Title
BILL 126 (2024), ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 10.79, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE (DRIP-12)
Description
The Committee is in receipt of the following:
1. Bill 126 (2024), entitled “A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 10.79, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE.” Bill 126’s purpose is to facilitate the use of electric vehicles, including the enforcement of Section 291-71, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes.
2. Correspondence dated September 12, 2024, from the Committee Chair to the Department of the Corporation Counsel, transmitting a proposed CD1 version of Bill 126 (2024), entitled “A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 10.79, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE.” The proposed CD1 version of Bill 126 incorporates amendments to:
a. Specify that only electric vehicles that are plugged in with the intent to charge may be parked in an electric vehicle parking space.
b. Specify that in addition to all new places of public accommodation, all public parking lots where 50 percent or more of the parking area is renovated or significantly changed are also subject to certain electric vehicle charger installation and parking space requirements.
c. Remove the charging system requirements for existing parking lots.
d. Require that at least five percent but no fewer than one of each type of parking spaces designated for electric vehicles must be an accessible stall.
e. Remove the exemption for parking lots with insufficient electric supply.
f. Insert a section relating to penalties.
g. Incorporate nonsubstantive revisions.
Status
The Committee may consider whether to recommend passage of the proposed CD1 version of Bill 126 (2024) on first reading, with or without further revisions. The Committee may also consider the filing of Bill 126 (2024) and other related action.