Bill Text: HI HB2131 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Gasoline Dealers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC/JUD with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HB2131 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2131-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  209-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2131

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2131 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GASOLINE DEALERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require retail service stations to provide customers that purchase motor vehicle fuel with free access to potable water.

 

     Legislative Information Services of Hawaii and Western States Petroleum Association opposed this bill.  A concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committee notes a recommendation that the law should apply to all retail facilities to avoid market distortions.  "Retail station," as used in this bill, is defined in Chapter 486H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and includes a company retail station, a dealer retail station, and an independent retail station, the three types of retail gasoline dealers regulated under the chapter.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2131, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2131, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair