HB1372 – Creates a study of cost and emissions tradeoffs in electrifying state vehicles. (Dead.)
Prime Sponsor – Representative Dye (R; 9th District; SE Washington) (Co-Sponsor Ybarra – R)
Current status – Referred to the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations. Still in committee by cutoff.
Next step would be – Dead bill.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Summary –
The bill would require the Department of Enterprise Services to publish an analysis of the cost asnd life-cycle greenhouse gas emission tradeoffs associated with state vehicle fleet purchases of electric vehicles every two years, beginning in 2024. It would include the purchase price of each type of electric vehicle added to fleet during the preceding two years, as compared to comparably sized internal combustion vehicles in the fleet; the average maintenance and fueling costs per mile for each type of vehicle; the purchase date and total number of miles driven for each type of vehicle and each vehicle during the period; an estimate of “the direct and indirect” greenhouse gas emissions associated with the use of each type of vehicle during the periods, considering at least the number of miles they were driven during the period, the direct emissions from fuel use, the life cycle emissions of the embodied carbon in the vehicle’s components, and reasonable estimates of the vehicle’s useful life.

To help track whether the total cost to operate the fleet is declining or increasing as a result of electrification, the study’s to include a best estimate of the State’s cost for owning and operating the fleet for each of the preceding two years, including the total cost for the ownership and operation of all the vehicles, and specific ownership and operation totals for vehicles in the fleet that are fully electric, have internal combustion engines, or use another fuel.