Senate File 343 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  WARNSTADT


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring the department of administrative services to
  2    convert state=owned vehicles under the department's control to
  3    alternative fuel vehicles.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1730XS 82
  6 ec/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 8A.362, subsection 5, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    Of By July 1, 2014, all new state=owned passenger vehicles
  1  4 and light pickup trucks purchased by under the control of the
  1  5 director, a minimum of ten percent of all such vehicles and
  1  6 trucks purchased shall be equipped with engines which utilize
  1  7 alternative methods of propulsion including but not limited to
  1  8 any of the following:
  1  9                           EXPLANATION
  1 10    This bill provides that all state=owned passenger vehicles
  1 11 and light pickup trucks under the control of the director of
  1 12 the department of administrative services shall have engines
  1 13 which utilize alternative fuels.  Under current law, the
  1 14 director is required to purchase at least 10 percent of new
  1 15 vehicles and light pickup trucks with engines that utilize
  1 16 alternative fuels.  The current exception from this
  1 17 requirement for vehicles and trucks purchased and used for law
  1 18 enforcement or for off=road maintenance work or to pull loaded
  1 19 trailers is unchanged by the bill.
  1 20 LSB 1730XS 82
  1 21 ec:nh/gg/14