Senate File 369

                                     SENATE FILE       
                                     BY  COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
                                         AND ENVIRONMENT

                                     (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1160)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to E=85 ethanol.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 3124SV 80
  4 da/pj/5

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 159A.2, Code 2003, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  3A.  "Department" means the department of
  1  4 agriculture and land stewardship.
  1  5    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  159A.6C  E=85 ETHANOL BLENDED
  1  6 GASOLINE PROGRAM.
  1  7    The department, including the office, and other agencies of
  1  8 this state shall cooperatively establish programs to increase
  1  9 the demand for and production and consumption of E=85 ethanol
  1 10 blended gasoline as provided in specifications adopted by the
  1 11 department pursuant to section 214A.2.
  1 12    Sec. 3.  Section 214A.2, subsection 3, Code 2003, is
  1 13 amended to read as follows:
  1 14    3.  a.  Gasoline with a mixture of less than ten percent
  1 15 ethanol shall be known as high=emission gasoline.
  1 16    b.  Gasoline with a mixture of ten percent or more ethanol,
  1 17 but not more than thirteen percent, shall be known as
  1 18 conventional blend ethanol.
  1 19    b. c.  Gasoline with a mixture of more than thirteen
  1 20 percent ethanol, but not more than twenty=five percent
  1 21 ethanol, shall be known as high blend ethanol.  For purposes
  1 22 of chapters 323A, 422, and 452A, high blend ethanol shall be
  1 23 treated as conventional blend ethanol.
  1 24    c. d.  Gasoline shall not contain with a mixture of eighty=
  1 25 five percent or more than twenty=five percent ethanol shall be
  1 26 known as E=85 ethanol blended gasoline.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill amends Code chapter 159A, which establishes an
  1 29 office of renewable fuels and coproducts within the department
  1 30 of agriculture and land stewardship.  The bill provides that
  1 31 the department, including the office, and other agencies of
  1 32 this state must establish programs to increase the demand for
  1 33 and production and consumption of E=85 ethanol blended
  1 34 gasoline.  The department regulates specifications relating to
  1 35 gasoline, including E=85 pursuant to Code chapter 214A.  The
  2  1 bill also amends that Code chapter to provide that E=85
  2  2 gasoline is gasoline blended with at least 85 percent ethanol.
  2  3 LSB 3124SV 80
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