CA AB 368
enactedEnergy: building standards: passive house standards.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 368 pass?
Yes. CA AB 368 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 145, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 368 about?
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation design standards, for new residential and new nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, as specified. This bill would require the commission to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of passive house energy efficiency standards by California climate zone, using commission-adopted metrics such as long-term system cost. The bill would require the commission to evaluate the use of the 2 passive house energy models currently required for passive house certification in its analysis and the cost-effectiveness of passive house construction compared to existing construction, as specified. The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2028, to submit a report to the Legislature documenting its findings and recommendations.
Who sponsors CA AB 368?
Ward is the primary sponsor of CA AB 368, joined by 2 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation design standards, for new residential and new nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, as specified. This bill would require the commission to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of passive house energy efficiency standards by California climate zone, using commission-adopted metrics such as long-term system cost. The bill would require the commission to evaluate the use of the 2 passive house energy models currently required for passive house certification in its analysis and the cost-effectiveness of passive house construction compared to existing construction, as specified. The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2028, to submit a report to the Legislature documenting its findings and recommendations.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-03
- Latest action
- 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 145, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Wardauthor
- Boernercoauthor
- Schultzcoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-03
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-04
From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
2025-03-13
Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES.
referral-committee
2025-04-03
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 2).
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2025-04-07
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-08
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
referral-committee
2025-04-22
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-07
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1822.)
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2025-06-03
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Com. on E., U & C.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 7).
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2025-07-10
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
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2025-08-29
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-08-29
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-08
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2616.).
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2025-09-08
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-09
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3104.).
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2025-09-16
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 145, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-02 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Davies: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Chen: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Papan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Hart: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-21 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (14)
- Wicks: yes
- Flora: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Haney: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: other
AB 368 Ward Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ward: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Lee: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Papan: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Davies: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Berman: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ta: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Flora: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Addis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bains: yes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-07 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Becker: yes
- Dahle: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
3rd Reading AB368 Ward et al. By Becker
2025-09-08 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Wahab: yes
- Niello: yes
- Jones: yes
- Laird: yes
- Choi: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Limón: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grove: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Becker: yes
- Stern: other
AB 368 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-09 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Chen: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Flora: other
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