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SB54 • 2025

Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more.

Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more.

Housing
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The plain English breakdown is still being put together. The official documents below are already here.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-03-24 Senate

    Public Hearing held.

  3. 2025-03-19 Senate

    Public Hearing held.

  4. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Housing and Development, then Ways and Means.

  5. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act makes landlords provide cooling for homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3).
Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more. Requires, by January 1, 2036, that all landlords provide indoor cooling.
Makes cooling an "essential service" for residential tenants.
Sunsets, on January 1, 2036, the requirement that the Housing and Community Services Department provide cooling information for landlords. Sunsets, on January 1, 2036, the requirement that the State Department of Energy provide grants for landlords to provide community cooling spaces.
Relating to: Relating to cooling for residential tenancies.
Current location: In Senate Committee