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                                  HOUSE BILL 1591

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Nealey, Rayburn, Grant, Jacobsen, Anderson, May, Hochstatter, Bray, Chandler, R. Fisher, Ferguson, McLean, Fuhrman, Prince, Vance, Betrozoff, R. King, Bowman, Paris, Inslee, Scott, Horn, Moyer, Broback, Wynne and Casada.

Read first time February 4, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.Requiring that gasohol be dispensed at state facilities.

     AN ACT Relating to dispensing gasohol at state facilities; and amending RCW 43.41.130.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 43.41.130 and 1982 c 163 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:

     The director of financial management, after consultation with other interested or affected state agencies, shall establish overall policies governing the acquisition, operation, management, maintenance, repair, and disposal of, all passenger motor vehicles owned or operated by any state agency.  Such policies shall include but not be limited to a definition of what constitutes authorized use of a state owned or controlled passenger motor vehicle and other motor vehicles on official state business.  The definition shall include, but not be limited to, the use of state-owned motor vehicles for commuter ride sharing so long as the entire capital depreciation and operational expense of the commuter ride-sharing arrangement is paid by the commuters.  Any use other than such defined use shall be considered as personal use.

     Such policies shall also include the widest possible use of gasohol and cost-effective alternative fuels in all motor vehicles owned or operated by any state agency. Gasohol shall be a passenger vehicle fuel dispensed at those state facilities which dispense passenger vehicle fuel.  A state facility which dispenses such fuel is exempted from this requirement only if:  Gasohol is not distributed to commercial enterprises in the vicinity of the facility by a wholesale distributor; or the facility dispenses only propane or a similar fuel for passenger vehicles. As used in this section, "gasohol" means motor vehicle fuel which contains more than nine and one-half percent ((alcohol)) ethanol by volume.