Reminder – The next BECS committee meeting will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, September 17-18, 2025, at the Homewood Suites in Bozeman. MT. 

International Code Council (ICC) Announces Program for its October Conference, Expo and Code Hearings to be held in Cleveland, Ohio from October 19 to October 30.

The ICC has announced the program for the upcoming events to be held in Cleveland, Ohio that include the Annual Conference from October 19-22, the Expo from October 19 & 20 and the Committee Action Hearings for the Group B Code from October 22 to 30. The detailed agenda for the 2025 Group B Committee Action Hearing #2 (CAH#2) will start on Wednesday at 10 AM Eastern Time (October 22, 2025).  The Group B series of codes include administrative provisions for all of the I Codes except the International Energy Conservation Code  (IECC), the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) and the International Residential Code (IRC), the International Building Code (IBC),  the International Existing Building Code (IEBC), International Property Maintenance and Zoning Code (IPM/ZC) and the IgCC.  The 2025 Report of the Committee Action hearing on the 2025 Editions of the B  Group can be found here .  AGA BECS staff will be participating in the Conference and Code Hearings and continue reviewing the Report of the Committee Actions hearings votes on all proposals to address any that may impact the direct use of natural gas for the built environment. Note that the ICC Group A codes that include the International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), the International Plumbing Code (IPC) and the International Mechanical Code (IMC) are not included in this code development process and are scheduled for review beginning next year.

AHAM Files a Motion for Injunctive Relieve from the Colorado Gas Stove Emissions Labeling bill, Federal Judge Declines to Block the Law , Suggest Challengers to Voluntarily Halt Enforcement for Now.

On August 5, the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) filed a motion for injunctive relieve from the Colorado gas stove labeling bill.  Colorado House Bill 1161 was signed into law in June that “ requires retailers of gas stoves to affix a “yellow adhesive label” that reads “UNDERSTAND THE AIR QUALITY IMPLICATIONS OF HAVING AN INDOOR GAS STOVE.” The label must also include a URL or QR code to a webpage created by the state’s health department that provides “credible, evidence-based information on the health impacts of gas-fueled stoves “. The motion filed by AHAM is attached. It both seeks to enforce manufacturer First Amendment rights to be free from unconstitutional compelled speech and to protect consumers from receiving misleading and inaccurate information about their products.

Some quotes from the motion:

• The overwhelming majority of available health research shows there is no association between gas stoves and adverse health outcomes, and—most critically—when evaluated collectively, fails to demonstrate causation. Indeed, the vast majority of studies concerning health outcomes relative to cooking fuel conclude that the potential health risks of cooking with gas are no different than cooking with electricity. As Dr. Stacey Benson, an independent epidemiologist specializing in environmental epidemiology, has testified in a declaration accompanying this motion, “To suggest there is a scientific consensus for such an association or causal relationship would be scientifically inappropriate and therefore factually inaccurate.”
• [A] District Judge in the Central District of California recently found that “there is no scientific consensus regarding” the purported “health risks” of using gas stoves, and, thus, forcing manufacturers to place a warning label on gas stoves “would be barred by the First Amendment.” Hedrick v. BSH Home Appliances Corp., No. 2:23-CV-04752-JWH-JDE, 2025 WL 1238363, at *6 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 28, 2025)
• [T]he overwhelming majority of epidemiological studies assessing whether there is any statistically significant association between gas stoves and adverse health effects have found none.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment posted its legislatively required notice on August 4. It is available here

However , on Monday, August 11, a federal judge declined to block the 2025 Colorado law that requires those health disclosures on new gas-fueled stoves, instead suggesting the state work with the challengers to voluntarily halt enforcement in the near-term. Additional information on this issue including an excerpt from the August 15, 2025, Colorado “Politics Newsletter” is attached.  We will provide updates on this issue when available. 

State Codes Activity Update.

Attached is a weekly feature of the “Friday Update” covering state code calendar activities as presented by the online utility “Fiscal Note,” which is sponsored by APGA and AGA Code and Standards. Please review the update and determine if there are state code activities that impact your service territory or organization.