Amended in Senate April 21, 2014

Senate Bill No. 1265

Introduced by Senator Hueso

February 21, 2014

begin delete An act to add Section 14842.7 to the Government Code, relating to public contracts. end delete begin insert An act to amend Section 25722.7 of the Public Resources Code, relating to state vehicles. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1265, as amended, Hueso. begin delete Public contracts: small business participation: pilot program. end delete begin insert State vehicle fleet purchases: minimum fuel economy standard. end insert

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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.

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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.

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The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act permits a state agency to award a contract for goods, services, or information technology with a value of between $5,000 and $250,000 to a certified small business, including a microbusiness, or to a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements, as long as the state agency obtains price quotations from two or more certified small businesses or from two or more disabled veteran business ecterprises.

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This bill would require the Department of General Services to develop a pilot program to increase supplier competition for contracts under the act for the procurement of goods. The bill would require the department, in developing the pilot program, to ensure that a streamlined procurement process for contracts with state-certified small business or disabled veterans business enterprises continues, while increasing the opportunities for certified small businesses to compete for those contracting opportunities.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 25722.7 of the end insert begin insert Public Resources Code end insert begin insert is
amended to read: end insert

25722.7.  

(a) In order to further achieve the policy objectives
set forth in Sections 25000.5, 25722, and 25722.5, begin delete on or before
June 1, 2007, end delete the Department of General begin delete Services end delete begin insert Services, end insert in
consultation with the begin delete State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission end delete begin insert commission, end insert shall establish a minimum
fuel economy standard that is above the standard, as it begin delete exists end delete begin insert existed end insert
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 begin delete fuels. end delete begin insert 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. end insert

(b)  begin delete On or after January 1, 2008, all end delete begin insert All end insert new state fleet purchases
begin insert by the Department of General Services and any other state entities end insert
of passenger vehicles and light duty trucks begin insert that are end insert powered solely
by internal combustion engines utilizing fossil fuels, begin insert or that are
powered end insert by begin delete the Department of General Services and any other
state entities end delete begin insert more than one source, such as hybrid vehicles, end insert shall
meet the fuel economy standard established under subdivision (a).
begin insert This subdivision does not apply to plug-in electric vehicles. end insert

(c) Authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165
of the Vehicle Code, and vehicles identified in paragraph (3) of
subdivision (a) of Section begin delete 25722.5 end delete begin insert 25722.5, end insert are exempt from this
section.

(d) Vehicles begin delete purchased, end delete that are begin insert purchased and end insert modified for
the following begin delete purposes, end delete begin insert purposes end insert are exempt from this begin delete section. end delete
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(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.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 14842.7 is added to the Government
Code, to read:

14842.7.  

The department shall develop a pilot program to
increase supplier competition for contracts under this chapter for
the procurement of goods. The department, in developing the pilot
program, shall ensure that the streamlined procurement process
for contracts with state-certified small business or disabled veterans
business enterprises, known as the SB/DVBE Option, continues,
while increasing the opportunities for certified small businesses
to compete for those contracting opportunities. As used in this
section, “goods” excludes information technology.

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