2023 Senate Bill 274

Construction: other; strategic plan relating to greenhouse gas emissions reductions for new construction; require department of licensing and regulatory affairs to create.

A bill to require the development of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings; to promote payment of the prevailing wage rate on certain projects; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental entities.

Senate Fiscal Agency Analysis

The bill would enact a new law to require the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) to develop and update every three years the Michigan Construction Decarbonization Strategic Plan, which would have to provide construction guidance to achieve reduced greenhouse gas emissions in building renovations and zero building greenhouse gas emissions in all new building construction after 2026.