STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1108-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2274

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2274, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to strengthen the State's electric vehicle charging requirements by:

(1) Requiring parking facilities with more than one hundred total parking spaces to provide electric vehicle supply equipment to:

(A) At least one parking space per one hundred parking spaces;

(B) Two parking spaces, beginning July 1, 2021, per one hundred parking spaces; and

(2) Authorizing the Director of Transportation to exempt a parking facility from the requirements if a licensed electrician determines that costs for compliance would be in excess of $200 multiplied by the total number of parking spaces within the parking facility;

(3) Authorizing the Director of Transportation to investigate and issue warnings and fines for violations of the requirements; and

(4) Establishing a working group to:

(A) Address the installation of electric vehicle supply equipment at apartments, condominiums, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations; and

(B) Report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2019.

Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Maui Electric Company, Ltd., Hawai‘i Electric Light Company, Inc., Building Owners and Managers Association of Hawaii, Blue Planet Foundation, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Associa, Community Associations Institute Hawaii Chapter, 350Hawaii.org, Pulama Lana‘i, and several individuals testified in support of this measure. Retail Merchants of Hawaii and Building Industry Association of Hawaii testified in opposition. Department of Transportation, Legislative Reference Bureau, Aloha Stadium Authority, Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Tesla, Inc., and Ulupono Initiative provided comments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2274, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair