By: Paddie, Anchia, Villalba	H.B. No. 1184

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to authorizing certain utility cost savings and
	alternative fuel programs as eligible for local government energy
	savings performance contracts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 302.001, Local Government Code, is
	amended by amending Subdivision (4) and adding Subdivision (9-a) to
	read as follows:
	(4)  "Energy savings performance contract" means a
	contract between a local government and a provider for energy or
	water conservation or usage measures in which the estimated energy
	savings, utility cost savings, increase in billable revenues, or
	increase in meter accuracy resulting from the measures is subject
	to guarantee to offset the cost of the energy or water conservation
	or usage measures over a specified period. The term includes a
	contract related to the pilot program described by Subdivision
	(9-a) and a contract for the installation or implementation of the
	following in new or existing facilities, including all causally
	connected work:
	(A)  insulation of a building structure and
	systems within the building;
	(B)  storm windows or doors, caulking or weather
	stripping, multiglazed windows or doors, heat-absorbing or
	heat-reflective glazed and coated window or door systems, or other
	window or door system modifications that reduce energy consumption;
	(C)  automatic energy control systems, including
	computer software and technical data licenses;
	(D)  heating, ventilating, or air-conditioning
	system modifications or replacements that reduce energy or water
	consumption;
	(E)  lighting fixtures that increase energy
	efficiency;
	(F)  energy recovery systems;
	(G)  electric systems improvements;
	(H)  water-conserving fixtures, appliances, and
	equipment or the substitution of non-water-using fixtures,
	appliances, and equipment;
	(I)  water-conserving landscape irrigation
	equipment;
	(J)  landscaping measures that reduce watering
	demands and capture and hold applied water and rainfall, including:
	(i)  landscape contouring, including the use
	of berms, swales, and terraces; and
	(ii)  the use of soil amendments that
	increase the water-holding capacity of the soil, including compost;
	(K)  rainwater harvesting equipment and equipment
	to make use of water collected as part of a storm-water system
	installed for water quality control;
	(L)  equipment for recycling or reuse of water
	originating on the premises or from other sources, including
	treated municipal effluent;
	(M)  equipment needed to capture water from
	nonconventional, alternate sources, including air-conditioning
	condensate or graywater, for nonpotable uses;
	(N)  metering or related equipment or systems that
	improve the accuracy of billable-revenue-generation systems; [or]
	(O)  alternative fuel programs resulting in
	energy cost savings and reduced emissions for local government
	vehicles, including fleet vehicles;
	(P)  programs resulting in utility cost savings;
	or
	(Q)  other energy or water conservation-related
	improvements or equipment, including improvements or equipment
	relating to renewable energy or nonconventional water sources or
	water reuse.
	(9-a)  "Pilot program" means a pilot program operated
	by the Energy Systems Laboratory at the Texas A&M Engineering
	Experiment Station, in consultation with the Texas Facilities
	Commission and the State Energy Conservation Office, that:
	(A)  establishes and implements energy efficiency
	improvements to state-owned buildings maintained by the
	commission;
	(B)  generates savings in utility costs resulting
	from the improvements resulting in at least a 30 percent return on
	the costs of the improvements; and
	(C)  provides for any money attributable to
	utility cost savings resulting from the pilot program to only be
	appropriated to the commission.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.