STAND. COM. REP. NO. 446-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1714

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1714 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the parking fee exemption for electric vehicles parked in a non-metered parking stall by specifying that an electric vehicle shall be exempt from parking fees for no longer than twenty-four hours.

The Department of Transportation and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii supported this measure. Ulupono Initiative, Cuddle Party, and an individual opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by extending to June 30, 2024, the sunset date of Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which authorizes the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for the registration of and issuance of license plates for electric vehicles and exempts electric vehicles from parking fees and high occupancy vehicle lane restrictions.

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. 1714, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1714, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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CHRIS LEE, Chair