BILL NUMBER: AB 2622	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member John A. Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 25722.7 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to state vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2622, as introduced, John A. Pérez. State vehicle fleet
purchases: minimum fuel economy standard.
   Existing law requires the Department of General Services, in
consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, to establish a minimum fuel economy standard
for the purchase of passenger vehicles and light duty trucks for the
state fleet that are powered solely by internal combustion engines
utilizing fossil fuels. Existing law requires all new state fleet
purchases of those vehicle types to meet that standard, with certain
exemptions.
   This bill would require the Department of General Services to
include within the fuel economy standard passenger vehicles and light
duty trucks that are powered by more than one source, such as hybrid
vehicles, and would require new state vehicle fleet purchases of
those vehicles to conform to that standard. These requirements would
not apply to plug-in electric vehicles.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 25722.7 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   25722.7.  (a) In order to further achieve the policy objectives
set forth in Sections 25000.5, 25722, and 25722.5,  on or
before June 1, 2007,  the Department of General Services
 ,  in consultation with the  State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission   commission,
 shall establish a minimum fuel economy standard that is above
the standard, as it  exists   existed  on
January 1, 2007, established pursuant to Section 3620.1 of the State
Administrative Manual, for the purchase of passenger vehicles and
light duty trucks for the state fleet that are powered solely by
internal combustion engines utilizing fossil fuels  or that are
powered by more than one source, such as hybrid vehicles. The minimum
fuel economy standard required by this subdivision does not apply to
plug-in electric vehicles  .
   (b)  On or after January 1, 2008, all   All
 new state fleet purchases  by the Department of General
  Services and any other state entities  of passenger
vehicles and light duty trucks  that are  powered solely by
internal combustion engines utilizing fossil fuels,  by the
Department of General Services and any other state entities 
 or that are powered by more than one source, such as hybrid
vehicles,  shall meet the fuel economy standard established
under subdivision (a).  This subdivision does not apply to
plug-in electric vehicles. 
   (c) Authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165 of
the Vehicle Code, and vehicles identified in paragraph (3) of
subdivision (a) of Section 25722.5  ,  are exempt from this
section.
   (d) Vehicles  that are  purchased  , that are
  and  modified for the following purposes 
,  are exempt from this  section.  
section: 
   (1) To provide services by a state entity to an individual with a
disability or a developmental disability, as defined under the
statutes or regulations governing that state entity.
   (2) As a reasonable accommodation for the known physical or mental
disability, as defined in Section 12926 of the Government Code, of
an employee.
   (e) For purposes of this section, "state entities" includes all
state departments, boards, commissions, programs, and other
organizational units of the executive, legislative, and judicial
branches of state government, the California Community Colleges, the
California State University, and the University of California.
   (f) No provision of this section shall apply to the University of
California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision
applicable.