SB8

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__**Senate Bill Number**__ SB-8

__**Sponsors**__ T. Riedy, OH, R., M. Iammarino, CA, R., M.Horan, WI, R.

__**Issue Category and Bill Title**__ Environment - G.R.E.E.N - Generating Revolutionary Energy Efficient Neighborhoods

__**Purpose**__ The purpose of this bill is to help develope green neighborhoods and provide a tax break for people that build in energy efficient ways. Also, as secondary goals, this bill also can help improve the economy and help conserve the environment.

__**Eligibility**__ Our bill will apply to the citizens of the United States who build neighborhoods and homes that are energy efficient including the owners and contractors.

GREEN provides an opportunity for people who build energy efficient homes a tax break and the following.
 * __Terms and Benefits__**


 * 1) provide a .5% annual tax break to homeowners who build GREEN
 * 2) make construction companies use more earth-friendly materials and methods of building
 * 3) help restart the current housing economy
 * 4) motivate the American people to be environmentally concious
 * 5) help create jobs of people in the construction, enviroment and government to help enforce the building protocols. These protocalls determine if the house is worthy of a tax break and the consturction companies meets the new requirements.
 * 6) this bill, if accepted, will continue until the year 2015 unless decided otherwise by Congress

__**Fiscal Impacts**__
 * 1) Computers: to help manage information and logs about "GREEN" building in each state. Estimate the price of an average computer is $800 x 50 states = $40,000
 * 2) Spokesperson for TV ads $2,000 a day for 2 days plus agency fee = $5,000
 * 3) The average price of an energyefficent home is $350,000 with a tax break of .5%, then estimating there are 100 houses in each neighborhood and about 100 "GREEN" neighborhoods in 2010 = $17,500,000 tax break anually, nationwide
 * 4) Average cost of a T.V. ad is $250,000 for 30 seconds
 * 5) The average salary for a government director of a program is around $116,274

Total Annual Cost: $ 17,911,274 Total Cost for 5 years: $ 88,381,370

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