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AB-2057 • 2026

Natural gas: appliances.

Natural gas: appliances.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
DeMaio
Last action
2026-04-09
Official status
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on the enforcement mechanisms or penalties for non-compliance with this law.

Natural Gas Appliance Use

This law stops state agencies and local governments from making rules that ban the use of gas appliances in homes or businesses.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits state agencies and local governments from creating rules, regulations, resolutions, or ordinances that directly or indirectly result in prohibiting the use of gas appliances in residential or nonresidential buildings.
  • Requires the California Building Standards Commission to reject any changes to building standards that would ban natural gas use in residential units.

Who It Names or Affects

  • State agencies and local governments
  • People who own or live in homes with natural gas appliances

Terms To Know

Building Standards Commission
A group that sets rules for how buildings should be built and used.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify the consequences of breaking the rules about using natural gas appliances.
  • It is unclear how this law will affect future changes to building standards related to energy use and safety.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-09 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  2. 2026-03-16 California Legislative Information

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

  3. 2026-03-12 California Legislative Information

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

  4. 2026-03-09 California Legislative Information

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

  5. 2026-02-19 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  6. 2026-02-18 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2057, as amended, DeMaio.
Building standards: natural gas.
Natural gas: appliances.
The Planning and Zoning Law enacts various laws relating to land use, including statewide land use planning, transportation planning, local planning, zoning regulations, and housing development, among other things.
This bill would prohibit state agencies and local governments from adopting or enforcing a rule, regulation, resolution, or ordinance that directly or indirectly results in prohibiting the use of gas appliances in residential or nonresidential buildings.
Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission)
within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation.
Existing law requires the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Existing law authorizes any city or county to make modifications or changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards, upon making an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. Existing law requires a copy of those findings, together with the modification or change, to be filed with the commission.
Existing law, from June 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibits a city or county from making a modification or change to the building standards described above that are applicable to residential units, unless one of specified conditions are met, and requires the commission to reject a modification or change to any building standard affecting a residential unit and filed by the governing body of a city or county, unless one of those specified conditions are met.
This bill would prohibit a city or county from making a change or modification to the above-described building standards that prohibits the use of natural gas in a residential unit. The bill would also require the commission to reject a modification or change to any building standard affecting a residential unit and filed by the governing body of a city or county that prohibits the use of natural gas in that residential unit.
This bill would
include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

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