High-Performance Green Buildings Act
Latest action · Jul 8, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7830-7833)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 8, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
High-Performance Green Buildings Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to create, within the General Services Administration (GSA), and appoint an individual to, a position to establish and oversee the Office of High-Performance Green Buildings within GSA. Directs the Office to establish an interagency steering committee.
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants to State and local educational agencies for use in: (1) providing technical assistance for and assisting implementation of the EPA's Tools for Schools Program; and (2) the development of State-level school environmental quality plans.
Requires the EPA Administrator to develop school site acquisition guidelines that: (1) take into account the special vulnerability of children to chemical exposure where the potential for site contamination is assessed; (2) include an analysis of means for maximizing transportation choices.
Requires the EPA Administrator, in partnership with the Secretary of Education, to carry out an education research program in support of the education-related provisions of this Act.
Directs the Comptroller General to review the budget process and develop and submit to Congress an implementation plan for life-cycle costing that identifies and incorporates cost savings that accrue from high-performance green buildings.
Requires the Office to establish guidelines for, and carry out, specified demonstration projects at Federal buildings and universities to contribute to the research goals of the Office.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 8, 2004.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
| D-DE | Thomas R. Carper | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Jul 8, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 8, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Jul 8, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7830-7833)
- Jul 8, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7829-7830)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Academic performance
- Air conditioning
- Air pollution control
- Auditing
- Bikeways
- Building construction
- Building materials
- Chemicals
- Child safety
- Commerce
- Commuting
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conservation of natural resources
- Cost accounting
- Cost effectiveness
- Data banks
- Decision making
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Educational research
- Electronic government information
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal budgets
- Federal employees
- Federal office buildings
- Federal officials
- Fungi
- General Services Administration
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publicity
- Green products
- Health
- Health information systems
- Heating
- Higher education
- Indoor air pollution
- Infrastructure
- Internet
- Labor and Employment
- Labor productivity
- Landscape architecture
- Lead
- Learning
- Lighting
- Maintenance and repair
- Mass rapid transit
- Noise
- Occupational health and safety
- Pest control
- Planning-programming-budgeting
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Radon
- Recycling of waste products
- Research and development
- School buildings
- School districts
- School health programs
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Special education
- Standards
- Student transportation
- Technology assessment
- Transportation and Public Works
- Walking
- Waste reduction
- Water conservation
- Water pollution control
- Water Resources Development
- Web sites
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