I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2395 
To enable State and local promotion of natural gas, flexible fuel, and high- 
efficiency motor vehicle fleets. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 13, 2009 
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 natural gas, flexible 
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.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this section, 
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 metropoli-
tan statistical area or consolidated metropolitan sta-
tistical area, as established by the Bureau of the 
Census, with a 2000 population of more than 
250,000, that are— 
(A) centrally dispatched, or 
(B) centrally fueled or capable of being 
centrally fueled and owned, operated, leased, or 
otherwise controlled by a governmental entity or 
other person who owns, operates, leases, or oth-
erwise controls 50 or more such vehicles, by any 
person who controls such person, by any person 
controlled by such person, and by any person 
under common control with such person. 
(2) EXCLUDED VEHICLES.—Such term does not 
include— 
(A) motor vehicles held for lease or rental 
to the general public; 
(B) motor vehicles held for sale by motor 
vehicle dealers, including demonstration motor 
vehicles; 
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(C) motor vehicles used for motor vehicle 
manufacturer product evaluations or tests; 
(D) law enforcement motor vehicles; 
(E) emergency motor vehicles; or 
(F) motor vehicles acquired and used for 
military purposes that the Secretary of Defense 
has certified to the Secretary must be exempt 
for national security reasons. 
(3) PURCHASE
REQUIREMENT.—For purposes 
of this section, a purchase requirement is a State or 
local legal requirement applying to the acquisition of 
fleet vehicles. Such requirements 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) utilize natural gas as a fuel, 
(B) are flexible fuel vehicles, meaning vehi-
cles that have been warranted by their manu-
facturer to operate on gasoline, E85, and M85, 
or 
(C) 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 
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