House File 2422 - Introduced



                           HOUSE FILE       
                           BY  PAULSEN, STRUYK, KAUFMANN, BAUDLER,
                               DEYOE, RAYHONS, SODERBERG, UPMEYER,
                               TJEPKES, TYMESON, FORRISTALL, WATTS,
                               L. MILLER, GREINER, HOFFMAN, WORTHAN,
                               DE BOEF, DOLECHECK, SANDS, S. OLSON,
                               ROBERTS, GRANZOW, JACOBS, WINDSCHITL,
                               GRASSLEY, LUKAN, RANTS, ALONS, BOAL,
                               D. TAYLOR, VAN FOSSEN, PETTENGILL,
                               VAN ENGELENHOVEN, TOMENGA, QUIRK,
                               T. TAYLOR, DANDEKAR, KELLEY, SHOMSHOR,
                               BUKTA, BAILEY, MURPHY, GIPP, RAECKER,
                               DRAKE, FOEGE, HUSEMAN, R. OLSON,
                               ANDERSON, CHAMBERS, CLUTE, WISE,
                               RASMUSSEN, SCHICKEL, HUSER, and BERRY


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act revising the definition of alternative and renewable
  2    energy applicable to specified energy independence
  3    initiatives.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5078YH 82
  6 rn/sc/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 469.31, subsection 2, Code Supplement
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  "Alternative and renewable energy" means energy sources
  1  4 including but not limited to solar, wind turbine, waste
  1  5 management, resource recovery, recovered energy generation,
  1  6 refuse=derived fuel, hydroelectric, agricultural crops or
  1  7 residues, hydrogen produced using renewable fuel sources, and
  1  8 woodburning, any noncarbon=based form of energy production not
  1  9 otherwise specified in this subsection, or relating to
  1 10 renewable fuel development and distribution.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill revises the definition of alternative and
  1 13 renewable energy applicable to Code chapter 469, relating to
  1 14 energy independence initiatives, by adding to the list of
  1 15 currently specified forms of energy a reference to any
  1 16 noncarbon=based form of energy production not otherwise
  1 17 specified on the list.
  1 18 LSB 5078YH 82
  1 19 rn/sc/5.1