Bill Text: TX HB3215 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to energy efficiency building standards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3215 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3215-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to energy efficiency building standards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3215 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3215-Comm_Sub.html
By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 3215 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2021; | ||
May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to energy efficiency building standards. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 388.003(i), (j), and (k), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(i) A building certified by a national, state, or local | ||
accredited energy efficiency program and determined by the | ||
laboratory to be in compliance with the energy efficiency | ||
requirements of this section may, at the option of the | ||
municipality, be considered in compliance. The United States | ||
Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program | ||
certification of energy code equivalency shall be considered in | ||
compliance. A home energy rating system index utilizing Standard | ||
301 of the American National Standard for the Calculation and | ||
Labeling of the Energy Performance of Dwelling and Sleeping Units | ||
using an Energy Rating Index, commonly cited as ANSI/RESNET/ICC | ||
301, as it existed on January 1, 2021, [ |
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as described by Subsection (j) shall be considered in compliance | ||
provided that: | ||
(1) the building meets the mandatory requirements of | ||
Section R406.2 of the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code; | ||
and | ||
(2) the building thermal envelope is equal to or | ||
greater than the levels of efficiency and solar heat gain | ||
coefficient in Table R402.1.2 or Table R402.1.4 of the 2018 | ||
International Energy Conservation Code. | ||
(j) For the purposes of this chapter, Standard 301 of the | ||
American National Standard for the Calculation and Labeling of the | ||
Energy Performance of Dwelling and Sleeping Units using an Energy | ||
Rating Index, commonly cited as ANSI/RESNET/ICC 301, as it existed | ||
on January 1, 2021, [ |
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compliance for single-family residential construction [ |
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as follows: | ||
(1) for climate zone 2, an energy rating index of: | ||
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August 31, 2022; [ |
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2022; | ||
(C) 57 or lower on or after September 1, 2025; and | ||
(D) 55 or lower on or after September 1, 2028; | ||
(2) for climate zone 3, an energy rating index of: | ||
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August 31, 2022; [ |
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(B) [ |
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2022; [ |
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(C) 57 or lower on or after September 1, 2025; and | ||
(D) 55 or lower on or after September 1, 2028; and | ||
(3) for climate zone 4, an energy rating index of: | ||
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August 31, 2022; [ |
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(B) [ |
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2022; | ||
(C) 61 or lower on or after September 1, 2025; and | ||
(D) 59 or lower on or after September 1, 2028. | ||
(k) This subsection and Subsection (j) expire September 1, | ||
2031 [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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