Bill Text: CA AB739 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 739 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: State vehicle fleet: purchases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 639, Statutes of 2017. [AB739 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB739-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly April 17, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 739

Introduced by Assembly Member Chau

February 15, 2017

An act to add Section 25722.11 to the Public Resources Code, relating to vehicular air pollution.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 739, as amended, Chau. State vehicle fleet: purchases.

Existing law requires all new state fleet purchases made by the Department of General Services and other state entities of certain passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks to meet the fuel economy standard established by the department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Government Operations Agency, in consultation with the department and other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to improve the overall state fleet’s use of alternative fuels, synthetic lubricants, and fuel-efficient vehicles by reducing or displacing the consumption of petroleum products by the state fleet.

This bill ~~would~~ would, except as provided, require, by December 31, 2025, at least 15% of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 19,000 pounds or more purchased by the department and other state entities for the state fleet to be zero-emission and by December 31, 2030, at least 30% of ~~heavy-duty~~ those vehicles ~~purchased by the department and other state agencies for the state fleet~~ to be zero-emission.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 25722.11 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

25722.11.

(a) By December 31, 2025, at least 15 percent of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 19,000 pounds or more purchased by the Department of General Services and other state entities for the state fleet shall be zero-emission. By December 31, 2030, at least 30 percent of ~~heavy-duty~~ vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 19,000 pounds or more purchased by the Department of General Services and ~~any~~ other state entities for the state fleet shall be zero-emission.

(b) This section does not apply to vehicles that have special performance requirements necessary for the protection of public safety, as defined by the Department of General Services.