Bill Text: HI SB2174 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Air Pollution; Motor Vehicles
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-23 - Re-Referred to ENE/TIA/PSM, WAM. [SB2174 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-SB2174-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that greenhouse gas emissions have a profound negative impact on human health. Prolonged exposure to hydrocarbons contributes to asthma, liver disease, lung disease, and cancer. Carbon monoxide reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen, and overexposure could be fatal. Additionally, particulate matter found in emissions causes negative health effects, including respiratory disease and cancer.
Poor air quality can affect respiratory and cardiovascular health and lead to illness and death. The California Air Resources Board staff estimates that diesel particulate matter contributed to three thousand five hundred deaths in California in 2005. It is estimated in California that on the average, two hundred sixty thousand premature deaths per year are associated with short-term exposure to ozone pollution. Among children under the age of eighteen years, there are more than ninety-three thousand hospital admissions on average for respiratory disease and more than thirty-five thousand emergency room visits for asthma. Another study finds that attaining federal eight-hour ozone standards for fine particulate matter would avoid almost one thousand six hundred new cases of adult-onset chronic bronchitis in the south coast air basin and over three hundred sixty cases annually in the San Joaquin Valley.
The legislature further finds that more than fifteen states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, and have adopted or announced intentions to adopt the California Environmental Protection Agency standards for greenhouse gas emissions.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department of health to adopt motor vehicle emission rules similar to California.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342B- Greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. (a) No later than June 30, 2015, the department shall adopt vehicular smoke emission rules pursuant to chapter 91 to achieve the maximum feasible and cost-effective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. To the greatest extent possible, the department shall adopt rules equivalent to the most recent California administrative regulations for motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission, as adopted by the California Air Resources Board; provided that the rules shall include the advanced clean car regulations adopted by the California Air Resources Board to apply to cars and light trucks for model years beginning 2017 and thereafter.
(b) The department shall seek appropriate waivers from federal laws and regulations to implement subsection (a)."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Air Pollution; Motor Vehicles
Description:
Requires the department of health to adopt rules, no later than 6/30/2015, to establish emissions standards for motor vehicles that achieve the maximum feasible and cost-effective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and to the greatest extent possible are equivalent to California's most recent administrative regulations for motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
