Bill Text: HI HB101 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Aviation Fuel Tax Credit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-23 - (H) Re-referred to TRN, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 71 [HB101 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB101-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

101

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO TRANsportation.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 291C-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "bicycle" to read as follows:

     ""Bicycle" means [every]:

     (1)  A vehicle [propelled solely by human power] upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels, and including any vehicle generally recognized as a bicycle though equipped with two front or two rear wheels except a toy bicycle[.]; or

     (2)  A vehicle upon which any person may ride that has two tandem wheels, including any vehicle generally recognized as a bicycle even if equipped with two front or two rear wheels and an electric motor that produces less than one and one-half gross brake horsepower and is capable of propelling the vehicle at a maximum speed of not more than twenty-five miles per hour on level ground;

provided that only bicycles meeting the following general specifications shall be allowed to be transported on buses used in public transportation systems:  wheel bases not longer than forty-four inches; tires that are not more than 2.3 inches wide; wheel diameters of twenty inches or larger; and a total weight of not more than fifty-five pounds."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Transportation; Electric Bicycle; Bicycle

 

Description:

Amends the definition of "bicycle" to include a bicycle powered by an electric motor.

 

 

 

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