Bill > S1192

This bill appropriates funds for the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources for fiscal year 2024. The key provisions include: 1. Appropriating over $8.2 million from various funds, including the Federal Grant Fund, Renewable Energy Resources Fund, and Petroleum Price Violation Fund, to be used for personnel costs, operating expenditures, capital outlay, and trustee and benefit payments. 2. Authorizing the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources to have no more than 11 full-time equivalent positions during the fiscal year. 3. Reappropriating up to $15 million from the Miscellaneous Revenue Fund for the Energy Resiliency Grant Program. 4. Restricting the use of federal grant funds for the Resilient Grid Grants program from being used to promote, advertise, enforce, or adopt the International Energy Conservation Code beyond the 2018 energy conservation codes already in effect. 5. Requiring the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources to provide a written report to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee by December 1, 2023, detailing the distribution and use of the Energy Resiliency Grant Program funds. 6. Subjecting all funds provided in the bill to accountability reports and management reviews in accordance with Idaho law. The bill also includes an emergency clause, making it effective on July 1, 2023.

Budget and Finance, Justice

Finance Committee (S)

https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/S1192/