Bill Text: TX HB2919 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to an energy efficiency pilot program for state-owned buildings operated by the Texas Facilities Commission.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-25 - Left pending in committee [HB2919 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2919-Engrossed.html
By: Raney, Anchia, Darby, Murphy, Hughes | H.B. No. 2919 |
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relating t | ||
o an energy efficiency pilot program for state-owned | ||
buildings operated by the Texas Facilities Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 2166, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2166.410 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2166.410. ENERGY EFFICIENCY PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
Energy Systems Laboratory at the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment | ||
Station, in consultation with the commission and the State Energy | ||
Conservation Office, shall establish and implement a pilot program | ||
in which: | ||
(1) the State Energy Conservation Office makes or | ||
guarantees loans used to finance improvements that will increase | ||
the energy efficiency of state-owned buildings; | ||
(2) the savings in utility costs resulting from the | ||
improvements made under Subdivision (1) generate a 30 percent | ||
return on the costs of the improvements; and | ||
(3) not fewer than two companies selected by the | ||
commission are authorized to participate. | ||
(b) A loan made or guaranteed under this section must have | ||
an amortization period twice as long as the projected period in | ||
which the loan could be repaid with utility cost savings | ||
attributable to the improvements made under this section. | ||
(c) Money attributable to utility cost savings resulting | ||
from improvements made to a building under the program may be | ||
appropriated only to the governmental entity that owns the building | ||
in which the utility cost savings occur. | ||
(d) This section expires August 31, 2020. | ||
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. |