CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE REP. NO. 167
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: S.B. No. 1024
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sirs:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1024, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Establish long-term goals for zero-emissions transportation in Hawaii to reduce and eliminate transportation emissions;
(2) Establish the Clean Ground Transportation Working Group and the Interisland Clean Transportation Working Group; and
(3) Require reports to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission and the Legislature.
Your Committee on Conference finds that transportation accounts for the majority of the State's greenhouse gas emissions. As the growing popularity of zero emissions vehicles gains traction, identifying and planning for transportation infrastructure utilizing electricity or zero emissions may provide increased support for the State's population. This measure brings expert stakeholders together and allows each department to adopt rules to achieve zero emissions transportation, and positions the State to be a leader in innovative zero emissions transportation infrastructure and technology.
Your Committee on
Conference has amended this measure by:
(1) Establishing a new section, rather than amending existing statutory language, that creates zero emissions transportation goals that include a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and achievement of zero emissions across all transportation modes in the State, including ground transportation and sea and air interisland transportation;
(2) Placing certain requirements of the Department of Transportation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, and Hawaii State Energy Office in the Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than session law;
(3) Clarifying
that the Clean Ground Transportation Working Group shall also include the Zero
Emissions Clean Economy Target in the Working Group's scope;
(4) Requiring
the Clean Ground Transportation Working Group to submit annual interim reports
to the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission from 2024 to 2034,
rather than from 2024 to 2026;
(5) Requiring
the Clean Ground Transportation Working Group to submit a final report to the
Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular
Session of 2035;
(6) Dissolving
the Clean Ground Transportation Working Group on January 1, 2035;
(7) Requiring
the Interisland Clean Transportation Working Group to identify not less than
fifteen possible transportation hubs throughout the State with at least two in
each county to support innovative point-to-point or island-to-island
transportation options;
(8) Clarifying
that the Interisland Clean Transportation Working Group shall also include the
Zero Emissions Clean Economy Target in the Working Group's scope;
(9) Requiring
the Interisland Clean Transportation Working Group to submit annual interim
reports to the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission from 2024 to
2034, rather than from 2024 to 2026;
(10) Requiring the Interisland Clean Transportation
Working Group to submit a final report to the Legislature no later than twenty
days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2035;
(11) Dissolving the Interisland Clean
Transportation Working Group on January 1, 2035;
(12) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2023; and
(13) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1024, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1024, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ CHRIS TODD Co-Chair |
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____________________________ CHRIS LEE Chair |
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____________________________ NICOLE E. LOWEN Co-Chair |
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____________________________ MIKE GABBARD Co-Chair |
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____________________________ DARIUS KILA Co-Chair |
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____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE Co-Chair |
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