Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB2778 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R7794 PAM-D
2	2	By: Farrar H.B. No. 2778
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the revision of building energy efficiency performance
8	8	standards.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Chapter 388, Health and Safety Code, is amended
11	11	by adding Section 388.0035 to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 388.0035. REVISION OF STANDARDS. (a) At least once
13	13	every five years, the State Energy Conservation Office shall
14	14	review:
15	15	(1) revisions made by the International Code Council
16	16	to the International Energy Conservation Code and the energy
17	17	efficiency chapter of the International Residential Code after May
18	18	1, 2001; and
19	19	(2) local amendments made to the codes or energy
20	20	efficiency programs that have strengthened energy efficiency
21	21	requirements.
22	22	(b) The review must be conducted in consultation with the
23	23	laboratory and an advisory committee established by the State
24	24	Energy Conservation Office.
25	25	(c) The State Energy Conservation Office by rule shall
26	26	establish a procedure for persons who have an interest in the
27	27	adoption of standards for energy efficiency under Sections
28	28	388.003(a) and (b) to have an opportunity to comment on the
29	29	standards under consideration. The office shall consider persons
30	30	who have an interest in adoption of standards to include:
31	31	(1) commercial and residential builders, architects,
32	32	and engineers;
33	33	(2) municipal, county, and other local governmental
34	34	authorities; and
35	35	(3) environmental groups.
36	36	(d) Following the completion of the review, the State Energy
37	37	Conservation Office by rule shall adopt revised standards for
38	38	energy efficiency to replace the standards under Sections
39	39	388.003(a) and (b).
40	40	(e) The revised standards must result in reducing either
41	41	projected annual or ozone season energy consumption in new
42	42	buildings by a minimum of 15 percent compared to the standards being
43	43	used at the time of the review.
44	44	(f) To achieve the goal of adopting standards by January 1,
45	45	2030, that will result in residential construction designed to
46	46	consume no more energy on a net annual basis than can be produced
47	47	on-site from renewable energy sources, the State Energy
48	48	Conservation Office and the advisory committee shall, not later
49	49	than January 1, 2011:
50	50	(1) conduct a study on the feasibility of reaching
51	51	that goal; and
52	52	(2) make recommendations to the legislature on a
53	53	schedule for adopting progressive standards to reach that goal.
54	54	SECTION 2. The following sections are repealed:
55	55	(1) Sections 388.003(b-1) and (b-2), Health and Safety
56	56	Code, as added by Section 3.01, Chapter 262 (S.B. 12), and Section
57	57	11, Chapter 939 (H.B. 3693), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular
58	58	Session, 2007; and
59	59	(2) Section 388.003(b-3), Health and Safety Code.
60	60	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
61	61	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
62	62	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
63	63	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
64	64	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.