1.1.................... moves to amend H.F. No. 689 as follows:
1.2Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

1.3    "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 216B.241, subdivision 9, is amended to
1.4read:
1.5    Subd. 9. Building performance standards; Sustainable Building 2030. (a) The
1.6purpose of this subdivision is to establish cost-effective energy-efficiency performance
1.7standards for new and substantially reconstructed commercial, industrial, and institutional
1.8buildings that can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions by lowering energy use in
1.9new and substantially reconstructed buildings. For the purposes of this subdivision, the
1.10establishment of these standards may be referred to as Sustainable Building 2030.
1.11    (b) The commissioner shall contract with the Center for Sustainable Building
1.12Research at the University of Minnesota to coordinate development and implementation
1.13of energy-efficiency performance standards, strategic planning, research, data analysis,
1.14technology transfer, training, and other activities related to the purpose of Sustainable
1.15Building 2030. The commissioner and the Center for Sustainable Building Research
1.16shall, in consultation with utilities, builders, developers, building operators, and experts
1.17in building design and technology, develop a Sustainable Building 2030 implementation
1.18plan that must address, at a minimum, the following issues:
1.19    (1) training architects to incorporate the performance standards in building design;
1.20    (2) incorporating the performance standards in utility conservation improvement
1.21programs; and
1.22    (3) developing procedures for ongoing monitoring of energy use in buildings that
1.23have adopted the performance standards.
1.24The plan must be submitted to the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and
1.25house of representatives committees with primary jurisdiction over energy policy by
1.26July 1, 2009.
2.1    (c) Sustainable Building 2030 energy-efficiency performance standards must be firm,
2.2quantitative measures of total building energy use and associated carbon dioxide emissions
2.3per square foot for different building types and uses, that allow for accurate determinations
2.4of a building's conformance with a performance standard. The energy-efficiency
2.5performance standards must be updated every three or five years to incorporate all
2.6cost-effective measures. The performance standards must reflect the reductions in carbon
2.7dioxide emissions per square foot resulting from actions taken by utilities to comply
2.8with the renewable energy standards in section 216B.1691. The performance standards
2.9should be designed to achieve reductions equivalent to the following reduction schedule,
2.10measured against energy consumption by an average building in each applicable building
2.11sector in 2003: (1) 60 percent in 2010; (2) 70 percent in 2015; (3) 80 percent in 2020;
2.12and (4) 90 percent in 2025. A performance standard must not be established or increased
2.13absent a conclusive engineering analysis that it is cost-effective based upon established
2.14practices used in evaluating utility conservation improvement programs.
2.15    (d) The annual amount of the contract with the Center for Sustainable Building
2.16Research is up to $500,000. The Center for Sustainable Building Research shall expend
2.17no more than $150,000 of this amount each year on administration, coordination, and
2.18oversight activities related to Sustainable Building 2030. The balance of contract funds
2.19must be spent for subcontracts with not-for-profit energy organizations, architecture and
2.20engineering firms, and other qualified entities to undertake technical projects and activities
2.21in support of Sustainable Building 2030. The primary work to be accomplished each
2.22year by qualified technical experts under subcontracts is the development and thorough
2.23justification of recommendations for specific energy-efficiency performance standards.
2.24Additional work may include:
2.25    (1) research, development, and demonstration of new energy-efficiency technologies
2.26and techniques suitable for commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings;
2.27    (2) analysis and evaluation of practices in building design, construction,
2.28commissioning and operations, and analysis and evaluation of energy use in the
2.29commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors;
2.30    (3) analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Sustainable
2.31Building 2030 performance standards, conservation improvement programs, and building
2.32energy codes;
2.33    (4) development and delivery of training programs for architects, engineers,
2.34commissioning agents, technicians, contractors, equipment suppliers, developers, and
2.35others in the building industries; and
2.36    (5) analyze and evaluate the effect of building operations on energy use.
3.1    (e) The commissioner shall require utilities to develop and implement conservation
3.2improvement programs that are expressly designed to achieve energy efficiency goals
3.3consistent with the Sustainable Building 2030 performance standards. These programs
3.4must include offerings of design assistance and modeling, financial incentives, and the
3.5verification of the proper installation of energy-efficient design components in new and
3.6substantially reconstructed buildings. A utility's design assistance program must consider
3.7the strategic planting of trees and shrubs around buildings as an energy conservation
3.8strategy for the designed project. A utility making an expenditure under its conservation
3.9improvement program that results in a building meeting the Sustainable Building 2030
3.10performance standards may claim the energy savings toward its energy-savings goal
3.11established in subdivision 1c.
3.12    (f) The commissioner shall report to the legislature every three years, beginning
3.13January 15, 2010, on the cost-effectiveness and progress of implementing the Sustainable
3.14Building 2030 performance standards and shall make recommendations on the need to
3.15continue the program as described in this section.
3.16EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment."
3.17Amend the title accordingly