Bill Text: HI SB2747 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electric Vehicles
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-27 - (S) Act 089, 4/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1190). [SB2747 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2747-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2083
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2747
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2747 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE PARKING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to simplify the requirements regarding parking spaces for electric vehicles, requiring places of public accommodation with at least one hundred parking spaces available for use by the general public to have at least one parking space near the building entrance designated exclusively for electric vehicles, and to be equipped with an electric vehicle charging system by July 1, 2012.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Maui County Office of Economic Development; Retail Merchants of Hawaii; Blue Planet Foundation; Better Place, Inc.; Outrigger Enterprises Group; and one individual. Comments were received from the Disability and Communication Access Board and the Sierra Club Hawai‘i Chapter.
Your Committees find that appropriate incentives and requirements for electric vehicle infrastructure will play an integral role in Hawaii's clean energy future. Your Committees further find that this measure will address the frequent requests for interpretation of existing law that have been made by facility owners, electric vehicle industry personnel, and members of the public regarding the parking space requirements.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying the definition of electric vehicle to reduce the required battery energy storage capacity from at least five to at least 4.4 kilowatt hours, in order to expand the number of qualifying electric vehicles;
(2) Requiring owners or managers of places of public accommodation with at least one hundred parking spaces available for use by the general public to designate at least one percent of parking spaces or up to five parking spaces, whichever is lesser, exclusively for electric vehicles by July 1, 2012, with certain conditions;
(3) Deleting the authorization for an owner of multiple parking facilities to designate fewer parking stalls under certain conditions; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2747, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2747, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Energy and Environment,
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____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair |
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____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair |
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