BILL NUMBER: SB 1757	CHAPTERED  09/30/04

	CHAPTER  926
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 18, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 26, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 26, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 12, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Denham and Battin
   (Coauthors:  Senators Aanestad, Ackerman, Johnson, and Knight)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bates, Cogdill, Daucher, Dutton,
Garcia, Harman, Shirley Horton, La Malfa, Maze, and Spitzer)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2004

   An act to amend Section 13332.09 of the Government Code, relating
to state contracts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1757, Denham.  State procurement:  vehicles.
   Existing law provides that no purchase order or other form of
documentation for acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles shall
be issued against any appropriation until the Department of General
Services has investigated and established the necessity for the
acquisition or replacement.
   This bill would require that all contracts for acquisition of
motor vehicles or general use mobile equipment for an executive
branch officer or agency or the California State University be made
by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services,
and would permit the department to collect a fee to offset the cost
of the services provided.  The bill would request and encourage the
University of California to have the department perform these tasks
with respect to the acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles by
the University of California.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 13332.09 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   13332.09.  (a) No purchase order or other form of documentation
for acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles shall be issued
against any appropriation until the Department of General Services
has investigated and established the necessity therefor.
   (b) A state agency may not acquire surplus mobile equipment from
any source for program support until the Department of General
Services has investigated and established the necessity therefor.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all contracts for
the acquisition of motor vehicles or general use mobile equipment for
a state agency shall be made by or under the supervision of the
Department of General Services.  Pursuant to Section 10298 the
Department of General Services may collect a fee to offset the cost
of the services provided.
   (d) All passenger-type motor vehicles purchased for state officers
and employees, except constitutional officers, shall be
American-made vehicles of the light class, as defined by the State
Board of Control, unless excepted by the Director of General Services
on the basis of unusual requirements, including, but not limited to,
use by the California Highway Patrol, that would justify the need
for a motor vehicle of a heavier class.
   (e) No general use mobile equipment having an original purchase
price of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more shall be
rented or leased from a nonstate source and payment therefor made
from any appropriation for the use of the Department of
Transportation, without the prior approval of the Department of
General Services after a determination that comparable state-owned
equipment is not available, unless obtaining approval would endanger
life or property, in which case the transaction and the justification
for not having sought prior approval shall be reported immediately
thereafter to the Department of General Services.
   (f) As used in this section:
   (1) "General use mobile equipment" means equipment that is listed
in the Mobile Equipment Inventory of the State Equipment Council and
which is capable of being used by more than one state agency, and
shall not be deemed to refer to equipment having a practical use
limited to the controlling state agency only.  Section 575 of the
Vehicle Code shall have no application to this section.
   (2) "State agency" means a state agency, as defined pursuant to
Section 11000, and each campus of the California State University.
The University of California is requested and encouraged to have the
Department of General Services perform the tasks identified in this
section with respect to the acquisition or replacement of motor
vehicles by the University of California.