US Congress Senate Bill 1706 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-07-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Pending: Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Energy Efficient Government Technology Act 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 of energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies. The OMB must establish performance goals for evaluating the efforts of federal agencies in improving the maintenance, purchase, and use of the technology. The Chief Information Officers Council must recommend best practices for attaining the performance goals. 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; carry out 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; carry out an open data initiative to make information about federal data center energy usage available and accessible in a manner that encourages data center innovation, optimization, and consolidation; participate in efforts to harmonize global specifications and metrics for data center energy efficiency; and facilitate in the development of an efficiency metric that measures the energy efficiency of a data center.

Energy Efficient Government Technology Act

Sen. James Risch [R-ID]

Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-07-07	Senate	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.
HB1268 (Related) 2016-03-15 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB2177 (Related) 2015-08-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
SB128 (Related) 2015-01-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
SB720 (Related) 2015-09-09 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 210.
SB2012 (Related) 2016-09-08 - Conference held.
HB8 (Related) 2015-12-07 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1706/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1706/BILLS-114s1706is.pdf