Sponsored by:
Senator VIN GOPAL
District 11 (Monmouth)
Senator TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Greenstein
SYNOPSIS
Requires State agencies in awarding contracts for purchase of items that require power source to consider items powered by fuel cells.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring State agencies that award contracts for the purchase of items that require a power source to consider items powered by fuel cells and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A State agency that seeks to purchase any item requiring the use of a power source, including but not limited to motor vehicles, material and cargo-handling equipment such as forklifts, harbor craft, generators, power systems, portable floodlights, microgrids, and telecommunications equipment, shall include in the request for proposals provisions that allow for the consideration of items that are powered by fuel cells.
As used in this section:
“fuel cell” means a device or system that is designed to provide heating or cooling, or electrical or mechanical power, by converting the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidant into electricity through a non-combustive electrochemical process; and
"State agency" means any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by such department and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency which is authorized by law to award contracts.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that a State agency that seeks to purchase an item requiring the use of a power source, including but not limited to motor vehicles, material and cargo-handling equipment such as forklifts, harbor craft, generators, power systems, portable floodlights, microgrids, and telecommunications equipment, must include in the request for proposals provisions that allow for the consideration of items that are powered by fuel cells. The bill would apply to principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by such department and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency which is authorized by law to award contracts.