HB 708 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Summary

Imposes insurance coverage as a prerequisite for the operation of electric bicycles in a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more. Establishes a regulatory framework for electric bicycle insurance. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB708 → HB708_HD1 · 6 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a committee markup version (HD1) with significant substantive changes to the insurance requirements. The most important change is that the insurance mandate now only applies to counties with a population of 500,000 or more, rather than statewide. Additionally, the definition of an electric bicycle was narrowed to only include Class 3 e-bikes, and the Class 3 definition was updated to require a speedometer.

Scope change

The bill's applicability was changed from statewide to only counties with a population of 500,000 or more.

SCOPE

Insurance requirements now only apply to counties with a population of 500,000 or more instead of statewide.

DEFINITION

The definition of 'electric bicycle' was changed to only include Class 3 e-bikes, removing Class 1 and Class 2 from the definition.

The definition of 'Class 3 electric bicycle' was updated to explicitly require a speedometer.

REQUIREMENT

New requirement added that Class 3 electric bicycles must be equipped with a speedometer.

ENFORCEMENT

Penalty fine amounts were left blank in the HD1 version, requiring further specification before enforcement.

TECHNICAL

Document format changed from standard bill text to committee markup format with metadata headers.

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Committee

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 202) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Evslin; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to TRN, JHA, CPC, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

14 primary · 0 co-sponsors