Bill Text: CT HB05524 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Making A Technical Revision To A Statute Concerning Construction And Public Works.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-15 - Public Hearing 03/19 [HB05524 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05524-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5524
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 2049
		*02049_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT MAKING A TECHNICAL REVISION TO A STATUTE CONCERNING CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC WORKS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (m) of section 4b-23 of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(m) (1) Plans to construct, renovate or modify state-owned or occupied buildings shall provide for a portion of the total planned floor area of newly constructed state buildings or buildings constructed specifically for use by the state to be served by renewable sources of energy, including solar, wind, water and biomass sources, for use in space heating and cooling, domestic hot water and other applications. For the plan due December 1, 1979, the portion to be served by renewable energy sources shall be not less than five per cent of total planned new floor area. For each succeeding state facilities plan submitted after December 1, 1979, the portion of the total planned floor area of any additional newly constructed state buildings or buildings constructed specifically for use by the state to be served by renewable energy sources shall be increased by at least five per cent per year until a goal of fifty per cent of total planned floor area of any additional newly constructed state buildings or buildings constructed specifically for use by the state is reached. For any facility served by renewable energy sources in accordance with this subsection, not less than thirty per cent of the total energy requirements of any specific energy application, including, but not limited to, space heating or cooling and providing domestic hot water, shall be provided by renewable energy sources. The installation in newly constructed state buildings or buildings constructed specifically for use by the state of systems using renewable energy sources in accordance with this subsection, shall be subject to the life-cycle cost analysis provided for in section 16a-38. (2) The state shall fulfill the obligations imposed by subdivision (1) of this [section] subsection unless such action would cause an undue economic hardship to the state.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	4b-23(m)

Statement of Purpose:

To make a technical change.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]