HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1538        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3101

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to energy planning..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. The M.G.L. are amended by the following language.  Not with standing any general law to the contrary the Secretary of Energy and the Environment shall develop a plan that anticipates the cost of fossil fuels increasing exponentially over the next ten years.  The secretary shall create a pragmatic plan that will retrofit existing residential buildings in the Commonwealth to meet energy efficiency requirements that will lower overall energy usage per unit by at least fifty percent over a ten year period.  Said plan shall be completed within one year of the passage of this bill.