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Bill	Building Energy Savings Act.	Existing law requires each utility to maintain records of the energy usage data of all buildings to which they provide service for at least the most recent 12 complete calendar months, and to deliver or otherwise provide that aggregated energy usage data for each covered building, as defined, to the owner, as specified. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt regulations providing for the delivery to the Energy Commission and public disclosure of benchmarking of energy use for covered buildings, and specifies that this requirement does not require the owner of a building with 16 or fewer residential utility accounts to collect or deliver energy usage information to the Energy Commission.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 48	California SB 48 (20232024)	bill	Building Energy Savings Act	enacted	Becker	11	36	9	2022-12-05	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/f61b0d9a-c6d3-4b4b-abf5-17a04f528e8d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB48	4fe1b9b080f38511e0b0778b177049f78746b5c200cff9846315a6fd1e4fabd5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 48 (20232024) — Building Energy Savings Act.

Existing law requires each utility to maintain records of the energy usage data of all buildings to which they provide service for at least the most recent 12 complete calendar months, and to deliver or otherwise provide that aggregated energy usage data for each covered building, as defined, to the owner, as specified. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt regulations providing for the delivery to the Energy Commission and public disclosure of benchmarking of energy use for covered buildings, and specifies that this requirement does not require the owner of a building with 16 or fewer residential utility accounts to collect or deliver energy usage information to the Energy Commission.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/30/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB48 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 10–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — 12–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB48 Becker Concurrence — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 48 Becker Senate Third Reading By Haney — 57–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2023-01-18 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-08 Re-referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2023-03-13 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2023-03-16 March 21 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-03-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 12. Noes 3. Page 637.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-05-01 May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1158.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 1263.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-01 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-06-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 17. Page 3394.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2800.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 378, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f61b0d9a-c6d3-4b4b-abf5-17a04f528e8d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).