STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1024-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1829

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1829, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the design of all new state building construction where parking is to be included to provide that at least twenty-five percent of parking stalls be electric vehicle charger-ready;

(2) Require the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a survey and identify certain high-priority state facilities that include parking to be retrofitted to include electric vehicle charging infrastructure;

(3) Establish a goal of the State to retrofit state facilities to be electric vehicle charger-ready; and

(4) Appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to assess the costs of, and install, retrofits and electric vehicle charging systems at high-priority state facilities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Energy Office; Climate Protectors Hawaiʻi; 350Hawaii.org; Blue Planet Foundation; Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action; Alliance for Automotive Innovation; Greenpeace Hawaii; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization; Ulupono Initiative; Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association; Hawaiian Electric; Kauai Climate Action Coalition; Carbon Cashback Hawaiʻi; and one individual.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1829, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair