3.0.0 4060 2023-01-11T13:46:09Z 2023-01-11T13:46:09Z Senate S 2020-06-24 116 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-06-24T19:47:00Z Moving Forward Act 116 2 HR 2020-07-20 Received in the Senate. Related bill CRS Open Back Better Act of 2020 116 7303 HR 2020-06-24 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2020-06-24 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2020-06-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN N Energy Air quality Alternative and renewable resources Appropriations Building construction Buy American requirements Cardiovascular and respiratory health Child care and development Community life and organization Congressional oversight Department of Energy Disaster relief and insurance Educational facilities and institutions Electric power generation and transmission Elementary and secondary education Emergency medical services and trauma care Energy efficiency and conservation Environmental health Environmental regulatory procedures Executive agency funding and structure Government buildings, facilities, and property Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health facilities and institutions Higher education Infectious and parasitic diseases Labor standards Libraries and archives Manufacturing Metals Natural disasters Poverty and welfare assistance Public contracts and procurement State and local government operations Wages and earnings Water quality Energy 00 2020-06-24 Introduced in Senate 2021-03-26T17:43:10Z Open Back Better Act of 2020

This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide grants to federal and state agencies and tribal organizations to implement building projects that increase resiliency, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and grid integration. It also provides grants for projects that may have combined heat and power and energy storage as project components.

States must use at least 40% of grant funds to implement projects in environmental justice communities or low-income communities that have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.

No funds may be used for a project unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States, with specified exceptions.

The bill also directs DOE to hire a specified number of employees to carry out the grant program, including at least 300 full-time employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

]]> Open Back Better Act of 2020 Display Title Open Back Better Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Open Back Better Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide additional funds for Federal and State facility energy resiliency programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4060is/xml/BILLS-116s4060is.xml 2020-06-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.