SB194 Alabama 2010 Session

This bill would establish the Alabama Public Interest Energy Research and Development Grants Program to provide funding for energy related public interest research and development projects that advance science or technology for Alabama’s unique portfolio of energy resources, particularly the significant fossil fuel and bioenergy resources of the state

This bill would create a new executive agency to be known as the Commission on Public Interest Energy Research and Development Grants which will have sole discretion to distribute appropriations by the Legislature and other funds allocated for public interest energy research and development grants. The Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Energy Policy shall be an advisory committee to the commission

The bill would establish the Public Interest Energy Research and Development Grants Fund within the State Treasury to receive appropriations from the Legislature and other gifts, grants, federal funds, and other funds. The bill would also make an appropriation from the State General Fund to the fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and also for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011

To establish the Alabama Public Interest Energy Research and Development Grants Program to provide funding for energy related public interest energy research and development; to create a new executive agency to be known as the Commission on Public Interest Energy Research and Development Grants which will have sole discretion to distribute appropriations by the Legislature and other funds allocated for public interest energy research and development grants; to establish the Public Interest Energy Research and Development Grants Fund within the State Treasury; and to make a conditional appropriation from the State General Fund to the fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and also for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011.