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2022 SESSION
SB 290 State agencies and localities; solar-ready roof requirements, etc.
Introduced by: Barbara A. Favola | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, to ensure that such building includes a solar-ready, cool, or energy-efficient roof, defined in the bill. However, the provisions of the bill do not apply to localities with a population of less than 100,000 until July 1, 2023. The bill also requires new public school buildings and facilities and improvements and renovations to existing public school buildings and facilities where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building to, after notice is given to the governing body, be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated to generate more electricity than consumed. The provisions of this bill only apply to projects entering the design phase on or after January 1, 2023.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103777D pdf | impact statements
- 02/09/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106369D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103777D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/09/22 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (8-Y 6-N)
- 02/09/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106369D-S1
- 02/10/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/11/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22106369D-S1
- 02/11/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB290S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/24/22 House: Failed to refer to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/24/22 House: Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws (10-Y 12-N)