Energy efficiency and climate standards; more stringent energy efficiency and climate requirements.

Energy efficiency and climate standards; morestringent energy efficiency and climate requirements. Allowsa locality by ordinance to adopt and require compliance with stretchcodes, as defined in the bill, for the construction or rehabilitationof buildings within the locality that are in addition to or more stringentthan those in the Uniform Statewide Building Code, and use them asan alternative means of compliance with a locality's building requirements.The bill requires periodic review of the codes and allows the localityto make amendments.