Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF3428

Relating to transportation; setting targets for increasing the proportion of
flexible fuel vehicles; establishing the plug in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)
task force; establishing the Ford plant enhancement commission; requiring the
public utilities commission (PUC) to open a proceedings to investigate how
utilities can best develop the infrastructure to connect plug in hybrid
electric vehicles to the electrical grid; requiring the PUC to contract with a
firm selected by the commissioner of commerce for an independent study of PHEV
and utility economics; requiring a notice by the commissioner of administration
in state procurement policy bid documents of the intention of the state to begin
purchasing PHEVs as soon as commercially available; appropriating money to the
commissioner of commerce for a grant to the automotive engineering program at
Minnesota state university Mankato for the purpose of retrofitting a certain
number of flexible fuel vehicles to operate as PHEVs
(ra)