STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1288-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2746

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2746, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to continue to incentivize the use of electric vehicles and make the existing laws pertaining to electric vehicles more readily accessible to the general public by generally codifying the incentives for registration, licensing, parking, and the operation of electric vehicles which were established under Act 290, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997.

The Department of Accounting and General Services; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.  Many concerned individuals opposed this measure.  The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Restoring the parking fee exemption for electric vehicles parked at an electric vehicle charging station;

     (2)  Making the bill effective upon its approval; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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 S.B. No. 2746, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2746, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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DENNY COFFMAN, Chair