Bill Text: HI HB1467 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicle Efficiency; Tire Pressure Gauges; Tire Inflation Devices

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1467 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1467-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  300

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1467

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1467 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERLY INFLATED TIRES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to spur an increase in fuel efficiency of Hawaii's motor vehicles by requiring retail service stations to provide free tire pressure gauges and operational tire inflation devices to enable motorists to maintain properly inflated tires.

 

     The Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, Blue Planet Foundation, and Hawaii Energy Policy Forum testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and Legislative Information Services of Hawaii offered comments.

 

     Properly inflated tires give vehicles better mileage per gallon of gasoline consumed.  Your Committee believes that market forces will prompt retail service stations to provide, free-of-charge, tire pressure gauges to their customers.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting from the purpose section of the bill, the reference to free tire pressure gauges and operational tire inflation devices to be provided by retail service stations. 

 

     Your Committee has also amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Correcting an erroneous reference to section 486-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with section 486H-1; and

 

     (2)  Making other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1467, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1467, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

		____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair