STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2549

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2747

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2747, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE PARKING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

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     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the existing electric vehicle parking space law to require owners and managers of public accommodations with at least one hundred parking stalls to designate some of those stalls as exclusively for electric vehicles and to install an electric vehicle charging station for at least one of those stalls.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; Retail Merchants of Hawaii; and one individual.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Design and Construction, City and County of Honolulu.  The Office of the Mayor, City and County of Honolulu, submitted written comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that promoting electric vehicles by requiring public accommodations to designate parking stalls as exclusively for electric vehicles is an integral part of Hawaii's clean energy future, including goals of reducing dependence on foreign fuel. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2747, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair