| 1 | 1 | | 81R2187 JJT-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Villarreal H.B. No. 657 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the requirement that state agencies purchase |
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| 8 | 8 | | low-emissions vehicles as a minimum percentage of their purchased |
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| 9 | 9 | | vehicles. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 2158.009, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 12 | 12 | | amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as |
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| 13 | 13 | | follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (b) A state agency authorized to purchase passenger |
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| 15 | 15 | | vehicles or other ground transportation vehicles for general use |
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| 16 | 16 | | shall ensure that not less than 50 [10] percent of the vehicles the |
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| 17 | 17 | | agency [its vehicle] purchases during any state fiscal biennium, |
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| 18 | 18 | | other than vehicles the purchase of which is exempted from this |
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| 19 | 19 | | subsection by Subsection (c) or (d), are [purchases of] vehicles |
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| 20 | 20 | | that meet or exceed the emissions standards necessary to be rated by |
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| 21 | 21 | | the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a Tier II, Bin |
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| 22 | 22 | | 3, emissions standard vehicle that has a greenhouse gas score of |
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| 23 | 23 | | eight under regulations of that agency as they existed September 1, |
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| 24 | 24 | | 2007. |
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| 25 | 25 | | (d) Subsection (b) does not apply to a state agency's |
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| 26 | 26 | | purchase of a vehicle to be used by a peace officer, as defined by |
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| 27 | 27 | | Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, whose duties include the |
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| 28 | 28 | | apprehension of persons for violation of a criminal law of this |
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| 29 | 29 | | state. |
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| 30 | 30 | | SECTION 2. Section 2158.009(a), Government Code, is |
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| 31 | 31 | | repealed. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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