87R7289 MWC-D
 
  By: Raymond H.B. No. 2158
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a study on energy-efficient and energy-saving
  information technologies.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
               (1)  "Commission" means the Texas Facilities
  Commission.
               (2)  "State agency" means a department, commission,
  board, office, council, authority, or other agency in the
  executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government,
  including a university system or institution of higher education as
  defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, that is created by the
  constitution or a statute of this state.
         SECTION 2.  STUDY REGARDING ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND
  ENERGY-SAVING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. (a) In collaboration with
  the Department of Information Resources, the commission shall
  conduct a study to develop a strategy for the maintenance,
  purchase, and use by a state agency of energy-efficient and
  energy-saving information technologies at state-owned and
  state-operated facilities.
         (b)  In conducting the study, the commission shall consider:
               (1)  advanced metering infrastructure;
               (2)  energy-efficient data center strategies and
  methods of increasing asset and infrastructure use;
               (3)  advanced power management tools;
               (4)  building information modeling, including building
  energy management;
               (5)  secure telework and travel substitution
  technologies; and
               (6)  mechanisms to ensure that a state agency realizes
  the agency's energy cost savings achieved through use of
  energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies.
         (c)  The study must identify:
               (1)  performance goals for evaluating the efforts of
  state agencies in improving the maintenance, purchase, and use of
  energy-efficient and energy-saving information technology;
               (2)  recommended best practices for use in improving
  the maintenance, purchase, and use of energy-efficient and
  energy-saving information technology;
               (3)  the steps necessary to implement recommended best
  practices; and
               (4)  the benefits to this state in implementing the
  recommended best practices.
         SECTION 3.  REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE. Not later than
  December 1, 2022, the commission shall submit a report to the
  governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
  representatives, and each standing committee of the legislature
  with jurisdiction over state-owned and state-operated facilities
  that includes the results of the study and any recommendations of
  the commission related to the study and statutory changes necessary
  to implement needed changes to those facilities.
         SECTION 4.  EXPIRATION. This Act expires September 1, 2023.
         SECTION 5.  EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
  1, 2021.