Florida Senate - 2020 SB 338
By Senator Rodriguez
37-00487-20 2020338__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to energy efficiency savings in state
3 agencies; amending s. 255.257, F.S.; revising the
4 energy consumption information each state agency is
5 required to provide to the Department of Management
6 Services to include transportation fleet energy
7 consumption information; requiring the state energy
8 management plan to include recommendations for state
9 agencies to improve energy efficiency by
10 transitioning, retrofitting, or replacing certain
11 inefficient facilities and fleets; requiring the
12 department, in consultation with the Department of
13 Agriculture and Consumer Services, to develop a
14 formula to calculate the savings to taxpayers as a
15 result of state agencies implementing the
16 recommendations in the state energy management plan;
17 requiring that such savings be used to encourage and
18 fund other energy efficiency and climate change
19 resiliency efforts in this state; making technical
20 changes; providing an effective date.
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22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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24 Section 1. Section 255.257, Florida Statutes, is amended to
25 read:
26 255.257 Energy management; buildings occupied by state
27 agencies.—
28 (1) ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND COST DATA.—Each state agency
29 shall collect data on energy consumption and cost for all state
30 owned facilities, and metered state-leased facilities, and state
31 transportation fleets. Such These data will be used in the
32 computation of the effectiveness of the state energy management
33 plan and the effectiveness of the energy management program of
34 each of the state agencies. Each state agency shall report the
35 collected data shall be reported annually to the department in a
36 format prescribed by the department.
37 (2) ENERGY MANAGEMENT COORDINATORS.—Each state agency, the
38 Florida Public Service Commission, the Department of Military
39 Affairs, and the judicial branch shall appoint a coordinator
40 whose responsibility shall be to advise the head of the state
41 agency on matters relating to energy consumption in facilities
42 under the control of that head or in space occupied by the
43 various units comprising that state agency, in vehicles operated
44 by that state agency, and in other energy-consuming activities
45 of the state agency. The coordinator shall implement the energy
46 management program agreed upon by the state agency concerned and
47 assist the department in the development of the state energy
48 management plan.
49 (3) CONTENTS OF THE STATE ENERGY MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The
50 Department of Management Services, in coordination with the
51 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shall include
52 at least all of the following elements in Further develop the
53 state energy management plan consisting of, but not limited to,
54 the following elements:
55 (a) Data-gathering requirements.;
56 (b) Building energy audit procedures.;
57 (c) Uniform data analysis and reporting procedures.;
58 (d) Employee energy education program measures.;
59 (e) Energy consumption reduction techniques.;
60 (f) A training program for state agency energy management
61 coordinators.; and
62 (g) Guidelines for building managers.
63 (h) The plan shall Include A description of actions that
64 state agencies shall take to reduce consumption of electricity
65 and nonrenewable energy sources used for space heating and
66 cooling, ventilation, lighting, water heating, and
67 transportation.
68 (i) Recommendations for state agencies to use new
69 technology to reduce energy usage by transitioning,
70 retrofitting, or replacing government-owned and government
71 leased facilities and transportation fleets.
72 (4) ENERGY SAVINGS FORMULA.—The department, in consultation
73 with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shall
74 develop a formula to determine the savings to this state’s
75 taxpayers through the implementation of the state energy
76 management plan and recommendations under subsection (3). The
77 department shall use the calculated value of such savings to
78 encourage and fund other energy efficiency and climate change
79 resiliency efforts within this state.
80 (5)(4) ADOPTION OF STANDARDS.—
81 (a) Each state agency shall use a sustainable building
82 rating system or a national model green building code for each
83 new building and renovation to an existing building.
84 (b) A No state agency may not shall enter into new leasing
85 agreements for office space that does not meet Energy Star
86 building standards, except when the appropriate state agency
87 head determines that no other viable or cost-effective
88 alternatives do not exist alternative exists.
89 (c) Each All state agency agencies shall develop energy
90 conservation measures and guidelines for new and existing office
91 space where state agencies occupy more than 5,000 square feet.
92 These conservation measures shall focus on programs that may
93 reduce energy consumption and, when established, provide a net
94 reduction in occupancy costs.
95 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.