Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2050 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the definition of "neighborhood electric vehicle" regarding the number of passengers and gross vehicle weight.

This measure would:

(1) Delete the reference to four or fewer passengers;

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Department of Customer Services.

The term "neighborhood electric vehicle," which is a vehicle designed to be operated at not more than twenty-five miles per hour, is used in section 286-41(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, in connection with a special requirement for registration of those vehicles. A display of operational restrictions in clear view of the driver must be permanently attached to or printed on the vehicles.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to conform the terminology to federal regulations of the National Highway Traffic Administration.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2050 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.