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Bill	Energy: building standards: passive house standards.	Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation design standards, for new residential and new nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 368	California AB 368 (20252026)	bill	Energy buildingstandards passivehousestandards	enacted	Ward	7	25	9	2025-02-03	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/38153bfb-a96e-40dd-980f-ad43962aa448	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB368	5bb69b1540168b4ac47751042177c07bf5c54d2c7e44e23a85861c68d45bdc1a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 368 (20252026) — Energy: building standards: passive house standards.

Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation, climate control system, and other building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation design standards, for new residential and new nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB368 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 368 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB368 Ward et al. By Becker — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 368 Ward Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ward — primary (person)
• Boerner — coauthor (person)
• Schultz — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2025-03-13 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1822.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on E., U & C. referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2616.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3104.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 145, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38153bfb-a96e-40dd-980f-ad43962aa448. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).