BILL NUMBER: SB 1265 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 21, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Senator Hueso
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
An act to add Section 14842.7 to the Government Code,
relating to public contracts. An act to amend Section
25722.7 of the Public Resources Code, relating to state vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1265, as amended, Hueso. Public contracts: small
business participation: pilot program. 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.
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.
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.
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 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. 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, or that are powered
by the Department of General Services and any other
state entities 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 25722.5,
are exempt from this section.
(d) Vehicles purchased, that are purchased
and modified for the following purposes,
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.
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.