US Congress House Bill 1268 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: Engrossed on March 15 2016 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-15 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Pending: Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Energy Efficient Government Technology Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require each federal agency to coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop an implementation strategy for the maintenance, purchase, and use by the agency of energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies. The OMB must establish performance goals for evaluating the efforts of agencies in improving the maintenance, purchase, and use of the technology. The executive branch's Chief Information Officers Council must recommend best practices for attaining the performance goals, including consideration of the use of energy savings performance and utility energy services contracting. Agencies must include in their annual government efficiency status reports a description of those energy-saving efforts and their results, and the OMB must begin to include in its annual government efficiency report a description of agencies' efforts and results. (Sec. 3) DOE must make available to the public an update to the Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency published on August 2, 2007, that includes analyses of the impact of newer information technologies and computing methods and water usage by data centers. In collaboration with key stakeholders and the OMB, DOE must also: (1) maintain a data center energy practitioner program that leads to the certification of energy practitioners qualified to evaluate the energy usage and efficiency opportunities in federal data centers; and (2) establish an open data initiative to make information about federal data center energy usage available and accessible while encouraging data center innovation, optimization, and consolidation. In collaboration with key stakeholders, DOE must: (1) participate in efforts to harmonize global specifications and metrics for data center energy and water efficiency, and (2) facilitate the development of a metric for data center energy efficiency.

Energy Efficient Government Technology Act

Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R-IL]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-15	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2016-03-14	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2016-03-14	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1305-1306)
2016-03-14	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1268.
2016-03-14	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1305-1307)
2016-03-14	House	Mr. Whitfield moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2016-02-25	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
2016-02-25	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2016-02-24	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2015-03-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
2015-03-04	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2015-03-04	House	Introduced in House

SB720 (Related) 2015-09-09 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 210.
HB2177 (Related) 2015-08-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
SB1706 (Related) 2015-07-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB8 (Related) 2015-12-07 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB873 (Related) 2015-02-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
SB128 (Related) 2015-01-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1268/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1268/BILLS-114hr1268ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1268/BILLS-114hr1268eh.pdf