California § 25722.5 - Each state office, agency, and department shall review its vehicle fleet and, upo

§ 25722.5. Each state office, agency, and department shall review its vehicle fleet and, upo

(a) Each state office, agency, and department shall review its vehicle fleet and, upon finding that it is fiscally prudent, cost effective, or otherwise in the public interest to do so, shall dispose of nonessential sport utility vehicles and four-wheel drive trucks in its fleet and replace these vehicles with more fuel-efficient passenger cars and trucks. (b) To the maximum extent practicable, each state office, agency, and department that has bifuel natural gas, bifuel propane, and flex fuel vehicles in its vehicle fleet shall use the respective alternative fuel in those vehicles. (c) The Director of General Services shall compile annually and maintain information on the nature of vehicles that are owned or leased by the state, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) The number of passenger-type motor vehicles purchased or leased during the year, and the number owned or leased as of December 31 of each year. (2) The number of sport utility vehicles and four-wheel drive trucks purchased or leased by the state during the year, and the number owned or leased as of December 31 of each year. (3) The number of alternatively fueled vehicles and hybrid vehicles purchased or leased by the state during the year, and the total number owned or leased as of December 31 of each year and their location. (4) The locations of the alternative fuel pumps available for those vehicles. (5) The justification provided for all sport utility vehicles and four-wheel drive trucks purchased or leased by the state and the specific office, department, or agency responsible for the purchase or lease. (6) The number of sport utility vehicles and four-wheel drive trucks purchased or leased by the state during the year, and the number owned or leased as of December 31 of each year that are alternative fuel or hybrid vehicles. (7) The number of light-duty trucks disposed of under subdivision (a). (8) The total dollars spent by the state on passenger-type vehicle purchases and leases, categorized by sport utility vehicle and nonsport utility vehicle, and within each of those categories, by alternative fuel, hybrid, and other. (9) The total annual consumption of gasoline and diesel fuel used by the state fleet. (10) The total annual consumption of alternative fuels. (11) On December 31, 2009, and annually thereafter, the Director of General Services shall also compile the total annual vehicle miles traveled by vehicles in the state fleet. (d) Each state office, agency, and department shall cooperate with the Department of General Services’ data requests in order that the department may compile and maintain the information required in subdivision (c). (e) As soon as practicable, but no later than 12 months after receiving the data, the information compiled and maintained under subdivision (c) and a list of those state offices, agencies, and departments that are not in compliance with subdivision (d) shall be made available to the public on the Department of General Services’ internet website. (f) Beginning July 1, 2009, and every three years thereafter, the Director of General Services shall prepare a report on the information compiled and maintained pursuant to subdivision (c). The Director of General Services shall post that report on its internet website. (g) Pursuant to Article IX of the California Constitution, this section does not apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make this section applicable.