HB4064 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB4064

Introduced , by Rep. Roger L. Eddy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 500/25-75

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Removes a provision permitting the Chief Procurement Officer to exempt certain vehicle procurements from a Section requiring all gasoline-powered vehicles purchased from State funds to be flexible fuel or fuel efficient hybrid vehicles and all diesel fuel vehicles purchased from State funds to be certified by the manufacturer to run on 5% biodiesel fuel. Effective immediately.

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AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by changing Section 25-75 as follows:

(30 ILCS 500/25-75)

Sec. 25-75. Purchase of motor vehicles.

(a) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, all gasoline-powered vehicles purchased from State funds must be flexible fuel vehicles. Beginning July 1, 2007, all gasoline-powered vehicles purchased from State funds must be flexible fuel or fuel efficient hybrid vehicles. For purposes of this Section, "flexible fuel vehicles" are automobiles or light trucks that operate on either gasoline or E-85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) fuel and "Fuel efficient hybrid vehicles" are automobiles or light trucks that use a gasoline or diesel engine and an electric motor to provide power and gain at least a 20% increase in combined US-EPA city-highway fuel economy over the equivalent or most-similar conventionally-powered model.

(b) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, any vehicle purchased from State funds that is fueled by diesel fuel shall be certified by the manufacturer to run on 5% biodiesel (B5) fuel.

(c) (Blank). The Chief Procurement Officer may determine that certain vehicle procurements are exempt from this Section based on intended use or other reasonable considerations such as health and safety of Illinois citizens.

(Source: P.A. 94-1079, eff. 6-1-07.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.