STAND. COM. REP. NO.  902-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2485

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2485, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE PARKING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify requirements pertaining to parking spaces for electric vehicles.  Specifically, this measure, among other things, sets the minimum number of electric vehicle-designated parking spaces required in places of public accommodation with at least one hundred parking spaces and repeals mandatory designated space increases that would have taken effect once registered electric vehicles in the State numbered at least five thousand.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; City and County of Honolulu, Department of Design and Construction; Outrigger Hotels Hawaii; and an individual supported this measure.  The Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter opposed this measure.  The Disability and Communication Access Board and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that an electric vehicle means a "neighborhood electric vehicle" as defined in the Hawaii Highway Safety Act or a vehicle that has at least four wheels and draws propulsion energy from a rechargeable battery with at least four kilowatt hours of energy storage capacity; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2485, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2485, H.D. 3.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair