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Amend SB 1862 (committee printing) by adding the following
sections and renumbering accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 2158.009, Government Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(b) A state agency authorized to purchase passenger
vehicles or other ground transportation vehicles for general use
shall ensure that not less than 50 [10] percent of the vehicles the
agency [its vehicle] purchases during any state fiscal biennium,
other than vehicles the purchase of which is exempted from this
subsection by Subsection (c) or (d), 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.
(d) Subsection (b) does not apply to a state agency's
purchase of a vehicle to be used by a peace officer, as defined by
Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, whose duties include the
apprehension of persons for violation of a criminal law of this
state.
SECTION ____. Section 2158.009(a), Government Code, is
repealed.