Bill Text: HI SB2112 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Electric Vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-22 - Referred to TRE/CPH, WAM. [SB2112 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2112-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, established a working group to examine issues regarding requests made for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at apartments, condominiums, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations. The working group found that there is no uniform process for installing electric vehicle charging stations in existing multiple unit dwellings and that each multiple unit dwelling faces unique challenges when confronted with the installation process. As a result, flexibility is required to address the challenges and develop solutions relating to installing electric vehicle charging stations in multiple unit dwellings.
The working group further found that a significant impediment to the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in many multiple unit dwellings is the substantial costs associated with the installation and upgrade of electric power infrastructure as many multiple unit dwellings do not presently have the electric power infrastructure required for electric vehicle charging stations. The working group found that state assistance is necessary to support the development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and recommended the use of revenues generated from the public benefits fee as a viable source of funding for the installation and upgrade of electric power infrastructure to facilitate the use of electric vehicles.
The legislature finds that increasing the number of electric vehicles in Hawaii will help the State reach its clean energy initiatives and renewable energy portfolio standards goal of one hundred per cent renewable by 2045. The legislature further finds that the lack of electric vehicle charging stations in the State constitutes a significant barrier to the public's use of electric vehicles. The legislature believes that increasing the number of electric vehicle charging stations in the State, including home- and work-based charging stations, will encourage more consumers to purchase electric vehicles.
The purpose of this Act is to authorize the use of the public benefits fee revenues for the installation and upgrade of electric power infrastructure to facilitate the use of electric vehicles by increasing the number of available electric vehicle charging stations, including home- and work-based charging stations.
The legislature intends that:
(1) In implementing this Act, the public benefits fee administrator be provided with flexibility in issuing moneys for infrastructure installation and upgrades for electric vehicle use as each installation may pose unique challenges;
(2) Private funds be used in conjunction with the public benefits fee for any electric power infrastructure installation or upgrade to facilitate the use of electric vehicles, and that the administrator determine, based on a case-by-case analysis, the amount of private funds required to be contributed before fee revenues may be expended for these purposes; and
(3) This Act be implemented without an increase in the current rate of the public benefits fee.
SECTION 2. Section 269-121, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b)
The public benefits fee shall be used to [support]:
(1) Support
clean energy technology, demand response technology, and energy use reduction,
and demand-side management infrastructure, programs, and services[,];
and
(2) Install
and upgrade electric power infrastructure to facilitate the use of electric
vehicles; provided that the fee shall not be used for this purpose unless the
public benefits fee administrator determines in each case that sufficient
private moneys will be contributed to support the installation and upgrade of
electric power infrastructure;
subject
to the review and approval of the public utilities commission. [These moneys] The public benefits
administrator may establish procedures, which shall not be subject to chapter
91, for the administration of public benefits fee programs established under
paragraph (2). Moneys from the public
benefits fee shall not be available to meet any current or past general
obligations of the State; provided that the State may participate in any clean
energy technology, demand response technology, or energy use reduction, and
demand-side management infrastructure, programs, and services on the same basis
as any other electric consumer.
For the purpose of this subsection[,
"clean energy technology"]:
"Clean energy technology" means any commercially available technology that enables the State to meet the renewable portfolio standards, established pursuant to section 269-92, or the energy-efficiency portfolio standards, established pursuant to section 269-96, and approved by the public utilities commission by rule or order.
"Electric vehicle" means a
vehicle, with four or more wheels, that draws propulsion energy from a battery
with at least four kilowatt hours of energy storage capacity that can be
recharged from an external source of electricity."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that on June 30, 2022, this Act shall be repealed and section 269-121(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted
in the form in which it read on the day prior to the effective date of this Act.
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Report Title:
Electric Vehicles; Public Benefits Fee
Description:
Authorizes the public benefits fee to be used to install and upgrade electric power infrastructure to facilitate the use of electric vehicles. Authorizes the public benefits fee administrator to establish procedures for the administration of public benefits fee programs that install or upgrade electric power infrastructure to facilitate the use of electric vehicles. Sunsets on 6/30/2022.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
