Bill Text: TX SB533 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a review of cost savings to state agencies and institutions of higher education under energy savings performance contracts.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB533 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB533-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 533 | ||
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| relating to a review of cost savings to state agencies and | ||
| institutions of higher education under energy savings performance | ||
| contracts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.927, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: | ||
| (l) The guidelines established under Subsection (i) must | ||
| require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to: | ||
| (1) review any reports submitted to the board that | ||
| measure and verify cost savings to an institution of higher | ||
| education under an energy savings performance contract; and | ||
| (2) based on the reports, provide an analysis, on a | ||
| periodic basis, of the cost savings under the energy savings | ||
| performance contract to the governing board of the institution of | ||
| higher education and the Legislative Budget Board until the | ||
| governing board of the institution of higher education determines | ||
| that the analysis is no longer required to accurately measure cost | ||
| savings. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2166.406, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: | ||
| (l) The guidelines adopted under Subsection (i) must | ||
| require the State Energy Conservation Office to: | ||
| (1) review any reports submitted to the office that | ||
| measure and verify cost savings to a state agency under an energy | ||
| savings performance contract; and | ||
| (2) based on the reports, provide an analysis, on a | ||
| periodic basis, of the cost savings under the energy savings | ||
| performance contract to the state agency and the Legislative Budget | ||
| Board until the state agency determines that the analysis is no | ||
| longer required to accurately measure cost savings. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 533 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 27, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 533 passed the House on | ||
| May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
