STAND. COM. REP. NO.  209-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2330

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2330 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to promote the use of electric vehicles by exempting those vehicles from parking fees, high occupancy vehicle lane restrictions and other traffic control measures, and motor vehicle registration and licensing fees.

     A member of the Hawaii County Council, the Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Maui Electric Company, Ltd., and Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., testified in support of this bill.  The High Technology Development Corporation supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Requiring that the incentives provided in this measure be reviewed every five years;

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature every five years on the effectiveness of these incentives beginning with the Regular Session of 2013;

     (3)  Excluding "neighborhood electric vehicles" from the provisions of this measure;

     (4)  Removing the exemption for "other traffic control measures"; and

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2330, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Transportation.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair