56.775 Required high-performance building standards -- Use of energy-efficiency products. To improve energy efficiency throughout state government, the cabinet and universities that manage their own capital construction projects under KRS 164A.580 shall: (1) Beginning July 1, 2009, require that all construction or renovation of public buildings for which fifty percent (50%) or more of the total capital cost is paid by the Commonwealth shall be designed and constructed, or renovated, to meet the high-performance building standards established in KRS 56.777. This subsection applies to all projects that have not entered the design phase prior to January 1, 2009; (2) Require that all building leases entered into by the Commonwealth or any of its agencies on and after July 1, 2018, shall meet the high-performance building standards. From July 15, 2008 and prior to July 1, 2018, a building that meets the high-performance building standards established in this section shall be given a preference in the state leasing process over other buildings that do not meet the high-performance building standards; and (3) Incorporate ENERGY STAR-qualified products in state agency procurements to the extent economically feasible using a life-cycle cost analysis. Effective: February 25, 2010 History: Repealed and reenacted 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 4, effective February 25, 2010. -- Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2008. -- Created 2007 (2d Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 31, effective August 30, 2007. Legislative Research Commission Note (2/25/2010). 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 28, provides that the repeal and reenactment of this section in that Act "shall apply retroactively to July 15, 2008."