Report Title:

Fuel

Description:

Requires a refiner of gasoline to make available gasoline that does not contain ethanol.  Enacts certain conditions.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	3317
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to fuel.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 486H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§486H-A Provision of gasoline not containing ethanol.

(a) Each refiner, as that term is defined in section 486J-1, shall make available to its company-operated stations, company-owned stations, or retailer who purchases gasoline from the refiner, whether through a jobber, directly from the refiner, or otherwise, gasoline that does not contain the ethanol content required by section 486J-10, subject to the following conditions:

(1) gasoline that does not contain the ethanol content required by section 486J-10 shall be distributed to at least one of the above- referenced type of stations in an area corresponding to a representative district;

(2) in the case of a representative district that spans different islands, gasoline that does not contain the ethanol content required by section 486J-10 shall be distributed to at least one of the above-referenced type of stations on each of the islands within the representative district; and

(3) the station cannot be one that provides non- ethanol gasoline as of the publication of the report required by Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2009.

INTRODUCED BY:

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