STAND. COM. REP. NO.  483-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2799

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2799 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize a private entity that governs a multi-family residential dwelling or townhouse to assign specific stalls for placement of electric vehicle charging stations when parking stalls under the private entity's control are not assigned.

Three individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter, Blue Planet Foundation, and an individual opposed this measure.

     Your Committees note that condominium associations did not give testimony on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the provision requiring a person to obtain prior approval from the private entity before placing an electric vehicle charging system on or near the parking stall of any multi-family residential dwelling or townhouse unit owned by that person; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2799, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2799, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Housing,

____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair

____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair