Bill Text: HI SB2927 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation; Green Vehicles

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to EEP/TRN, FIN, referral sheet 35 [SB2927 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2927-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2493

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2927

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2927 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INITIATIVES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the designated parking spaces for electric vehicles to include green vehicles, and apply the penalties established for the misuse of electric vehicle parking to green vehicles.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one county agency.  One state agency and one organization submitted testimony in opposition.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that reducing the number of vehicles on Hawaii's roads, or replacing existing vehicles with electric vehicles or high-performance hybrid vehicles is imperative to meeting the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative's goal of seventy per cent clean, renewable energy by 2030.  This measure will provide further incentive for the purchase of hybrid vehicles by providing designated parking spaces in large parking facilities, while providing continued encouragement for the development of the necessary infrastructure to support an increased number of electric vehicles.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adopting the recommendations of the City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to:

 

     (1)  Require that any public, private, and government parking facility, including parking lots, with more than ninety-nine parking spaces and fewer than one thousand spaces designate one per cent of the spaces for electric vehicles by December 31, 2012;

 

     (2)  Require that any public, private, and government parking facility, including parking lots, with one thousand or more spaces designate one per cent of the spaces for green vehicles, including electric vehicles, by December 31, 2012;

 

     (3)  Require that any public, private, and government parking facility, including parking lots, with more than ninety-nine spaces equip at least one electric vehicle space with an electric vehicle charging unit and be located near the building entrance;

 

     (4)  Define green vehicle to include electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles with a fuel economy rating of thirty-five miles per gallon or higher for city driving; and

 

     (5)  Delay the authorization to issue fines to enforce electric and green vehicle parking from July 1, 2013 to January 1, 2014.

 

     Your Committees have also amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2927, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2927, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair