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Creating a nonprofit organization energy efficiency grant program, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 1, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires the Iowa energy center to create a nonprofit organization energy efficiency grant program to award grants for the purpose of financing energy efficiency improvements to buildings owned and operated by nonprofit organizations. The bill defines “energy efficiency improvement” to mean an installed measure that is intended to reduce energy consumption or costs, or both, or to allow the use of alternative and renewable energy, including repairing, replacing, or installing a roof or lighting system, window, door, or heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system, a renewable energy generation or heating system, or a measure taken to make the building more energy efficient.
Read the full explanation
The bill defines “nonprofit organization” to mean an organization exempt from federal income taxation. The bill requires the Iowa energy center to establish appropriate performance-based standards and criteria to approve grants, including the estimated energy savings achieved, the estimated cost-effectiveness of the improvement, the plan for evaluating, measuring, and verifying energy savings, the financial need of the nonprofit organization, and the availability of matching funds. The bill restricts a grant awarded under the program to the lesser of $100,000 or percent of the proposed energy efficiency improvements. The bill appropriates $1 million to the Iowa energy center for FY 2022-2023 for the purpose of implementing the nonprofit organization energy efficiency grant program. The moneys appropriated in the bill are not subject to reversion to the general fund of the state at the end of the fiscal year.120. Current law repeals the Iowa energy center on July 1, 2022. The bill extends specified funding sources for the Iowa energy center and the center for global and regional environmental research and makes conforming amendments.53 million of specified remittances from gas and electric utilities are appropriated to the general fund of the state with the remaining remittances transferred to the Iowa energy center. Currently, this provision applies for the fiscal year 2021-2022.