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Sets minimum efficiency standards for common household products including computers, faucets, and showerheads. 

Establishes efficiency standards for products not federally preempted.

Updates and adopts standards for water efficiency and energy efficiency that apply to a list of consumer and commercial appliances and other products.

Allowed builders to select from multiple compliance pathways listed in an options table, only some of which touched on federally regulated appliances, so that it did not effectively require builders to exceed federal standards.

Requires an annual state report on appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards and resulting energy and utility bill savings.

Codified a list of product efficiency standards outside the federal purview directly into statute.

Adopts current federal energy-efficiency standards for appliances and equipment “so that the same standards will be in place in Vermont should the federal standards be repealed or voided.”

State law that automatically incorporates any federal efficiency standard that is “repealed or becomes inoperable, inapplicable, or otherwise invalid as federal law.”