Public Act 096-0896
 
SB3429 Enrolled LRB096 18630 RCE 34013 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Capital Development Board Act is amended by
adding Section 18 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 3105/18 new)
    Sec. 18. Study; building energy labels.
    (a) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly, the Board, in consultation with
the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, shall
initiate a study of building energy performance measures for
the purposes of identifying a simple and easily understood
label for a building or facility that indicates its energy use.
    (b) The Board shall identify no less than 10 buildings to
serve as case studies for measuring, reporting, and comparing
the energy consumption using widely recognized and accepted
indicators such as British Thermal Units per square foot.
Consideration shall be given for a variety of representative
building types in different geographic regions of the State to
provide additional information and data. The Board shall use
existing reports and data from the Illinois Energy Efficiency
Committee created by Executive Order 2009-07, the Commercial
Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, the Residential Energy
Consumption Survey, and other available sources.
    (c) The Board shall report its findings and recommendations
to the General Assembly by July 1, 2012.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 05/24/2010