Connecticut 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06127 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/24/2011

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 6127
January Session, 2011  LCO No. 1353
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
REP. LUXENBERG, 12th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 6127 

January Session, 2011

LCO No. 1353

Referred to Committee on Transportation 

Introduced by:

REP. LUXENBERG, 12th Dist.

AN ACT PROMOTING THE USE OF FUEL CELLS IN VEHICLES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended (1) to require that at least one per cent of the state fleet of light duty passenger vehicles and one per cent of the transit bus fleet use fuel cells by 2015 and at least ten per cent of such fleets use fuel cells by 2025, and (2) to exempt all fuel cell vehicle purchases from the sales tax.

Statement of Purpose: 

To implement recommendations from a report of the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology and the Department of Transportation.