SB2335 SSCR2173

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.2173

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2335

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2335 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) display a slow moving vehicle emblem.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that NEVs are restricted to roads with a speed limit of no greater than 35 miles per hour and that most NEVs are capable of traveling at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. Your Committee further finds that slow moving vehicle emblems are designed primarily for use on heavy machinery that is being driven on roads with a speed limit of greater than 35 miles per hour.

Therefore, your Committee supports this measure, which will remove an onerous and unnecessary requirement for NEV drivers.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2335 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations,

		____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair