Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1344 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles by extending the incentive program, including use of the high occupancy vehicle traffic lane, and the waiver of certain fees, from its original five years to ten years.

The Hawaii Electric Vehicle Demonstration Project, Hawaiian Electric Company and its subsidiaries, Hawaii Electric Light Company and Maui Electric Company, and the Electric Vehicle Association of Hawaii testified in support of the bill. The Environmental Center of the University of Hawaii testified in support of the intent of the bill.

Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this measure for purposes of style, consistency, and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1344, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1344, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.