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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4834 

To enable State and local promotion of alternative fuel and high-efficiency 

motor vehicle fleets. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 18, 2018 

Mr. ENGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To enable State and local promotion of alternative fuel and 

high-efficiency motor vehicle fleets. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘State and Local Fleet 

5 Efficiency Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL PROMOTION OF NATURAL GAS, 

7 FLEXIBLE FUEL, AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY 

8 MOTOR VEHICLE FLEETS. 

9 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 

10 (1) FLEET.— 


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1 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘fleet’’ 

2 means a group of 20 or more light duty motor 

3 vehicles, medium duty motor vehicles, or heavy 

4 duty motor vehicles capable of carrying 14 or 

5 more passengers, operating primarily in a met6 ropolitan statistical area or consolidated metro7 politan statistical area, as established by the 

8 Bureau of the Census, with a 2000 population 

9 of more than 250,000, that are— 

10 (i) centrally dispatched; or 

11 (ii)(I) centrally fueled or capable of 

12 being centrally fueled; and 

13 (II) owned, operated, leased, or other14 wise controlled by a governmental entity or 

15 other person who owns, operates, leases, or 

16 otherwise controls 50 or more such vehi17 cles, by any person who controls such per18 son, by any person controlled by such per19 son, or by any person under common con20 trol with such person. 

21 (B) EXCLUDED VEHICLES.—The term 

22 ‘‘fleet’’ does not include— 

23 (i) motor vehicles held for lease or 

24 rental to the general public; 


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1 (ii) motor vehicles held for sale by 

2 motor vehicle dealers, including demonstra3 tion motor vehicles; 

4 (iii) motor vehicles used for motor ve5 hicle manufacturer product evaluations or 

6 tests; 

7 (iv) law enforcement motor vehicles; 

8 (v) emergency motor vehicles; or 

9 (vi) motor vehicles acquired and used 

10 for military purposes that the Secretary of 

11 Defense has certified to the Secretary of 

12 Energy must be exempt for national secu13 rity reasons. 

14 (2) PURCHASE REQUIREMENT.—The term 

15 ‘‘purchase requirement’’ means a State or local legal 

16 requirement applying to the acquisition of fleet vehi17 cles. Such a requirement may specify that when a 

18 fleet owner or operator acquires a new fleet vehicle, 

19 such owner or operator may acquire only new fleet 

20 vehicles that— 

21 (A) have been warranted by their manufac22 turer to operate on natural gas, hydrogen, or 

23 biodiesel; 


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1 (B) are flexible fuel vehicles, meaning vehi2 cles that have been warranted by their manu3 facturer to operate on gasoline, E85, and M85; 

4 (C) are plug-in electric drive vehicles; 

5 (D) are propelled solely by a fuel cell that 

6 produces power without the use of petroleum or 

7 a petroleum-based fuel; 

8 (E) are propelled solely by something other 

9 than an internal combustion engine and 

10 produce power without the use of petroleum or 

11 a petroleum-based fuel; or 

12 (F) meet a technology or performance 

13 based characteristic that is commercially avail14 able. 

15 (b) STATE AND LOCAL FLEET REQUIREMENTS.— 

16 Nothing in this Act or in any other provision of law shall 

17 be construed to limit the authority of any State or local 

18 government to establish purchase requirements applicable 

19 to fleets operating primarily within the jurisdiction of the 

20 State or local government if such requirements are in21 tended to further any policy regarding climate change, the 

22 control of air pollution, energy independence, or local eco23 nomic benefits. No such State or local requirement shall 

24 be considered to be an undue burden on interstate com25 merce. A fleet operating in more than one jurisdiction in 


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1 any calendar year shall be treated as operating primarily 

2 in the jurisdiction in which the largest number of vehicle 

3 miles were traveled by vehicles in the fleet in the 5-cal4 endar-year period immediately preceding such calendar 

5 year. 

6 (c) SAVINGS.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed 

7 as granting additional authority to State or local govern8 ments to establish requirements upon the manufacturers 

9 of vehicles. 

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