Bill Text: HI SB2358 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes; Electric Vehicles
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-08 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2358 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2358-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INITIATIVES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Hawaii residents should be encouraged to continue purchasing electric vehicles to reduce global warming pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. An effective incentive would be to allow electric vehicles capable of highway speeds to use high occupancy vehicle lanes regardless of whether the vehicle contains the minimum number of passengers to lawfully use the high occupancy vehicle lane.
The purpose of this Act is to allow electric vehicles capable of highway speeds to use high occupancy vehicle lanes without regard to the number of occupants in each vehicle.
SECTION 2. Section 291C-221, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Electric vehicle" means the same as section 291-71."
SECTION 3. Section 291C-221, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "high occupancy vehicle lane" to read as follows:
""High occupancy vehicle lane"
means a designated lane of a laned roadway where the use of the designated lane
is restricted to school buses, vehicles carrying at least the minimum number of
persons designated by the director of transportation on official signs and
other official traffic-control devices, [and to] electric vehicles
capable of driving at least fifty-five miles per hour without regard to the
number of occupants, and other vehicles as provided by rules adopted in
accordance with chapter 91, or by county ordinance."
SECTION 4. Section 291C-222, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending subsection (a) to read:
"(a) The director of transportation by
rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91, and the counties by ordinance, may
designate high occupancy vehicle lanes [as] to roadways under their
respective jurisdictions. The director of transportation, by rules adopted
in accordance with chapter 91, shall develop the means to identify electric
vehicles capable of driving at least fifty-five miles per hour, including but
not limited to the use of decals."
2. By amending subsection (d) to read:
"(d) A motorcycle and an electric vehicle capable of driving at least fifty-five miles per hour may use any high occupancy vehicle lane, regardless of the number of occupants."
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes; Electric Vehicles
Description:
Provides that high occupancy vehicle lanes may be used by electric vehicles capable of driving at least fifty-five miles per hour, regardless of the number of occupants. (SD1)
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