Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

LB265                                                                     LB265
2021                                                                       2021
                     LEGISLATIVE BILL 265
                    Approved by the Governor April 23, 2021
Introduced by Blood, 3.
A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act; to amend section 13-3211, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2020; to provide an annual report exception; to repeal the original section; and to declare an emergency.
Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
     Section 1. Section 13-3211, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2020,
is amended to read:
     13-3211 (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, any Any municipality that creates a clean energy assessment district under the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act shall, on or before January 31 of each year,
electronically submit a report to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Legislature on the following:
     (a) The number of clean energy assessment districts in the municipality and their location;
     (b) The total dollar amount of energy projects undertaken pursuant to the act;
     (c) The total dollar amount of outstanding bonds issued under the act;
     (d) The total dollar amount of annual assessments collected as of the end of the most recently completed calendar year and the total amount of annual assessments yet to be collected pursuant to assessment contracts signed under the act; and
     (e) A description of the types of energy projects undertaken pursuant to
the act.
     (2) If a clean energy assessment district is administered jointly by two or more municipalities, a single report submission by the cooperating municipalities is sufficient to satisfy the requirements of subsection (1) of this section.
     (3) This section shall not apply to any municipality that has created a clean energy assessment district but does not have any active energy projects pursuant to the act.
     Sec. 2. Original section 13-3211, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement,
2020, is repealed.
     Sec. 3. Since an emergency exists, this act takes effect when passed and approved according to law.
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Statutes affected: 
Introduced: 13-3211
Final Reading: 13-3211
Slip Law: 13-3211