Bill Text: TX HB1184 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain utility cost savings and alternative fuel programs as eligible for local government energy savings performance contracts.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB1184 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1184-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1184 |
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relating to authorizing certain utility cost savings and | ||
alternative fuel programs as eligible for local government energy | ||
savings performance contracts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 302.001, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subdivision (4) and adding Subdivision (9-a) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(4) "Energy savings performance contract" means a | ||
contract between a local government and a provider for energy or | ||
water conservation or usage measures in which the estimated energy | ||
savings, utility cost savings, increase in billable revenues, or | ||
increase in meter accuracy resulting from the measures is subject | ||
to guarantee to offset the cost of the energy or water conservation | ||
or usage measures over a specified period. The term includes a | ||
contract related to the pilot program described by Subdivision | ||
(9-a) and a contract for the installation or implementation of the | ||
following in new or existing facilities, including all causally | ||
connected work: | ||
(A) insulation of a building structure and | ||
systems within the building; | ||
(B) storm windows or doors, caulking or weather | ||
stripping, multiglazed windows or doors, heat-absorbing or | ||
heat-reflective glazed and coated window or door systems, or other | ||
window or door system modifications that reduce energy consumption; | ||
(C) automatic energy control systems, including | ||
computer software and technical data licenses; | ||
(D) heating, ventilating, or air-conditioning | ||
system modifications or replacements that reduce energy or water | ||
consumption; | ||
(E) lighting fixtures that increase energy | ||
efficiency; | ||
(F) energy recovery systems; | ||
(G) electric systems improvements; | ||
(H) water-conserving fixtures, appliances, and | ||
equipment or the substitution of non-water-using fixtures, | ||
appliances, and equipment; | ||
(I) water-conserving landscape irrigation | ||
equipment; | ||
(J) landscaping measures that reduce watering | ||
demands and capture and hold applied water and rainfall, including: | ||
(i) landscape contouring, including the use | ||
of berms, swales, and terraces; and | ||
(ii) the use of soil amendments that | ||
increase the water-holding capacity of the soil, including compost; | ||
(K) rainwater harvesting equipment and equipment | ||
to make use of water collected as part of a storm-water system | ||
installed for water quality control; | ||
(L) equipment for recycling or reuse of water | ||
originating on the premises or from other sources, including | ||
treated municipal effluent; | ||
(M) equipment needed to capture water from | ||
nonconventional, alternate sources, including air-conditioning | ||
condensate or graywater, for nonpotable uses; | ||
(N) metering or related equipment or systems that | ||
improve the accuracy of billable-revenue-generation systems; [ |
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(O) alternative fuel programs resulting in | ||
energy cost savings and reduced emissions for local government | ||
vehicles, including fleet vehicles; | ||
(P) programs resulting in utility cost savings; | ||
or | ||
(Q) other energy or water conservation-related | ||
improvements or equipment, including improvements or equipment | ||
relating to renewable energy or nonconventional water sources or | ||
water reuse. | ||
(9-a) "Pilot program" means a pilot program operated | ||
by the Energy Systems Laboratory at the Texas A&M Engineering | ||
Experiment Station, in consultation with the Texas Facilities | ||
Commission and the State Energy Conservation Office, that: | ||
(A) establishes and implements energy efficiency | ||
improvements to state-owned buildings maintained by the | ||
commission; | ||
(B) generates savings in utility costs resulting | ||
from the improvements resulting in at least a 30 percent annual | ||
return on the costs of the improvements; | ||
(C) provides for the participation of not fewer | ||
than two companies selected by the commission; and | ||
(D) provides for any money attributable to | ||
utility cost savings resulting from the pilot program to be | ||
appropriated only to the commission. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1184 was passed by the House on April | ||
13, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 9, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1184 on May 29, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 12, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1184 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |