The law that interested me was the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015.

This law was

created to promote energy and water efficiency for any installing, implementing, or operating
that would save some energy and water and cost less compared to the current cost of
installing, implementing, or operating. It asks for the Administrator of General Services to use
and publish model commercial leasing provisions to encourage owners and tenants to use the
cost effective energy and water efficiency measures in commercial buildings, to develop
policies and practices to implement the cost effective energy and water efficiency measures for
realty services provided by the Administrator to federal agencies. The Administrator, along with
the Secretary of Energy, would also make available model commercial leasing provisions to
State, county and municipal governments in managing owned and leased building space, with
the goal of encouraging investment in all cost effective energy and water efficiency measures.
This law amended the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to improve energy
efficiency in commercial buildings and to really encourage the public to partake in the new cost
effective energy and water efficiency measures. Next, the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency developed a voluntary program within the Energy Star program to promote
energy efficiency in separate spaces. The Secretary of Energy will collect data on buildings that
are known to use significant amounts of energy, conduct a survey, and make the data available
for the public to see. For cost effective water efficiency specifically, it is an electric resistance
water heater with an activation lock provided by the manufacturer that will provide no greater
than 50% first hour delivery of hot water certified by the manufacturer. It will be unlawful for
anyone to use the grid-enabled water heater as an electric thermal storage or demand response
program and to remove or sell illegally. The Department of Energy have to study which practice
policy meets the best results and report on the impact of the state and local performance
efficiency policies in commercial and multifamily buildings and programs and systems in which
utilities provide information regarding an entire buildings energy consumption and usage
information to the owners. They have to have a database on energy-related information on
commercial and multifamily buildings and to report the progress within two years.
This law was introduced by Robert Rob Portman, a Republican and Junior Senator from Ohio.
It was reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on February 24, 2015. The
Committee consisted of 31 Republicans and 23 Democrats. It was passed by the Senate on
March 27, 2015, and there is no record of vote because the vote was done vocally. It was
passed by the House on April 21, 2015, and there is also no record of vote because the vote
was also done vocally. The President signed this law on April 30, 2015.