By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 913
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2015; March 9, 2015, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  April 8, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 8, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to energy and water management planning and reporting
  requirements for state agencies and institutions of higher
  education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 447.009(c) and (e), Government Code,
  are amended to read as follows:
         (c)  The state energy conservation office shall prepare
  guidelines for preparation of the plan described in Subsection
  (a)(3) and develop a template for state agencies and institutions
  of higher education to use in creating the plan.  Each state agency
  and institution of higher education shall set percentage goals for
  reducing the agency's or institution's use of water, electricity,
  transportation fuel [gasoline], and natural gas and include those
  goals in the agency's or institution's comprehensive energy and
  water management plan.  A state agency or an institution of higher
  education that occupies a state-owned building shall prepare and
  implement a five-year energy and water management plan and shall
  submit that plan to the office upon request.  The agency or
  institution shall update its plan annually.  A state agency or an
  institution of higher education that occupies a building not owned
  by the state shall cooperate with the office in addressing the
  energy or water management of that building.
         (e)  Not later than January 15 [December 1] of each
  odd-numbered [even-numbered] year, the state energy conservation
  office shall submit a report to the governor and the Legislative
  Budget Board on the status and effectiveness of the utility
  management and conservation efforts of state agencies and
  institutions of higher education.  The report must include
  information submitted to the office from each state agency and
  institution of higher education.  The office shall post the report
  on the office's Internet website.
         SECTION 2.  Section 2166.409, Government Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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