Title: CHARGE Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Charging Helps Agencies Realize General Efficiencies Act or the CHARGE Act
This bill requires the General Services Administration to issue (1) guidance to clarify that federal agencies may use a charge card to pay to charge federal electric motor vehicles at commercial charging stations, and (2) a charge card for such payments to each agency for each of the agency's electric motor vehicles.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2193 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2193

 To require the Administrator of General Services to issue guidance to 
 clarify that Federal agencies may pay by charge card for the charging 
      of Federal electric motor vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2019

  Mr. Peters introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Administrator of General Services to issue guidance to 
 clarify that Federal agencies may pay by charge card for the charging 
      of Federal electric motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Charging Helps Agencies Realize 
General Efficiencies Act'' or the ``CHARGE Act''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT BY CHARGE CARD FOR CHARGING FEDERAL ELECTRIC MOTOR 
              VEHICLES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this Act--
            (1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
        General Services;
            (2) the term ``charge card''--
                    (A) means a card, plate, coupon book, or other 
                credit device existing for the purpose of obtaining 
                money, property, labor, or services on credit; and
                    (B) includes--
                            (i) a card issued under the GSA SmartPay 
                        program; and
                            (ii) a Fleet Services card;
            (3) the term ``covered electric motor vehicle'' means a 
        passenger carrier that is--
                    (A) a passenger motor vehicle; and
                    (B) an electric motor vehicle;
            (4) the term ``electric motor vehicle'' has the meaning 
        given the term in section 601 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 
        (42 U.S.C. 13271);
            (5) the term ``electric motor vehicle charging station'' 
        means a battery-charging station that permits the transfer of 
        electric energy (by conductive or inductive means) to a battery 
        or other storage device in an electric motor vehicle; and
            (6) the terms ``Federal agency'' and ``passenger carrier'' 
        have the meanings given those terms in section 1344(h) of title 
        31, United States Code.
    (b) Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator shall issue guidance to clarify that 
each Federal agency may, in accordance with section 1344 of title 31, 
United States Code--
            (1) charge a covered electric motor vehicle at a commercial 
        electric motor vehicle charging station; and
            (2) pay for a transaction described in paragraph (1) with a 
        charge card.
    (c) Issuance of Charge Cards.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall issue to each 
Federal agency a charge card for each covered electric motor vehicle of 
the Federal agency that may be used by the Federal agency to charge the 
covered motor vehicle in accordance with the guidance issued under 
subsection (b).
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