House Amendment 1624
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 544, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
1 3 #1. Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
1 4 following:
1 5 <Section 1. Section 8A.362, subsection 5,
1 6 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read
1 7 as follows:
1 8 Of all All new passenger vehicles and light pickup
1 9 trucks purchased by the director, a minimum of ten
1 10 percent of all such vehicles and trucks purchased
1 11 shall be equipped with engines which utilize
1 12 alternative methods of propulsion including but not
1 13 limited to any of the following:>
1 14 #2. Page 1, by inserting after line 32 the
1 15 following:
1 16 <Sec. . Section 266.39C, subsection 3, Code
1 17 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 18 3. Iowa state university of science and technology
1 19 shall employ a director for the center, who shall be
1 20 appointed by the president of Iowa state university of
1 21 science and technology. The director of the center
1 22 shall employ necessary research and support staff.
1 23 The director and staff shall be employees of Iowa
1 24 state university of science and technology. No more
1 25 than seven hundred thousand dollars of the funds made
1 26 available by appropriation from state revenues in any
1 27 one year shall be expended by the center for the
1 28 salaries and benefits of the employees of the center,
1 29 including the salary and benefits of the director.
1 30 The limit on expenditures for salaries and benefits
1 31 shall be adjusted annually by a percentage equal to
1 32 the average percentage salary adjustment approved
1 33 annually by the state board of regents for
1 34 professional and scientific employees at Iowa state
1 35 university of science and technology. The remainder
1 36 of the funds appropriated from state funds Funds
1 37 appropriated to the center shall be used to sponsor
1 38 research grants and projects submitted on a
1 39 competitive basis by Iowa colleges and universities
1 40 and private nonprofit agencies and foundations, and
1 41 for the salaries and benefits of the employees of the
1 42 center. The center may also solicit additional grants
1 43 and funding from public and private nonprofit agencies
1 44 and foundations.>
1 45 #3. Page 2, by striking lines 9 through 17 and
1 46 inserting the following:
1 47 <NEW SUBSECTION. 4A. "Renewable energy" means
1 48 energy sources including but not limited to solar,
1 49 wind turbine, waste management, resource recovery,
1 50 recovered energy generation, refuse=derived fuel,
2 1 hydroelectric, agricultural crops or residues, and
2 2 woodburning, or relating to renewable fuel development
2 3 and distribution.
2 4 NEW SUBSECTION. 4B. "Renewable fuel" means motor
2 5 vehicle fuel that meets any of the following
2 6 conditions:
2 7 a. Is produced from grain, starch, oilseed,
2 8 vegetable, animal, or fish materials including fats,
2 9 greases, and oils, sugarcane, sugar beets, sugar
2 10 components, tobacco, potatoes, or other biomass, or is
2 11 natural gas produced from a biogas source including a
2 12 landfill, sewage waste treatment plant, feedlot, or
2 13 other place where decaying organic material is found.
2 14 b. Is used to replace or reduce the quantity of
2 15 fossil fuel present in a fuel mixture used to operate
2 16 a motor vehicle.
2 17 "Renewable fuel" includes cellulosic biomass
2 18 renewable fuel, waste=derived renewable fuel, and
2 19 biodiesel fuel and any blending components derived
2 20 from renewable fuel, provided that only the renewable
2 21 fuel portion of any such blending component shall be
2 22 considered part of the applicable volume under the
2 23 renewable fuel program.>
2 24 #4. By striking page 2, line 23, through page 5,
2 25 line 15.
2 26 #5. By striking page 10, line 23, through page 13,
2 27 line 1.
2 28 #6. Page 18, by inserting after line 4 the
2 29 following:
2 30 <Sec. . Section 476.46, subsection 2, paragraph
2 31 d, subparagraph (2), Code 2007, is amended to read as
2 32 follows:
2 33 (2) A facility shall be eligible for no more than
2 34 two hundred fifty thousand one million dollars in
2 35 loans outstanding at any time under this program.>
2 36 #7. By striking page 18, line 5, through page 19,
2 37 line 1.
2 38 #8. Page 19, by inserting after line 3 the
2 39 following:
2 40 <Sec. . ENERGY EFFICIENCY STUDIES == IOWA
2 41 UTILITIES BOARD.
2 42 1. ENERGY EFFICIENCY PLANS. The Iowa utilities
2 43 board, in cooperation with gas and electric utilities,
2 44 shall conduct a study of the energy efficiency plans
2 45 and programs offered by all gas and electric utilities
2 46 pursuant to section 476.6 to determine the status and
2 47 effectiveness of energy efficiency programs in the
2 48 state, using the most accurate and up=to=date
2 49 information available to the board during the time
2 50 period prescribed for the study. The board shall
3 1 report the results of the study, with recommendations
3 2 to use best practices to increase energy efficiency
3 3 and reduce energy consumption, to the members of the
3 4 general assembly by January 1, 2008.>
3 5 #9. By renumbering, relettering, or redesignating
3 6 and correcting internal references as necessary.
3 7
3 8
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3 10 COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE
3 11 PETERSEN of Polk, CHAIRPERSON
3 12 SF 544.706 82
3 13 rn/gg/8320
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