STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1521

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 968

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 968, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require:

(1) The Department of Accounting and General Services to enable parking stall sharing among public employees, ensure new parking stalls for public employees can accommodate electric vehicle charging stations, and provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees; and

(2) All new public housing developments to have bicycle storage lockers and parking stalls that can accommodate electric vehicle charging stations.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Chamber of Sustainable Commerce, Hawai‘i Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation Commission, 350Hawaii.org, Big Island Electric Vehicle Association, Ulupono Initiative, Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association, Hawaii Bicycling League, Climate Protectors Hawai‘i, Kauai Climate Action Coalition, and numerous individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and Hawai‘i State Energy Office.

Your Committees find that as the use of electric vehicles increases in the State, there may be a need for increased infrastructure for charging these electric vehicles at state employee parking facilities, as many of these facilities currently do not have the capacity. Your Committees further find that more information is needed to determine the actual demand for electric vehicle charging stations, as well as the feasibility and costs of installing electric vehicle charging stations at state employee parking facilities.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Removing the requirement that:

(A) The Department of Accounting and General Services ensure new parking stalls for public employees can accommodate electric vehicle charging stations and provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees; and

(B) All new public housing developments to have bicycle storage lockers and parking stalls that can accommodate electric vehicle charging stations;

(2) Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to conduct a study to determine the demand for, and feasibility and costs of, installing electric vehicle charging stations at newly constructed state employee and public parking facilities and retrofitting existing state employee and public parking facilities to accommodate electric vehicle charging stations;

(3) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Labor & Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 968, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 968, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Labor & Government Operations,

____________________________ SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair

____________________________ CHRIS TODD, Chair