Bill Text: TX HB564 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 564

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a study on energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HB564 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB564-Introduced.html

	88R2726 SCP-D

	By: Raymond	H.B. No. 564



	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, 2024, 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, 2025.
	SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
	1, 2023.