The Department of Enterprise Services (DES) manages procurement of goods and services for state agencies and sets policies and procedures for the state's purchases. In 2007, the Legislature authorized the state to purchase power at its own expense to recharge both private and public plug-in electric vehicles at state-owned locations where the vehicles are used for state business, are commute vehicles, or where the vehicles are at the same location for the purpose of conducting business with the state. The director of DES may report to the Governor and the appropriate committees of the Legislature, as deemed necessary by the director, on the:
By December 31st of each year, beginning in 2022, the director of DES must report to the Governor and the appropriate committees of the Legislature on the estimated amount of state-purchased electricity consumed by plug-in electrical vehicles and the number of plug-in electric vehicles using state office locations.