SB 1265, as amended, Hueso. 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 asbegin insert nonplug-inend insert hybridbegin insert electricend insert vehicles, and would require new state vehicle fleet purchases of those vehicles to conform to that standard. These requirements would not apply to plug-inbegin insert hybridend insert electric vehiclesbegin insert or battery electric vehiclesend insert.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 25722.7 of the Public Resources Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) In order to further achieve the policy objectives
4set forth in Sections 25000.5, 25722, and 25722.5, the Department
5of General Services, in consultation with the commission, shall
6establish a minimum fuel economy standard that is above the
7standard, as it existed on January 1, 2007, established pursuant to
8Section 3620.1 of the State Administrative Manual, for the
9purchase of passenger vehicles and light duty trucks for the state
10fleet that are powered solely by internal combustion engines
11utilizing fossil fuels or that are powered by more than one source,
12such asbegin insert nonplug-inend insert
hybrid begin insertelectric end insertvehicles. The minimum fuel
13economy standard required by this subdivision does not apply to
14plug-inbegin insert hybridend insert electric vehiclesbegin insert or battery electric vehiclesend insert.
15(b) All new state fleet purchases by the Department of General
16Services and any other state entities of passenger vehicles and light
17duty trucks that are powered solely by internal combustion engines
18utilizing fossil fuels, or that are powered by more than one source,
19such asbegin insert nonplug-inend insert
hybridbegin insert electricend insert vehicles, shall meet the fuel
20economy standard established under subdivision (a). This
21subdivision does not apply to plug-inbegin insert hybridend insert electric vehiclesbegin insert or
22battery electric vehiclesend insert.
23(c) Authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165
24of the Vehicle Code, and vehicles identified in paragraph (3) of
25subdivision (a) of Section 25722.5, are exempt from this section.
26(d) Vehicles that are purchased and modified for the following
27purposes are exempt from this
section:
28(1) To provide services by a state entity to an individual with a
29disability or a developmental disability, as defined under the
30statutes or regulations governing that state entity.
31(2) As a reasonable accommodation for the known physical or
32mental disability, as defined in Section 12926 of the Government
33Code, of an employee.
34(e) For purposes of this section, “state entities” includes all state
35departments, boards, commissions, programs, and other
36organizational units of the executive, legislative, and judicial
37branches of state government, the California Community Colleges,
38the California State University, and the University of California.
P3 1(f) No
provision of this section shall apply to the University of
2California except to the extent that the Regents of the University
3of California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision
4applicable.
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