1-1 By: Earley (Senate Sponsor - Shelley) H.B. No. 1486 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1993; 1-3 May 13, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 24, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 1; May 24, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Harris of Dallas x 1-9 Rosson x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Leedom x 1-13 Lucio x 1-14 Luna x 1-15 Nelson x 1-16 Patterson x 1-17 Shelley x 1-18 Sibley x 1-19 West x 1-20 Whitmire x 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to requiring a state agency to consider the total cost to 1-24 the state of acquiring and operating a vehicle, including fuel 1-25 consumption costs, when the agency acquires a vehicle. 1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-27 SECTION 1. Section 3.29, State Purchasing and General 1-28 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-29 amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-30 (i) A state agency that purchases or leases a vehicle shall 1-31 consider, when determining the lowest and best bid to supply the 1-32 vehicle, the state's probable total costs relating to the vehicle 1-33 over the period that the state projects it will use the vehicle. 1-34 The probable total costs include lease or net purchase costs, 1-35 accounting for the probable resale value of the vehicle, estimated 1-36 maintenance costs, and estimated fuel costs. If the combined 1-37 usefulness and estimated total cost to the state of different 1-38 vehicles are equal, the agency shall give a preference to the more 1-39 fuel-efficient vehicle. This subsection does not affect a state 1-40 agency's duty under Subsections (b)-(h) of this section to acquire 1-41 a vehicle that uses or may be converted to use alternative fuels. 1-42 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-48 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-49 * * * * * 1-50 Austin, 1-51 Texas 1-52 May 24, 1993 1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-54 President of the Senate 1-55 Sir: 1-56 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B. 1-57 No. 1486, have had the same under consideration, and I am 1-58 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation 1-59 that it do pass and be printed. 1-60 Harris of 1-61 Dallas, Chairman 1-62 * * * * * 1-63 WITNESSES 1-64 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1486.