Senate File 537 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO SF 343)


    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 1730SV 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, 2011, 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, if such vehicles
  1  8 and engines are available for purchase.  For purposes of this
  1  9 subsection, alternative methods of propulsion include but are
  1 10 not limited to any of the following:
  1 11    Sec. 2.  Section 8A.362, subsection 5, paragraphs b and c,
  1 12 Code 2007, are amended by striking the paragraphs.
  1 13    Sec. 3.  Section 8A.362, subsection 5, paragraph e, Code
  1 14 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1 15    e.  Electricity, or a combination of electric and
  1 16 petroleum=based fuel technology.
  1 17    Sec. 4.  Section 8A.362, subsection 5, Code 2007, is
  1 18 amended by adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  1 19    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  By February 1 of each year, the
  1 20 director shall provide a list of the types of passenger
  1 21 vehicles and light pick=up trucks purchased by the state for
  1 22 which engines which utilize alternative methods of propulsion
  1 23 are not available for purchase by the state, the number of
  1 24 such vehicles currently in the state fleet, and the
  1 25 justification for continuing to purchase such vehicles, if a
  1 26 purchase is to be made.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill provides that all state=owned passenger vehicles
  1 29 and light pickup trucks under the control of the director of
  1 30 the department of administrative services shall have engines
  1 31 which utilize alternative fuels by July 1, 2011, if such
  1 32 vehicles and engines are available.  The bill provides that
  1 33 vehicles that utilize a combination of electric and
  1 34 petroleum=based fuel technology qualify as a vehicle that uses
  1 35 an alternative method of propulsion.  The bill also requires
  2  1 the director to provide a list, by February 1 of each year, of
  2  2 the types of vehicles which do not utilize alternative methods
  2  3 of propulsion and the number of those vehicles in the state
  2  4 fleet.  Under current law, the director is required to
  2  5 purchase at least 10 percent of new vehicles and light pickup
  2  6 trucks with engines that utilize alternative fuels.  The
  2  7 current exception from this requirement for vehicles and
  2  8 trucks purchased and used for law enforcement or for off=road
  2  9 maintenance work or to pull loaded trailers is unchanged by
  2 10 the bill.
  2 11 LSB 1730SV 82
  2 12 ec:nh/gg/14.1