Bill Text: HI HB2580 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2580 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2580-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2580
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to transportation.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part IV to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§286-     Speed limiting devices.  (a)  No person shall:

     (1)  Remove a manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device from an electric bicycle; or

     (2)  Operate an electric bicycle, in which the manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device was removed from the electric bicycle, on a public highway.

     (b)  For purposes of this section:

     "Electric bicycle" means a two- or three-wheeled cycle with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts that provides propulsion assistance.  "Electric bicycle" includes a low-speed electric bicycle, as defined in title 15 United States Code section 2085.

     "Speed limiting device" means a device or function in an electric bicycle capable of limiting the maximum motive power-controlled speed at which the electric bicycle may operate."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Transportation; Electric Bicycles; Speed Limiting Devices

 

Description:

Prohibits the removal of a manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device from an electric bicycle.  Prohibits the operation of an electric bicycle, in which the manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device was removed from the electric bicycle, on a public highway.

 

 

 

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