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SB 220                                                                                                                        
The Resources 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(RES) "An Act declaring                                                                         
      a state energy policy; relating to energy efficiency, energy                                                              
      conservation, and alternative energy; relating to an                                                                      
      emerging energy technology fund and a renewable energy                                                                    
      refundable tax credit; relating to a fuel purchasing                                                                      
      cooperative, to the Alaska heating assistance program, to                                                                 
      energy codes and efficiency standards, to a state agency                                                                  
      energy use reduction program and to state energy use data,                                                                
      to the Southeast energy fund, to the alternative energy                                                                   
      revolving loan 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, to the definition of 'alternative                                                                
      energy system,' and to the renewable energy grant fund;                                                                   
      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; and relating to an energy report by                                                                  
      the Office of the Governor."                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Signing do pass: Senators McGuire, Wielechowski, Cochairs; Senators                                                             
Huggins, Stevens, French.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                

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The following fiscal information was published today:                                                                           
      Fiscal Note No. 1, indeterminate, Department of Revenue                                                                   
                Fiscal Note No. 2, Department of Commerce, Community and                                                       
       Economic Development                                                                                                     
      Fiscal Note No. 3, zero, Department of Environmental                                                                      
       Conservation                                                                                                             
 Fiscal Note No. 4, Department of Transportation and Public                                                                     
  Facilities                                                                                                                    
 Fiscal Note No. 5, Department of Commerce, Community and                                                                       
  Economic Development                                                                                                          
 Fiscal Note No. 6, indeterminate, Department of Health and Social                                                              
  Services                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
The bill was referred to the Finance Committee.