1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Smart Building Acceleration Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the building sector uses more than 40 percent of the energy of the United States; (2) emerging building energy monitoring and control technologies are enabling a transition of the building sector to smart buildings that have dramatically reduced energy use and improved quality of service to occupants; (3) an analysis of select private-sector smart buildings by the Department of Energy would document the costs and benefits of the emerging technologies, promote the adoption of the technologies, and accelerate the transition to the technologies; (4) with over 400,000 buildings, the Federal Government is the largest building owner in the United States; and (5) the Federal Government can also accelerate the transition to smart building technologies by demonstrating and evaluating emerging smart building technologies using existing programs and funding to showcase selected Federal smart buildings. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Department The term Department means the Department of Energy. (2) Program The term program means the Federal Smart Building Program established under section 4(a). (3) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy. (4) Smart building The term smart building means a building, or collection of buildings, with an energy system that— (A) is flexible and automated; (B) has extensive operational monitoring and communication connectivity, allowing remote monitoring and analysis of all building functions; (C) takes a systems-based approach in integrating the overall building operations for control of energy generation, consumption, and storage; (D) communicates with utilities and other third-party commercial entities, if appropriate; (E) protects the health and safety of occupants and workers