Prohibits the State Building Code Council from making substantial changes to the state building and energy codes more frequently than every six years.   Official Text and Analysis.

Allows the building codes and the energy codes to be amended more frequently than every six years to address embodied energy in a building.

Specifies that substantial amendments to the state building codes (Codes) may not be adopted more frequently than every six years, except that the Codes may be amended more frequently than every six years to account for embodied energy – the total amount of fossil fuel energy consumed to extract raw materials, and to manufacture, assemble, transport, and install the materials in a building. The State Building Council must review the Energy Code every six years. Substantial amendments to the Energy Code may not be adopted more frequently than every six years, except that the Energy Code may be amended more frequently than every six years to account for embodied energy – the total amount of fossil fuel energy consumed to extract raw materials, and to manufacture, assemble, transport, and install the materials in a building.