STAND. COM. REP. NO.  328

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 687

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 687 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation (Department) to study and develop a training program relating to emergency situations involving electric vehicles.  Specifically, this measure, among other things:

 

(1)  Appropriates $50,000 to the Department to study and develop a training program regarding the potential risks involved and precautionary measures needed for emergency personnel who are called to emergency situations involving an electric vehicle; and

 

(2)  Requires the Department to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including proposed legislation, to the Legislature.

 

     The State Fire Council, the Fire Chief of the Kauai Fire Department, and the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association supported this measure.  The Department of Transportation opposed this measure.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 687 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair