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AN ACT concerning Electric Companies, Gas Companies, and the Department of Housing and Community Development - Energy Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plans and Green and Healthy Task Force FOR the purpose of requiring each electric company and gas company and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a certain plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain programs and services; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for its customers or certain individuals, beginning on a certain date and with a certain frequency, certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction programs and services to encourage and promote the efficient use and conservation of energy in support of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; requiring the Public Service Commission to encourage and promote the efficient use and conservation of energy in support of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets in a certain manner, including requiring certain municipal electric or gas utilities and electric cooperatives to include certain programs or services as part of their service to their customers as directed by the Commission; requiring certain electric companies and gas companies and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and submit to the Commission, on or before a certain date and with a certain frequency, a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets requiring the Commission to establish and determine certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; requiring certain contractors used for Underlining indicates amendments to bill. Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by amendment. HOUSE BILL 1035 certain programs under this Act to meet certain job requirements; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan to coordinate and leverage funding sources to support certain energy efficiency and other home upgrades; requiring the Department of the Environment to prepare and submit to the Commission a certain analysis; requiring each electric company and each gas company to promote certain rebates, tax credits, and incentives; establishing the Green and Healthy Task Force to analyze and advance the coordination of resources to address the housing needs of low-income communities; requiring the certification agency designated by the Board of Public Works and the Governor’s Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Office of the Attorney General, and the General Assembly to study certain energy efficiency and conservation services and submit its findings on or before a certain date; and generally relating to the efficient use and conservation of energy in support of greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets. BY repealing Article - Public Utilities Section 7-211 Annotated Code of Maryland (2020 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Public Utilities The new part designation “Part I. In General” to immediately precede Section 7-201; and Section 7-220 through 7-226 7-228 to be under the new part “Part II. Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plans” Efficiency and Conservation Plans”; and 7-315 Annotated Code of Maryland (2020 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Public Utilities Section 7-510.3(j)(2) Annotated Code of Maryland (2020 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - State Government Section 9-20B-05(f)(4) Annotated Code of Maryland (2021 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement)

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C.T. Wilson (D)*, 

Rereferred to Education, Energy, and the Environment (on 04/07/2023)

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