.
OLYMPIA — The State Building Code Council legislative committee spent much of its Jan. 29 meeting reviewing proposed legislation that members said could conflict with current code-development timelines and limit the council’s ability to meet state energy-performance targets.
Staff opened the session with a walkthrough of the tracking spreadsheet and highlighted several bills of interest, including an embodied carbon measure (2273), a low-rise residential/performance-code bill (2381), a Kit Homes bill (5552) and a wildland-urban interface measure (6279). Dustin, the council’s staff lead, explained the sheet’s highlighting and where members should look for new or changed language.
Why it matters: Members said several bills, if enacted as written, could remove the flexibility the council now has to refine standards through rulemaking and could force the…
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