STAND. COM. REP. NO. 272

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1082

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1082 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PARKING SPACES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require all parking lots with public paid parking spaces in the State to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card;

(2) Require all parking meters that collect parking fees for any public paid parking space in the State to be maintained in working order to accept payment by cash, credit card, and debit card beginning January 1, 2025;

(3) Require counties to adopt ordinances to enforce these requirements, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply; and

(4) Define "motor vehicle", "public parking space", and "parking meter".

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and two individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committees find that as the world transitions to digital forms of payment, more people utilize credit or debit cards to make daily purchases. However, certain parking meters across the State continue to collect cash or coins only, creating a cumbersome experience for residents and visitors who primarily utilize credit or debit cards and mobile applications. Implementing credit or debit card payment parking meters for all paid public parking spaces at parking lots may alleviate issues for residents and visitors and expand access at public parking meters across the State.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting language that would have required the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce parking meter payments by credit and debit card;

(2) Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services, City and County of Honolulu, County of Maui, County of Kauai, and County of Hawaii to submit annual reports to the Legislature on their progress to implement paid parking meters accepting credit and debit card payments; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1082, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair