Full Text of SB1827 94th General Assembly
SB1827ham001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Executive Committee
Filed: 3/23/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1827
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1827 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Local Government Energy Conservation Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 515/5)
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| Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the | 8 |
| context clearly
requires otherwise:
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| "Energy conservation
measure" means any improvement, | 10 |
| repair, alteration, or betterment of any
building or facility | 11 |
| owned or operated by a unit of local government or any
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| equipment, fixture, or furnishing to be added to or used in any
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| such building or facility
that is designed to reduce
energy | 14 |
| consumption or operating costs, and may include, without | 15 |
| limitation,
one or more of the following:
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| (1) Insulation of the building structure or systems | 17 |
| within the building.
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| (2) Storm windows or doors, caulking or | 19 |
| weatherstripping, multiglazed
windows or doors, heat | 20 |
| absorbing or heat reflective glazed and coated
window or | 21 |
| door systems, additional glazing, reductions in glass | 22 |
| area, or
other window and door system modifications that | 23 |
| reduce energy consumption.
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| (3) Automated or computerized energy control systems.
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| (4) Heating, ventilating, or air conditioning system | 2 |
| modifications or
replacements.
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| (5) Replacement or modification of lighting fixtures | 4 |
| to increase the
energy efficiency of the lighting system | 5 |
| without increasing the overall
illumination of a facility, | 6 |
| unless an increase in illumination is necessary
to conform | 7 |
| to the applicable State or local building code for the | 8 |
| lighting
system after the proposed modifications are made.
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| (6) Energy recovery systems.
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| (7)
Energy conservation measures that provide | 11 |
| long-term operating cost
reductions.
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| "Guaranteed energy savings contract" means a contract for: | 13 |
| (i) the
implementation of an
energy audit, data collection, and | 14 |
| other related analyses preliminary to
the undertaking of energy | 15 |
| conservation measures; (ii) the evaluation and
recommendation | 16 |
| of
energy conservation measures; (iii) the implementation of | 17 |
| one or more
energy conservation measures; and (iv) the | 18 |
| implementation of project
monitoring and data collection to | 19 |
| verify post-installation energy
consumption and energy-related | 20 |
| operating costs. The contract shall provide
that all payments, | 21 |
| except
obligations on termination of the contract before its | 22 |
| expiration, are to be
made over time and that the savings are | 23 |
| guaranteed to the extent necessary
to pay the costs of
the | 24 |
| energy conservation measures.
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| "Qualified provider" means a person
or business whose | 26 |
| employees are experienced and trained in the design,
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| implementation, or installation of
energy conservation | 28 |
| measures. The minimum training required for any person
or | 29 |
| employee under this paragraph shall be the satisfactory | 30 |
| completion of at
least 40 hours of course instruction dealing | 31 |
| with energy conservation
measures. A qualified provider to whom | 32 |
| the contract is
awarded shall give a sufficient bond to the | 33 |
| unit of local government for its
faithful performance.
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| "Request for proposals" means a
negotiated procurement. |
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| The request for proposals shall be announced
through at least | 2 |
| one public notice, at least 10 days before the request
date in | 3 |
| a newspaper published in the territory comprising the unit of | 4 |
| local
government or, if no newspaper is
published in that | 5 |
| territory, in a newspaper of general circulation in the
area of | 6 |
| the unit of local government, from a unit of local government | 7 |
| that will
administer the
program, requesting innovative | 8 |
| solutions and proposals for energy
conservation measures. | 9 |
| Proposals submitted shall be sealed. The request
for proposals | 10 |
| shall include all of the following:
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| (1) The name and address of the unit of local | 12 |
| government.
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| (2) The name, address, title, and phone number of a | 14 |
| contact person.
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| (3) Notice indicating that the unit of local government | 16 |
| is requesting
qualified
providers to propose energy | 17 |
| conservation measures through a guaranteed
energy savings | 18 |
| contract.
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| (4) The date, time, and place where proposals must be | 20 |
| received.
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| (5) The evaluation criteria for assessing the | 22 |
| proposals.
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| (6) Any other stipulations and clarifications the unit | 24 |
| of local government
may require.
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| "Unit of local government" means a county, township, or
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| municipality , or park district .
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| (Source: P.A. 88-173.)
