PHOENIX—A bill supported by NAIOP Arizona and a coalition of 10 other industry groups prohibiting a municipality from requiring an owner, operator or tenant of a business, commercial building or multifamily property from measuring and reporting energy usage and consumption or face a fine was signed by Governor Doug Ducey.
SB 1241, sponsored by Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, and amended by Rep. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, pre-empts cities from enacting this type of mandatory reporting. Ducey signed the bill on Monday.
“These types of costly energy reporting ordinances are hard to comply with as they force property owners to collect information for dozens of tenants who view this type of information as private or proprietary,” says Tim Lawless, president of NAIOP Arizona.
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