By: Noriega, Bonnen, Bohac H.B. No. 2293

(Senate Sponsor - Watson)

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2007; May 15, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Government Organization; May 17, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 17, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a requirement that state agencies purchase low-emissions vehicles as a minimum percentage of their vehicles purchased.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 2158, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 2158.009 to read as follows:

Sec. 2158.009. LOW-EMISSIONS VEHICLES PURCHASING REQUIREMENT. (a) This section applies only to a state agency that purchases 10 or more vehicles in a state fiscal biennium.

(b) A state agency authorized to purchase passenger vehicles or other ground transportation vehicles for general use shall ensure that not less than 10 percent of its vehicle purchases during any state fiscal biennium are purchases of vehicles that meet or exceed the emissions standards necessary to be rated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a Tier II, Bin 3, emissions standard vehicle that has a greenhouse gas score of eight under regulations of that agency as they existed September 1, 2007.

(c) A state agency is exempt from Subsection (b) to the extent that a vehicle described by that subsection that meets the agency's operational needs is not commercially available.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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