Bill Text: HI HB236 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Low-speed Electric Bicycles.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - Referred to TRN, JHA, referral sheet 1 [HB236 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2025-HB236-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

236

THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to low-speed electric bicycles.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 291C-143.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§291C-143.5[]]  Low-speed electric bicycles; operator age.  No person under the age of [fifteen] sixteen shall operate a low-speed electric bicycle as defined under title 15 United States Code section 2085."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Low-Speed Electric Bicycles; Minimum Age; Increase

 

Description:

Increases the minimum age to operate a low-speed electric bicycle from fifteen to sixteen years of age.

 

 

 

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