Plain English Breakdown
The official status indicates the bill passed both chambers, but no effective date is provided in the metadata or summary.
Expanding Appliance Efficiency Rules to Rentals and Leases
This law expands existing energy efficiency rules for new appliances in California to also cover renting, leasing, importing, and distributing them.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to set minimum operating efficiency standards for certain appliances that use a significant amount of energy or water.
- Allows the commission to create other cost-effective measures to promote the use of these efficient appliances.
- Prohibits renting, leasing, importing, distributing, or offering any of these actions for new appliances unless manufacturers certify they meet current standards.
Who It Names or Affects
- Manufacturers of energy- and water-using appliances
- Businesses that rent, lease, import, distribute, or offer to do so with these appliances in California
- The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
Terms To Know
- State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission)
- The state agency that creates rules for how much energy or water appliances can use.
- Cost-effective measures
- Actions the commission may require to help save energy or water, as authorized by existing law.
Limits and Unknowns
- The text does not list specific types of appliances covered beyond those requiring significant amounts of energy or water.
- The source material does not state when this law will officially take effect.
- It is unclear from the summary how enforcement actions would differ for rentals compared to sales.