Bill > A3377

Introduced Session

The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of State vehicles in the Executive Branch of State government by 10 percent each fiscal year for five consecutive years, except under certain circumstances. The bill exempts the Division of State Police and the Division of Gaming Enforcement in the Department of Law and Public Safety, and their vehicles, and also exempts vehicles and equipment used for construction, maintenance, or emergency services purposes, from the provisions of the bill. The bill provides that the State Treasurer must adopt, within six months of enactment of the bill, a comprehensive plan for the reduction in the number of State vehicles in the Executive Branch of the State government. The plan must provide for the systematic reduction of the State vehicle fleet by 10 percent each year for five consecutive fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year that commences more than six months after the effective date of the act. However, in considering the 10 percent annual reduction, the panel must make an assessment of the number of vehicles needed to maintain efficient State services, and must recommend a reduction of less than 10 percent, but not lower than eight percent, when necessary to maintain efficient State services. In each applicable fiscal year, there must also be a reduction in the funding for the State vehicle accounts in the annual appropriations law that corresponds to the reduction in the number of State vehicles in accordance with the plan. The comprehensive plan would be prepared by a panel comprised of the State Treasurer, a member of the Governor's staff designated by the Governor, and the commissioner of each department of State government, or a designee. If the panel determines that the reduction goal cannot be implemented in five fiscal years, it must provide a statement detailing the panel's reasoning and conclusion and specifying how many additional fiscal years, not to exceed three fiscal years, will be required to achieve the reduction goal. Following the effective date of the bill, any request for an additional State vehicle to be added to the State fleet in the Executive Branch of State government, not including a replacement vehicle, will be reviewed by the panel. The panel will either deny or approve a request for an additional State vehicle, and will develop criteria for use in its determinations. The criteria will include the duties and requirements of the position requiring a State vehicle, the funding source for the State vehicle, the existence of other substantially similar positions that are assigned a State vehicle, the period of time for which the State vehicle will be needed, the essential or supportive nature of the State vehicle, and whether an existing State vehicle may be transferred for the same purpose. The decision of the panel to deny or approve a request to add a vehicle to the State fleet will be considered final and binding, without the need for written approval by the State Treasurer for each addition. The proceeds from the sale of any State vehicle sold pursuant to the provisions of the bill will be deposited into the special, non-lapsing fund into which is deposited the proceeds of the sale of State-owned real property.

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Jay Webber (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 02/01/2024)

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