District of Columbia legislation · 26th Council
District of Columbia PR783: Net Zero Continuity Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2026
Status: Passed both chambers, July 14, 2026
What the bill says
A resolution 26-491 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA July 14, 2026 To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Green Building Act of 2006 to exempt certain District-owned and -funded residential and nonresidential projects from complying with net-zero-energy standards and to modify net-zero-energy standard compliance requirements for nonresidential and residential projects; to amend section 2 of the Clean Energy DC Building Code Amendment Act of 2022 to modify the definition of the net-zero-energy standard and the types of projects to which the net-.
From the enrolled text, July 14, 2026:
A RESOLUTION 26-491 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA July 14, 2026 To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Green Building Act of 2006 to exempt certain District-owned and -funded residential and nonresidential projects from complying with net-zero-energy standards and to modify net-zero-energy standard compliance requirements for nonresidential and residential projects; to amend section 2 of the Clean Energy DC Building Code Amendment Act of 2022 to modify the definition of the net-zero-energy standard and the types of projects to which the net-zeroenergy standard applies; and for other purposes. RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Net Zero Continuity Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2026". Sec. 2. (a) On January 12, 2023, Mayor Bowser signed into law the Greener Government Buildings Amendment Act of 2022, effective March 10, 2023 (D.C. Law 24-306; 70 DCR 658) ("GGBA"), which amended the Green Building Act of 2006 to require construction of new or substantially improved projects owned or financed by the District to adhere to a net-zero-energy ("NZE") standard. (b) Since passage of the GGBA, the Council has enacted several pieces of non-permanent legislation exempting District-financed affordable housing projects from the requirements of the GGBA in order to ensure predictability in project design and …