RI HB 7530
deadAN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE
Rhode Island · 2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
Exempts homes under two thousand (2,000) square feet from automatic statewide IECC energy mandates, allowing municipalities to decide whether to adopt climate-focused building code requirements for small and modest homes.
- Introduced
- 2026-02-06
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2026-03-25 — 03/25/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Hopkinsprimary
- Cotterprimary
- Chippendaleprimary
- Placeprimary
- Perezprimary
- Paplauskasprimary
- Santucciprimary
- Nardoneprimary
- Fasciaprimary
- Quattrocchiprimary
Committees
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Action timeline
2026-02-06
02/06/2026 Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
introduction,referral-committee
2026-03-20
03/20/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/25/2026)
2026-03-25
03/25/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
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Versions
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Documents
Votes
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Related bills
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Attribution
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