2010-04-10                     Senate Journal                      Page 2225
SB 220                                                                                                                        
The Finance Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 220 "An Act                                                                    
declaring a state energy policy; relating to energy efficiency and                                                              
alternative energy; establishing the energy efficiency grant fund, an                                                           
emerging energy technology fund, a renewable energy production tax                                                              
credit, and an energy use index; and relating to a fuel purchasing                                                              
cooperative, to energy codes and efficiency standards, to energy                                                                
conservation targets in public buildings, to a state agency energy use                                                          
reduction plan, to the alternative energy revolving loan fund, and to                                                           
the renewable energy grant fund" and recommended it be replaced                                                                 
with                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 220(FIN) "An Act relating to                                                                        
     energy efficiency, energy conservation, and alternative                                                                    
     energy, to an emerging energy technology fund, to the lease                                                                
     of state land to a public electric utility, to the Alaska heating                                                          
     assistance program, to state energy use data, to the Southeast                                                             
     energy fund, to nuclear energy production and facilities, to                                                               
     the definition of 'power project' or 'project' as it relates to                                                            
     rural and statewide energy programs and the Alaska Energy                                                                  
     Authority, and to the definition of 'alternative energy system';                                                           
     establishing an Alaska energy efficiency revolving loan fund;                                                              
     directing the Department of Transportation and Public                                                                      
     Facilities to prepare a report on the feasibility of using                                                                 
     compressed natural gas to power vehicles in the state,                                                                     
     including vehicles owned or operated by the state, and                                                                     
     including in that study, if warranted, a pilot program proposal                                                            
     for powering some vehicles owned or operated by the state                                                                  
     with compressed natural gas; authorizing and relating to the                                                               
     issuance of bonds by the Alaska Housing Finance                                                                            
     Corporation; relating to a report regarding a municipal energy                                                             
     improvements financing program and to an energy report by                                                                  
     the Office of the Governor; and providing for an effective                                                                 
     date."                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Signing do pass: Senators Hoffman, Stedman, Cochairs; Senators                                                                  
Huggins, Thomas, Egan, Ellis. Signing no recommendation: Senator                                                                
Olson.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                

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The following fiscal information was published today:                                                                           
 Fiscal Note No. 7, Department of Commerce, Community and                                                                       
      Economic Development                                                                                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 8, Department of Commerce, Community and                                                                       
      Economic Development                                                                                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 9, zero, Department of Revenue                                                                                 
 Fiscal Note No. 10, zero, Department of Revenue                                                                                
 Fiscal Note No. 11, zero, Department of Administration                                                                         
 Fiscal Note No. 12, Department of Transportation and Public                                                                    
      Facilities                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                                                  
 Fiscal Note No. 3, zero, Department of Environmental                                                                           
      Conservation                                                                                                              
 Fiscal Note No. 6, indeterminate, Department of Health and Social                                                              
      Services                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
The bill is on today's calendar.