Revision: Jan. 30, 2009, midnight
SB 68-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
08/09
SENATE BILL 68-FN
AN ACT relative to the use of state vehicles.
SPONSORS: Sen. Cilley, Dist 6; Sen. DeVries, Dist 18; Sen. Odell, Dist 8; Sen. Hassan, Dist 23; Rep. S. Price, Straf 3; Rep. Keans, Straf 1; Rep. Mann, Rock 1; Rep. Pilotte, Hills 16
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill encourages more efficient use of state-owned vehicles.
This bill is a request of the department of environmental services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0890
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to the use of state vehicles.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Use of State-Owned Passenger Automobiles. Amend RSA 21-I by inserting after section 19-f the following new section:
21-I:19-g Use of State-Owned Passenger Automobiles. The department of administrative services shall determine for each 2-year budget cycle the minimum number of miles required to justify retaining a state-owned vehicle. The minimum number of miles shall take into account operational costs, depreciation, and mileage reimbursement rates for use of personal vehicles. The department of administrative services may also allow an agency to submit a fleet management plan that justifies using an average of miles across all passenger vehicles in lieu of meeting the minimum miles required on a per vehicle basis. If a state-owned passenger automobile is assigned to a state agency for the entire fiscal year and such vehicle is not used for travel at or above the minimum mileage requirement during such year, such vehicle shall be transferred to the director of plant and property management and declared surplus by the director; provided that an agency may within 30 days prior to the end of the fiscal year apply to the fiscal committee of the general court to retain such vehicle. If such agency presents a clear and convincing case for the continued assignment of a vehicle to the agency, the fiscal committee may permit the agency to retain a vehicle. The director of plant and property management shall either sell or transfer vehicles declared to be surplus by him or her pursuant to this section to any state agency having employees who travel more than 12,000 miles annually and who are being reimbursed for travel in privately-owned vehicles. The term “agency” as used in this section includes a department, institution, board, division, and commission.
2 Repeal. 1981, 568:11, relative to use of state-owned automobiles, is repealed.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
09-0890
01/29/09
SB 68-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to the use of state vehicles.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Administrative Services and the Department of Environmental Services state this bill will decrease state expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2009 and each year thereafter. This bill will have no fiscal impact on state, county, or local revenue and county or local expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Administrative Services states this bill allows the Department to determine the minimum number of miles required to justify the retention of a state owned vehicle, or fleet of vehicles by a state agency for each two year budget cycle. Additionally, the proposed legislation requires that state owned vehicles traveling less than the established mileage threshold be transferred to the Director of Plant and Property Management for reassignment to another agency demonstrating an adequate need.
The Department states that although savings are likely to accrue as a result of increased efficiencies in the utilization of state owned vehicles, the extent to which the anticipated savings will decrease state expenditures is indeterminable.
The Department of Environmental Services states this bill will decrease state expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2009 and each year thereafter.