Second Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 10-0636.01 Richard Sweetman     HOUSE BILL 10-1406
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Kerr A.,  Summers, Merrifield, Middleton, Scanlan, Solano, Todd
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Education
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a requirement that public school structures
            satisfy minimum energy-efficiency design standards.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill requires newly constructed or redesigned school buildings
       and structures to satisfy minimum energy-efficiency design standards. 
       The state fire suppression administrator, in consultation with the
       governor's energy office, shall establish and adopt rules concerning
       energy-efficient design and construction of school buildings and
       structures, which rules, at a minimum, shall ensure that a school building
       or structure achieves a satisfactory certification rating based on an energy
       and environmental design rating system developed by a nonprofit trade
       organization.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Article 32 of title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
            22-32-124.3.  Energy-efficient design of school buildings
       required.  On and after January 1, 2011, each school district and
       each charter school shall ensure that a project to construct or
       redesign a building or structure, at a minimum, satisfies the
       rules established and adopted by the state fire suppression
       administrator in consultation with the governor's energy office
       pursuant to section 24-33.5-1204.5 (1) (f.5), C.R.S., concerning
       energy-efficient design and construction of school buildings
       and structures.
            SECTION 2.  24-33.5-1204.5 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
            24-33.5-1204.5.  Powers of administrator - rules.  (1)  In
       addition to any other duties and powers granted by this section or sections
       24-33.5-1206.2 and 24-33.5-1206.4, the administrator has the following
       duties and powers:
            (f.5)  To establish and adopt rules concerning
       energy-efficient design and construction of school buildings
       and structures, which rules, at a minimum, shall ensure that a
       school building or structure achieves a satisfactory
       certification rating based on an energy and environmental
       design rating system developed by a nonprofit trade
       organization.  The administrator shall consult with the
       governor's energy office created in section 24-38.5-101 in
       establishing and adopting the rules described in this paragraph
       (f.5).
            SECTION 3.  24-38.5-102 (1) (s), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended, and the said 24-38.5-102 (1) is further amended BY THE
       ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH, to read:
            24-38.5-102.  Governor's energy office - duties and powers. 
       (1)  The governor's energy office shall:
            (s)  Administer the green truck grant program pursuant to part 3 of
       article 1 of title 42, C.R.S.; and
            (t)  Advise the state fire suppression administrator
       concerning the adoption and establishment of rules for the
       energy-efficient design and construction of school buildings
       and structures pursuant to section 24-33.5-1204.5 (1) (f.5).
            SECTION 4.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
       shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       11, 2010, if adjournment sine die is on May 12, 2010); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2010 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.