Bill Text: HI SB2753 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Building Codes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-06-21 - Act 057, 06/20/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1157). [SB2753 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2753-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO BUILDING CODES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
The legislature finds that certain refrigerants, including
hydrofluorocarbons, are potent greenhouse gases that can have an immense impact
on global warming. The legislature
further finds that the United States Congress passed the American Innovation
and Manufacturing Act of 2020, which mandates an eighty-five per cent phasedown
in hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants. The
legislature further finds that the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons includes
restricting the use of hydrofluorocarbons in certain applications and directing
the transition to hydrofluorocarbon substitutes. This phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons is
expected to reduce hydrofluorocarbon emissions by approximately 2.4 billion
metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2035 and avoid up to a one-half degree Celsius
global temperature increase by 2100.
The legislature further finds that building
codes across the country must be updated to comply with the American Innovation
and Manufacturing Act and the Environmental Protection Agency's rules and
regulations concerning the transition to hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant
alternatives. The building code updates
will provide the certainty that the manufacturing industry needs to comply with
federal regulations and ensure that the transition to alternate refrigerants is
safe and efficient.
The purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Clarify that no state or county building code shall prohibit the use of a substitute refrigerant allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency if the applicable equipment is listed and installed in compliance with any applicable safety standards and use conditions; and
(2) Require the state building code council, when adopting, amending, or updating the Hawaii state building codes, to establish codes and standards that are consistent with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons.
SECTION 2. Chapter 107, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§107- Refrigerant use. No provision of the Hawaii state building codes or any county building code shall prohibit or otherwise limit the use of a refrigerant designated as acceptable for use pursuant to title 42 United States Code section 7671k; provided that any equipment containing the refrigerant shall be listed and installed in accordance with any applicable safety standards and use conditions imposed for that equipment or refrigerant.
§107- Hawaii state building codes;
hydrofluorocarbons; update. When
adopting, amending, or updating the codes and standards identified in section
107-25, the council shall establish codes and standards that are consistent
with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with
hydrofluorocarbons."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
State Building Codes; County Building Codes; Refrigerants; Safe Alternatives; Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Description:
Clarifies that no state or county building code shall prohibit the use of a substitute refrigerant allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency if the applicable equipment is listed and installed in compliance with the latest safety standards. Requires the State Building Code Council, when it adopts, amends, or updates the Hawaii State Building Codes, to establish codes and standards that are consistent with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
