Category Archives: Motor Vehicle (HRS 249)

SB 1534 SD 2

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1534 SD 2

INTRODUCED BY: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Replaces the $50 annual vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles with a capped mileage-based road user fee for electric vehicles. Establishes the Hawaiʻi Highway Safety and Modernization Council effective 7/1/2023; provided that implementation of user fees take effect 1/1/2025. Continue reading SB 1534 SD 2

HB 1110 HD 2

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1110 HD 2

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes, beginning on 7/1/2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates the $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of paying a registration surcharge or a per-mile road usage charge until 2033. Requires motor vehicle registration applications to specify the type of fuel for which the vehicle is adapted. Requires certificates of inspection to state the odometer reading. Requires the department of transportation to plan for the deployment of a state mileage-based road user charge program by 2033 and submit a report to the legislature. Continue reading HB 1110 HD 2

SB 1534 SD 1

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1534 SD 1

INTRODUCED BY: Senate Committee on Transportation & Culture and the Arts

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Replaces the $50 annual vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles with a capped mileage-based road user fee for electric vehicles. Establishes the Hawaiʻi Highway Safety and Modernization Council effective 7/1/2023; provided that implementation of user fees take effect 1/1/2025. Continue reading SB 1534 SD 1

HB 1110 HD 1

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1110 HD 1

INTRODUCED BY:  House Committee on Transportation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:    Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes beginning on July 1, 2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of paying a registration surcharge or a per-mile road usage charge until 2033. Requires motor vehicle registration application to specify whether the type of fuel for which the vehicle is adapted is electricity. Requires certificates of inspection to state the odometer reading of vehicles. Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for the deployment of a state mileage based road user charge program by 2033 and submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2026. Defines electric vehicle. Defines alternative fuel vehicle. Makes an appropriation. Continue reading HB 1110 HD 1

SB 1534

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1534

INTRODUCED BY: LEE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Replaces the $50 annual vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles with a capped mileage-based road user fee for electric vehicles. Establishes the Hawaiʻi Highway Safety and Modernization Council effective 7/1/2023; provided that implementation of user fees take effect 1/1/2025. Continue reading SB 1534

SB 1046, HB 147

SUBJECT: MOTOR VEHICLE, Repeal military exemption and replace with exemption for veterans

BILL NUMBER:  SB 1046, HB 147

INTRODUCED BY: SB by SHIMABUKURO, AQUINO, CHANG; HB by PERRUSO, AMATO, ICHIYAMA, KAPELA, LOWEN, MARTEN, NAKASHIMA, ONISHI, TAM, Ganaden

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by removing the exemption for military reserves and other active duty military personnel and adding an exemption for certain veterans. Continue reading SB 1046, HB 147

HB 1110

SUBJECT: FUEL, MISCELLANEOUS, MOTOR VEHICLE, New Road Usage Charge for Electric Vehicles

BILL NUMBER:  HB 1110, SB 1408 [TRN-11]

INTRODUCED BY:  HB by SAIKI, SB by KOUCHI (Governor’s Package)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:    Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes beginning on July 1, 2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of paying a registration surcharge or a per-mile road usage charge until 2033. Requires motor vehicle registration application to specify whether the type of fuel for which the vehicle is adapted is electricity. Requires certificates of inspection to state the odometer reading of vehicles. Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for the deployment of a state mileage based road user charge program by 2033 and submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2026. Defines electric vehicle. Defines alternative fuel vehicle. Makes an appropriation. Continue reading HB 1110

SB 3121 HD 1

SUBJECT:  MOTOR VEHICLE, Increase Vehicle Registration Fee to Support Accessible Parking

BILL NUMBER:  SB 3121 HD 1

INTRODUCED BY: House Committee on Transportation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   Creates an accessible parking special account within the disability and communication access board special fund. Increases the state vehicle registration fee by $1, to be deposited into the accessible parking special account. Requires all costs associated with the statewide parking program for persons with disabilities to be appropriated from the accessible parking special account beginning July 1, 2023. Continue reading SB 3121 HD 1

SB 3121 SD 2

SUBJECT:  MOTOR VEHICLE, Increase Vehicle Registration Fee to Support Accessible Parking

BILL NUMBER:  SB 3121 SD 2

INTRODUCED BY: Senate Committee on Ways & Means

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:   Creates an accessible parking special account within the disability and communication access board special fund. Increases the state vehicle registration fee by $1, to be deposited into the accessible parking special account. Requires all costs associated with the statewide parking program for persons with disabilities to be appropriated from the accessible parking special account beginning July 1, 2023. Continue reading SB 3121 SD 2