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Senate committee advances bill to streamline state facility energy reporting
Summary
The Senate Committee on Energy and Environment voted to send Senate Bill 825 to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation after a brief work session. The bill narrows reporting requirements for state facility energy design and removes a biannual report requirement for the small-scale local energy loan program.
The Senate Committee on Energy and Environment on Feb. 17 voted to send Senate Bill 825 to the Senate floor with a "do pass" recommendation, advancing a measure that narrows reporting requirements for state agency facility energy design.
The bill, originally heard Feb. 5, would require the state program that oversees facility energy design to minimize duplicate reporting to state agencies and would remove a biannual reporting requirement from the Department of Energy for the small-scale local energy loan program funds. Committee staff said the measure has no fiscal or revenue impact as drafted.
Senator Brock Smith moved the measure to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation; there was no extended discussion before the roll was called. "Senator Goldman? Aye," the roll record shows, followed by recorded support from Senator Pham, Senator Robinson, Vice Chair Brock Smith and Chair Solman. The motion carried.
Committee members did not debate policy tradeoffs on the work session floor; the committee chair closed the work session after the vote and asked for a committee member to carry the bill to the Senate floor. Senator Robinson volunteered to carry it.
The bill text focuses on administrative cleanup rather than new program spending: it directs the energy-design program to reduce redundant reporting and removes the specific statutorily required biannual Department of Energy report on the small-scale local energy loan program. Committee staff repeatedly described the change as procedural and said there is no immediate fiscal impact unless the Legislature later appropriates funds to the program.
The committee recorded no amendments during the work session. Chair Solman closed the work session and said Senator Robinson would carry the bill to the floor.
