Bill Text - HB352 (2017)

Relative to the energy efficiency fund.


Revision: June 19, 2017, 10:53 a.m.

CHAPTER 135

HB 352-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0213

06/09

 

HOUSE BILL 352-FN

 

AN ACT relative to the energy efficiency fund.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Richardson, Coos 4; Rep. Murotake, Hills. 32; Rep. Backus, Hills. 19; Rep. Shepardson, Ches. 10; Rep. Merner, Coos 7; Rep. S. Harvey, Hills. 29

 

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill changes the name of the energy efficiency fund to the energy fund.  This bill also adds project categories that may be funded by the energy fund.

 

This bill was requested by the department of environmental services.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0213

06/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to the energy efficiency fund.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

135:1  State Facility Energy Cost Reduction; Energy Efficiency Fund.  Amend RSA 21-I:19-f to read as follows:

21-I:19-f  Energy [Efficiency] Fund.  There is hereby established an energy [efficiency] fund into which shall only be deposited moneys received by the state for participating in demand response or utility or public utility commission programs, or both.  The state treasurer may invest moneys in the fund as provided by law, with interest received on such investment credited to the fund.  Moneys in the fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the division of plant and property to be used exclusively to fund energy efficiency or renewable energy projects and energy efficiency or renewable energy contracts; to reimburse the department of administrative services, division of public works design and construction, for costs of providing construction administration services including, but not limited to, design and oversight of design and construction of energy saving or renewable energy measures; and to reimburse state agencies for demand response program expenses or completing energy saving or renewable energy measures.

135:2  State Treasurer; Application of Receipts.  Amend RSA 6:12, I(b)(271) to read as follows:

(271)  Moneys deposited in the energy [efficiency] fund established in RSA 21-I:19-f.

135:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: June 16, 2017

Effective Date: August 15, 2017