Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2452 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage the use of electric vehicles by continuing to exempt them from various requirements applicable to conventional, internal combustion engine-powered vehicles until June 30, 2005.

The High Technology Development Corporation, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, and Maui Electric Company testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct drafting errors.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2452, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2452, H.D. 1.