Bill Commons

CA AB 2612

in committee

Building standards: qualified plug-in photovoltaic systems.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law, until January 1, 2033, requires the commission and the department, commencing with the next triennial edition of the code adopted after January 1, 2023, to research and develop, and authorizes the commission and the department to propose for adoption by the commission, mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential developments, as specified. This bill would authorize the commission, commencing with the first triennial edition of the code adopted after June 1, 2031, to adopt, approve, codify, and publish building energy standards for building electrical circuit features to enable a qualified plug-in photovoltaic system, as defined, to function as an energy source within the electrical circuit of a single-family residential dwelling, multiunit residential dwelling, or nonresidential development, that is constructed after that edition is adopted, as specified. The bill would, for purposes of that requirement, require the department to research, develop, and propose for adoption building standards for a qualified plug-in photovoltaic system to function as an energy source within the electrical circuit of a single-family residential dwelling, multiunit residential dwelling, or nonresidential development, as specified. The bill would require the commission and the department, in satisfying those requirements, to, among other things, consult with certain interested parties and invite the participation of the public at large in the development of those building energy standards through open consensus-based processes.

Introduced
2026-04-06
Status date
Latest action
2026-06-29 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Schultzauthor
  • Rogerscoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-20

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2026-02-21

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  3. 2026-03-16

    Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and U. & E.

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  4. 2026-04-06

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.

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  5. 2026-04-07

    Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

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  6. 2026-04-15

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 15).

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  7. 2026-04-16

    Read second time and amended.

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  8. 2026-04-20

    Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

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  9. 2026-04-23

    Coauthors revised.

  10. 2026-04-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  11. 2026-05-13

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  12. 2026-05-14

    Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5030.)

  13. 2026-05-14

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 14).

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  14. 2026-05-18

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  15. 2026-05-19

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  16. 2026-05-26

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 5.)

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  17. 2026-05-27

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  18. 2026-06-10

    Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

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  19. 2026-06-25

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24).

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  20. 2026-06-29

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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Versions

  • 02/20/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-20Compare
  • 04/06/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-06Compare
  • 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-16Compare
  • 05/18/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-05-18Compare
  • 06/29/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-29Compare
  • AB2612Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy]

    2026-04-15 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Patterson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Garcia: yes
  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2026-04-22 · pass · 18-0

    Member-level votes (18)
    • Boerner: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
  • Do pass as amended.

    2026-05-14 · pass · 11-1

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Krell: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Tangipa: no
    • Ta: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Hoover: other
  • AB 2612 Schultz Assembly Third Reading

    2026-05-27 · pass · 70-5

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Ward: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Hadwick: no
    • Ellis: no
    • Jeff Gonzalez: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Flora: other
    • Lackey: other
    • Johnson: other
    • Muratsuchi: other
    • Celeste Rodriguez: other
  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2026-06-24 · pass · 10-0

    Member-level votes (10)
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Padilla: yes

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