Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing), in Part 11, Article IX of the bill, by adding the following appropriately numbered section and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly:

Sec. 11.____. Energy Efficiency Savings for State Facilities. (a) In this section, "facility" means a facility with at least 100,000 gross square feet.

(b)  It is the intent of the legislature that a state agency that is appropriated money by this Act with charge and control over a facility shall have a remote or on-site assessment of the facility performed by the Energy Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station or another qualified provider to determine whether implementation of continuous commissioning or existing building commissioning practices would result in estimated savings of at least 10 percent in utility costs for the facility. A state agency shall supply any documents necessary to perform the assessment. The state agency shall report to the Legislative Budget Board on the results of the assessment.

(c)  If the results of an assessment performed under Subsection (b) of this section show estimated utility cost savings of at least 10 percent, the state agency shall have the Energy Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station or another qualified provider prepare a plan for implementation of continuous commissioning or existing building commissioning practices and monitoring of the implementation for the state agency.

(d)  It is the intent of the legislature that, if funds appropriated by this Act are unavailable for this purpose, a state agency may enter into a contract for the implementation of continuous commissioning or existing building commissioning practices for a facility to be paid for from the estimated savings in utility costs resulting from the implementation of the practices.