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| Section 10. The Public University Energy Conservation Act | 29 |
| is amended by changing Sections 15 and 20 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 62/15)
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| Sec. 15. Award of guaranteed energy savings contract. | 32 |
| Sealed
proposals must be opened by the public university's |
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| board of trustees or a
designee of that board at a
public | 2 |
| opening at which the contents of the proposals must be | 3 |
| announced.
Each person or entity submitting a sealed proposal | 4 |
| must receive at least 10
days notice of the time and place of | 5 |
| the opening.
The public university
shall select the qualified | 6 |
| provider that best meets the needs of
the district. The public | 7 |
| university shall provide public notice of
the
meeting at which | 8 |
| it proposes to award a guaranteed energy savings contract
and | 9 |
| of the names of the parties to the proposed contract and the | 10 |
| purpose of
the contract. The public notice shall be made at | 11 |
| least 10 days prior to
the meeting. After evaluating the | 12 |
| proposals under Section 10, a public
university
may enter into | 13 |
| a guaranteed energy savings contract with a
qualified provider | 14 |
| if it finds that the amount it would spend on the
energy
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| conservation measures recommended in the proposal would not | 16 |
| exceed the
amount to be saved in either energy or operational | 17 |
| costs, or both, within a
20-year
10 year period from the date | 18 |
| of installation, if the recommendations in
the proposal are | 19 |
| followed.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-486, eff. 8-17-97.)
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| (110 ILCS 62/20)
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| Sec. 20. Guarantee. The guaranteed energy savings contract | 23 |
| shall
include a written guarantee of the qualified provider | 24 |
| that either the
energy or operational cost savings, or both, | 25 |
| will meet or exceed within 20
10
years the costs
of the energy | 26 |
| conservation measures. The qualified provider
shall reimburse | 27 |
| the public university for any shortfall of guaranteed
energy
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| savings projected in the contract. A qualified provider shall | 29 |
| provide a
sufficient bond to the public university for the | 30 |
| installation and the
faithful performance of all the measures | 31 |
| included in the contract. The
guaranteed energy savings | 32 |
| contract may provide for payments over a period
of time, not to | 33 |
| exceed 20
10 years from the date of final installation of the
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| measures.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-486, eff. 8-17-97.)
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| Section 20. The Public Community College Act is amended by | 4 |
| changing Sections 5A-35 and 5A-40 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 805/5A-35)
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| Sec. 5A-35. Award of guaranteed energy savings contract. | 7 |
| Sealed
proposals must be opened by a member or employee of the | 8 |
| community college board
at a
public opening at which the | 9 |
| contents of the proposals must be announced.
Each person or | 10 |
| entity submitting a sealed proposal must receive at least 10
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| days notice of the time and place of the opening.
The community | 12 |
| college
district shall select the qualified provider that best | 13 |
| meets the needs of
the district. The community college district | 14 |
| shall provide public notice of
the
meeting at which it proposes | 15 |
| to award a guaranteed energy savings contract
of the names of | 16 |
| the parties to the proposed contract and of the purpose of
the | 17 |
| contract. The public notice shall be made at least 10 days | 18 |
| prior to
the meeting. After evaluating the proposals under | 19 |
| Section 5A-30, a community
college
district may enter into a | 20 |
| guaranteed energy savings contract with a
qualified provider if | 21 |
| it finds that the amount it would spend on the
energy
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| conservation measures recommended in the proposal would not | 23 |
| exceed the
amount to be saved in either energy or operational | 24 |
| costs, or both, within a
20-year
10 year period from the date | 25 |
| of installation, if the recommendations in
the proposal are | 26 |
| followed.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-173.)
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| (110 ILCS 805/5A-40)
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| Sec. 5A-40. Guarantee. The guaranteed energy savings | 30 |
| contract shall
include a written guarantee of the qualified | 31 |
| provider that either the
energy or operational cost savings, or |
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| both, will meet or exceed within 20
10
years the costs
of the | 2 |
| energy conservation measures. The qualified provider
shall | 3 |
| reimburse the community college district for any shortfall of | 4 |
| guaranteed
energy
savings projected in the contract. A | 5 |
| qualified provider shall provide a
sufficient bond to the | 6 |
| community college district for the installation and the
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| faithful performance of all the measures included in the | 8 |
| contract. The
guaranteed energy savings contract may provide | 9 |
| for payments over a period
of time, not to exceed 20
10 years | 10 |
| from the date of final installation of the
measures.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-173; 88-615, eff. 9-9-94.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 13 |
| becoming law.".
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