Bill Text: IN HB1036 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Guaranteed energy savings contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-07 - First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government [HB1036 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-HB1036-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1036

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 36-1-12.5-3.

Synopsis: Guaranteed energy savings contracts. Provides that qualified providers eligible to enter into guaranteed energy savings contracts with local government entities also include persons providing energy conservation design services by a licensed architect. (Current law limits qualified providers to persons providing engineering services by a licensed professional engineer.)

Effective: July 1, 2013.

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Stemler

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    January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1036

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 36-1-12.5-3; ()IN1036.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 36-1-12.5-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.168-2006, SECTION 8, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 3. (a) As used in this chapter, "qualified provider" means the following:
        (1) Before July 1, 1999, the term means a person that satisfies both of the following:
            (A) The person is experienced in the design, implementation, and installation of energy conservation measures.
            (B) The person submits to the school corporation or political subdivision a performance bond to ensure the qualified provider's faithful performance of the qualified provider's obligations over the term of the guaranteed energy savings contract.
        (2) After June 30, 1999, the term means a person that satisfies all of the following:
            (A) Subject to subdivision (3), the person is experienced in the design, implementation, and installation of energy

conservation measures.
            (B) The person is certified and meets the requirements of IC 4-13.6-4. The person's response to the request for proposals must include a copy of the person's certificate of qualification issued under IC 4-13.6-4.
            (C) Subject to subdivision (3), the person provides energy conservation engineering design services by an architect or a professional engineer licensed under IC 25-4 or IC 25-31 who is under the person's direct employment and supervision. The person's response to the request for proposals must include the license number of each architect or professional engineer employed by the person to satisfy the requirement of this clause.
            (D) The person provides:
                (i) monitoring for the facility performance guarantee; and
                (ii) service personnel under the person's direct employment and supervision;
            for the duration of the contract's guarantee.
            (E) The person performs at least twenty percent (20%) of the work (measured in dollars of the total contract price) with its own workforce.
            (F) The person submits to the school corporation or political subdivision a performance bond to ensure the qualified provider's faithful performance of the qualified provider's obligations over the term of:
                (i) the guaranteed energy savings contract; or
                (ii) the guaranteed savings contract.
        (3) With respect to conservation measures for which a contract is executed after June 30, 2006, the term includes a person that satisfies the following:
            (A) The person is experienced in the design, implementation, and installation of conservation measures.
            (B) The person provides engineering design services with respect to conservation measures by an architect or a professional engineer licensed under IC 25-4 or IC 25-31 who is under the person's direct employment and supervision. The person's response to the request for proposals must include the license number of each architect or professional engineer employed by the person to satisfy the requirement of this clause.
    (b) For purposes of a guaranteed energy savings contract entered into before July 1, 1999, a person who was a qualified provider under

subsection (a)(1) at the time the contract was entered into remains a qualified provider for that contract after June 30, 1999. If the person enters into:
        (1) a guaranteed energy savings contract after June 30, 1999, and before July 1, 2006, the person must satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(2); or
        (2) a guaranteed savings contract after June 30, 2006, the person must satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(2) and (a)(3);
to be considered a qualified provider.