81R2187 JJT-D
 
  By: Watson S.B. No. 763
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirement that state agencies purchase
  low-emissions vehicles as a minimum percentage of their purchased
  vehicles.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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 2.  Section 2158.009(a), Government Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.