81R2187 JJT-D
By: Villarreal H.B. No. 657
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirement that state agencies purchase
low-emissions vehicles as a minimum percentage of their purchased
vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2158.009, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(b) A state agency authorized to purchase passenger
vehicles or other ground transportation vehicles for general use
shall ensure that not less than 50 [10] percent of the vehicles the
agency [its vehicle] purchases during any state fiscal biennium,
other than vehicles the purchase of which is exempted from this
subsection by Subsection (c) or (d), are [purchases of] vehicles
that meet or exceed the emissions standards necessary to be rated by
the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a Tier II, Bin
3, emissions standard vehicle that has a greenhouse gas score of
eight under regulations of that agency as they existed September 1,
2007.
(d) Subsection (b) does not apply to a state agency's
purchase of a vehicle to be used by a peace officer, as defined by
Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, whose duties include the
apprehension of persons for violation of a criminal law of this
state.
SECTION 2. Section 2158.009(a), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.