California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2622

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, begin delete on or before
June 1, 2007, end delete the Department of General Services begin insert , 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 fuels begin insert 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 delete by the
Department of General Services and any other state entities end delete begin insert or that
are powered by 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 25722.5 begin insert , end insert are exempt from this section.

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

(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.