SB54 Session 2025r1 In Senate Committee

Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more.

Summary

Digest: This Act makes landlords provide cooling for homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more. Requires, by January 1, 2036, that all landlords provide indoor cooling. Makes cooling an "essential service" for residential tenants. Sunsets, on January 1, 2036, the requirement that the Housing and Community Services Department provide cooling information for landlords. Sunsets, on January 1, 2036, the requirement that the State Department of Energy provide grants for landlords to provide community cooling spaces.