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AB 698: Energy: gas stoves.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2023-03-09

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-02-01: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law prohibits new residential-type gas appliances that are equipped with a pilot light from being sold in the state 24 months after an intermittent ignition device has been demonstrated and certified by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.

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 stoves in residential and nonresidential buildings.

The 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.

Existing law requires the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to prescribe minimum facility maintenance standards, as described, for all production facilities, as defined, in the state. Existing law authorizes the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, upon the supervisors determination or that of the district deputy that a production facility is being operated in violation of those standards, to issue a cease and desist order to a production facility operator requiring the operator to cease operation until the operator demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the supervisor, that the violation has been corrected.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that authorization.

News Coverage:

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