Report Title:

Petroleum Industry Reporting; Ethanol Content in Gasoline

Description:

Establishes new requirements for the blending of ethanol in gasoline. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

3170

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 486J-1 is amended by adding a new definition to be properly inserted and to read as follows:

""Ten per cent ethanol by volume" means a blend of gasoline and ethanol that has an ethanol content, exclusive of denaturants and permitted contaminants, that is not less than 9.2 per cent by volume and not more than 10.0 per cent by volume of the blend, as determined by an appropriate United States Environmental Protection Agency or American Society of Testing Material standard method of analysis of alcohol content in motor fuels."

SECTION 2. Section 486J-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) [The commissioner shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to require that gasoline sold in the State for use in motor vehicles contain ten per cent ethanol by volume. The amounts of gasoline sold in the State containing ten per cent ethanol shall be in accordance with rules as the commissioner may deem appropriate.] Beginning January 1, 2006, eighty-five per cent of all gasoline sold by each distributor for use in motor vehicles in the State must contain ten per cent ethanol by volume. The [commissioner] director may authorize the sale of gasoline that does not meet these requirements as provided in subsection (d)."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.