STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1375
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: S.B. No. 1082
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 Committee on Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PARKING SPACES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Effective January 1, 2025, require all state- and privately-owned parking lots in the State that contain public paid parking spaces to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card;
(2) Require all state- and privately-owned parking meters in the State that collect parking fees for any public paid parking space to be maintained in working order to accept payment by credit card and debit card;
(3) Define motor vehicle, parking meter, and public parking space for these purposes; and
(4) Require the Department of Accounting and General Services and the counties to submit reports to the Legislature on the status of implementation of these requirements.
Your Committee finds that the Department of Accounting and General Services has already begun the conversion to allow for the acceptance of payment by credit card and debit card at eight of the twelve parking facilities on Oahu that the Department manages and is currently working on upgrading eight facilities on the neighbor islands. Your Committee further finds that options to pay by credit or debit card will offer greater convenience for much of the driving public.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Limiting the application of these requirements to state- and county-owned parking lots only;
(2) Allowing the State and counties to choose to stop accepting cash at any parking lot they own at their discretion;
(3) Clarifying that the annual reports to the Legislature on the status of implementation of these requirements shall cease once the requirements have been implemented; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Government Operations,
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____________________________ SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair |
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