BILL NUMBER: SB 1265	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  398
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 28, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hueso

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1265, 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 as
nonplug-in hybrid electric 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 hybrid
electric vehicles or battery electric vehicles.


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, the Department of
General Services, in consultation with the commission, shall
establish a minimum fuel economy standard that is above the standard,
as it 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 nonplug-in
hybrid electric vehicles. The minimum fuel economy standard required
by this subdivision does not apply to plug-in hybrid electric
vehicles or battery electric vehicles.
   (b) 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 more than one source,
such as nonplug-in hybrid electric vehicles, shall meet the fuel
economy standard established under subdivision (a). This subdivision
does not apply to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles or battery
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 and modified for the following
purposes are exempt from this 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.