Bill Text: HI SB647 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Health; Motor Vehicle Emission Standards
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-30 - The committee(s) on ENE deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 01-31-13 2:45PM in conference room 225. [SB647 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB647-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that greenhouse gas emissions have been shown to have a profound negative impact on human health. Prolonged exposure to hydrocarbons contributes to asthma, liver disease, lung disease, and cancer. Carbon monoxide reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen, and overexposure may be fatal. Particulate matter in emissions causes negative health effects, including but not limited to respiratory disease and cancer.
Poor air quality can affect respiratory and cardiovascular health and lead to illness and even death. The California Air Resources Board staff estimates that diesel particulate matter contributed to 3,500 deaths in 2005 and that there is a ten per cent increase in the risk of premature death for each ten microgram per meter increase in fine particulate matter. The national ambient air quality standard for fine particulate matter is thirty-five micrograms per meter.
It is estimated that in California, on average, 260,000 premature deaths per year are associated with short-term exposure to ozone pollution and, among children under age eighteen, an average of just over 93,000 hospital admissions for respiratory disease and more than 35,000 emergency room visits for asthma. Another study finds that attaining the federal eight-hour ozone standard for fine particulate matter would avoid almost 1,600 new cases of adult-onset chronic bronchitis in the South Coast Air Basin and over 360 cases annually in the San Joaquin Valley.
More than fifteen states have adopted or have announced their intention to adopt the California environmental protection agency standards for greenhouse gas emissions, which are stricter guidelines than those currently in place by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Those states are: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. In addition to this specific action to adopt California standards, at least twenty-four other states are taking action to adopt stricter vehicle emission standards.
The purpose of this Act is to enact legislation in Hawaii that is similar to the California emission standards for cars and light duty trucks.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342B- Emission standards for motor vehicles. Beginning January 1, 2015, the emission standards for motor vehicles, as defined in section 291C-1, shall be the same as low emission vehicle standards adopted by the California Environmental Protection Agency in January 2012 for model years 2015-2025, as contained in table 6 for low-emission vehicle III (LEV III) emission standards, as amended; table 7 for low-emission vehicle III particulate matter emission standards, as amended; and table 8 for phase-in schedule for LEV III particulate matter standards, as amended."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Health; Motor Vehicle Emission Standards
Description:
Adopts the California environmental protection agency emission standards for low-emission vehicle standards beginning January 1, 2015.
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