I 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘State and Local Fleet 
Efficiency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL PROMOTION OF NATURAL GAS, 
FLEXIBLE 
FUEL, 
AND 
HIGH-EFFICIENCY 
MOTOR VEHICLE FLEETS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) FLEET.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘fleet’’ 
means a group of 20 or more light duty motor 
vehicles, medium duty motor vehicles, or heavy 
duty motor vehicles capable of carrying 14 or 
more passengers, operating primarily in a met-
ropolitan statistical area or consolidated metro-
politan statistical area, as established by the 
Bureau of the Census, with a 2000 population 
of more than 250,000, that are— 
(i) centrally dispatched; or 
(ii)(I) centrally fueled or capable of 
being centrally fueled; and 
(II) owned, operated, leased, or other-
wise controlled by a governmental entity or 
other person who owns, operates, leases, or 
otherwise controls 50 or more such vehi-
cles, by any person who controls such per-
son, by any person controlled by such per-
son, or by any person under common con-
trol with such person. 
(B) EXCLUDED
VEHICLES.—The term 
‘‘fleet’’ does not include— 
(i) motor vehicles held for lease or 
rental to the general public; 
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(ii) motor vehicles held for sale by 
motor vehicle dealers, including demonstra-
tion motor vehicles; 
(iii) motor vehicles used for motor ve-
hicle manufacturer product evaluations or 
tests; 
(iv) law enforcement motor vehicles; 
(v) emergency motor vehicles; or 
(vi) motor vehicles acquired and used 
for military purposes that the Secretary of 
Defense has certified to the Secretary of 
Energy must be exempt for national secu-
rity reasons. 
(2) 
PURCHASE
REQUIREMENT.—The 
term 
‘‘purchase requirement’’ means a State or local legal 
requirement applying to the acquisition of fleet vehi-
cles. Such a requirement may specify that when a 
fleet owner or operator acquires a new fleet vehicle, 
such owner or operator may acquire only new fleet 
vehicles that— 
(A) have been warranted by their manufac-
turer to operate on natural gas, hydrogen, or 
biodiesel; 
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(B) are flexible fuel vehicles, meaning vehi-
cles that have been warranted by their manu-
facturer to operate on gasoline, E85, and M85; 
(C) are plug-in electric drive vehicles; 
(D) are propelled solely by a fuel cell that 
produces power without the use of petroleum or 
a petroleum-based fuel; 
(E) are propelled solely by something other 
than an internal combustion engine and 
produce power without the use of petroleum or 
a petroleum-based fuel; or 
(F) meet a technology or performance 
based characteristic that is commercially avail-
able. 
(b) STATE AND LOCAL FLEET REQUIREMENTS.— 
Nothing in this Act or in any other provision of law shall 
be construed to limit the authority of any State or local 
government to establish purchase requirements applicable 
to fleets operating primarily within the jurisdiction of the 
State or local government if such requirements are in-
tended to further any policy regarding climate change, the 
control of air pollution, energy independence, or local eco-
nomic benefits. No such State or local requirement shall 
be considered to be an undue burden on interstate com-
merce. A fleet operating in more than one jurisdiction in 
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any calendar year shall be treated as operating primarily 
in the jurisdiction in which the largest number of vehicle 
miles were traveled by vehicles in the fleet in the 5-cal-
endar-year period immediately preceding such calendar 
year. 
(c) SAVINGS.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
as granting additional authority to State or local govern-
ments to establish requirements upon the manufacturers 
of vehicles. 
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