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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the requirement that state agencies purchase |
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low-emissions vehicles as a minimum percentage of their purchased |
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vehicles. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 2158.009, Government Code, is amended by |
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amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as |
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follows: |
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(b) A state agency authorized to purchase passenger |
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vehicles or other ground transportation vehicles for general use |
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shall ensure that not less than 50 [10] percent of the vehicles the |
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agency [its vehicle] purchases during any state fiscal biennium, |
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other than vehicles the purchase of which is exempted from this |
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subsection by Subsection (c) or (d), are [purchases of] vehicles |
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that meet or exceed the emissions standards necessary to be rated by |
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the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a Tier II, Bin |
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3, emissions standard vehicle that has a greenhouse gas score of |
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eight under regulations of that agency as they existed September 1, |
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2007. |
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(d) Subsection (b) does not apply to a state agency's |
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purchase of a vehicle to be used by a peace officer, as defined by |
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Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, whose duties include the |
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apprehension of persons for violation of a criminal law of this |
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state. |
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SECTION 2. Section 2158.009(a), Government Code, is |
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repealed. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |