STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2425

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2196

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2196 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require cooperative housing corporations, homeowners associations, planned community associations, and condominium associations to:

(1) Develop plans to integrate electric vehicle charging stations onto their properties by January 1, 2030; and

(2) Make funds from their overall reserves available to integrate electric vehicle charging stations onto the properties that they manage.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawai‘i State Energy Office, Hawaiian Electric Company, Community Associations Institute, Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association, KauaiEV, Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21, and three individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii, Kipuka at Hoakalei Association of Unit Owners, and one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Council of Community Associations and Associa.

Your Committees find that with the growing popularity of electric and other alternative fuel vehicles, including hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the installation of available zero-emissions fueling stations is essential to increasing the use of these vehicles and decreasing the State's reliance on fossil fuels. Your Committees recognize that most of the State's existing multi-dwelling units might have very difficult challenges to retrofit their common areas, parking garages, and parking stalls to comply with this measure, and notes that there are existing incentives to install publicly available electric vehicle charging stations.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Limiting the requirement to plan the installation of electric charging stations to residential properties that are constructed after January 1, 2023; and

(2) Amending the description of charging stations to accommodate new and developing technologies in alternative fuels and other zero-emissions vehicles.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2196, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2196, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Transportation,

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair