(a) Using the moneys appropriated pursuant to Items 3360-105-0001 and 3360-005-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2021, the commission shall implement and administer a statewide program to incentivize the construction of new multifamily and single-family market-rate residential buildings as all-electric buildings or with energy storage systems. The commission shall provide a combined incentive if a building is both all electric and has an energy storage system.
(b) The program implemented and administered pursuant to this section shall be known as the Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program Phase 2.
(c) In implementing and administering the Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program Phase 2, the commission shall do all of the following:
(1) Before June 30, 2022, develop and approve program guidelines in a public process. The Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) does not apply to the development and approval of the guidelines.
(2) Make program applications available within 30 days of the commission approving the guidelines pursuant to paragraph (1).
(3) Ensure, to the extent reasonable, that the program incentivizes the construction of buildings as all electric or with energy storage systems that would not have otherwise been constructed as all electric or with energy storage systems but for the Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program Phase 2.
(4) Ensure, to the extent reasonable, that the program incentivizes the installation of technologies not otherwise required pursuant to the applicable local and state building codes.
(d) A goal of the Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program Phase 2 is to spur significant market adoption of all-electric buildings and energy storage systems.
(e) The commission may pay an incentive upfront if not doing so would inhibit participation in the Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program Phase 2.