The state energy conservation office must help state agencies and institutions of higher education plan energy and water management, and those entities must set percentage reduction goals and include them in their plans.
Sec. 447.009. ENERGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING; REPORTING. (a) The state energy conservation office shall provide energy and water management planning assistance to a state agency or an institution of higher education, including assistance to: (1) the Department of Public Safety for energy emergency contingency planning, using state or federal funds when available; and (2) each state agency or institution of higher education in preparing comprehensive energy and water management plans. (b) The state energy conservation office shall prepare guidelines for preparation of the plan described in Subsection (a)(2) 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, and natural gas and include those goals in the agency's or institution's comprehensive energy and water management plan. (c) The comprehensive energy and water management plan described in Subsection (a)(2) shall be included in the five-year construction and major repair and rehabilitation plans for institutions of higher education as required by Section 61.0651, Education Code. (d) Not later than January 15 of each odd-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. Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 52, art. 2, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 612, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.95(45), eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 698, Sec. 8, eff. Aug. 28, 1995; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 573, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1158, Sec. 28, eff. June 15, 2001; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1398, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Redesignated from Government Code Sec. 447.011 and reenacted and amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1310, Sec. 29, eff. June 20, 2003. Amended by: Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1332 (S.B. 700), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2013. Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 288 (S.B. 59), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.