Uniform Statewide Building Code; temporarily prohibit modifications to Code.

Energy efficiency standards; more stringentenergy efficiency requirements. Allows a locality by ordinanceto create and require stretch codes, as defined in the bill, as energyefficiency standards that are in addition to or more stringent thanthose in the Uniform Statewide Building Code, and use them as analternative means of compliance with a locality's building requirements.The bill requires periodic review of the codes and allows the localityto make amendments.