Bill Text: HI HB2291 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-26 - Referred to EEP, TRN, FIN, referral sheet 3 [HB2291 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2291-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2291
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to sustainable aviation fuel.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the Hawaii aviation and climate action summit held in December 2019 issued the following findings:

     (1)  Nearly one-third of the energy consumed in the State is for jet fuel, a higher proportion of energy consumption than for any other energy sector;

     (2)  More than one-third of the flights are to and from international destinations;

     (3)  International flights to and from Hawaii will start to come under the mandate established by the International Civil Aviation Organization's Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation to reduce aviation greenhouse gas emission to fifty per cent below 2005 levels by 2050;

     (4)  Transportation is the single largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in Hawaii;

     (5)  Renewable fuels must be part of a balanced portfolio and state action plan to effect certified greenhouse gas reduction in the near term, in addition to carbon offsets;

     (6)  Sustainable aviation fuels have been demonstrated at commercial scale in the continental United States and can be manufactured in six different American Society for Testing Manuals approved and Federal Aviation Administration certified ways, including from agricultural, animal, municipal, and construction wastes as well as purpose-grown crops and forest materials;

     (7)  The International Civil Aviation Organization's Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation mandate is a significant requirement on airlines serving Hawaii, for which the State should establish a task force and "flight plan" to map out public and private actions to cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions;

     (8)  The International Civil Aviation Organization's Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, United States' federal Renewable Fuel Standard, California's low-carbon fuel standard, and Oregon's clean fuels program are all market-based measures to quantify, incentivize, and monetize industry action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the transportation sector.  These measures are also flexible and effective ways to quantify and monetize the benefits of renewable fuels, carbon offsets, hydrogen and fuel cells, and transportation electrification based upon lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions performance; and

     (9)  Market-based policy measures more directly stimulate innovation, economic growth, and meaningful behavioral change than the state-level policies Hawaii has in place today, such as, the barrel tax, carbon tax, environmental permitting statements, environmental impact statements, and incentives which require annual appropriation.  The federal Renewable Fuel Standard, which Hawaii opted in to, has directly led to a reduction of greenhouse gas in the ground transportation sector by thousands of barrels per day.  California's low-carbon fuel standard has reduced greenhouse gas emissions in California by over fifty million metric tons through just the second quarter of 2019.  Seventy-five per cent of venture capital investment in clean transportation in the United States has been directed to California.  The low-carbon fuel standard has helped investors to justify $100,000,000 and $300,000,000 investments to build new renewable fuel production plants.  Low-carbon fuel standard-stimulated economic development already includes over three hundred companies and twenty thousand workers and has decreased greenhouse gas emissions per gross domestic product by forty per cent.

     The legislature further finds that the European Union recently created benchmarks requiring two per cent of jet fuel to be sustainable as of 2025, and seventy per cent by 2050.

     The legislature additionally finds that the development of sustainable aviation fuel capability in Hawaii demonstrates the State's continued leadership in global greenhouse gas emission reduction actions, and the potential to reduce dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuels, promote economic development, and overall improvement of environmental sustainability in Hawaii.

     The purpose of this Act is to establish a Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program within the state energy office to oversee the transition to sustainable aviation fuel at state airports.

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 196, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§196-     Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program.  (a)  There is established within the state energy office a Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program to oversee the transition to sustainable aviation fuels at state airports.

     (b)  The program shall work with the department of transportation and fuel suppliers in the State to establish a sustainable fuel portfolio standard that requires a certain per cent of aviation fuels used at each airport in the state to consist of sustainable aviation fuels as follows:

     (1)  From January 1, 2025, each year a minimum share of four per cent of sustainable aviation fuels;

     (2)  From January 1, 2030, each year a minimum share of twelve per cent of sustainable aviation fuels;

     (3)  From January 1, 2035, each year a minimum share of forty per cent of sustainable aviation fuels;

     (4)  From January 1, 2040, each year a minimum share of sixty-eight per cent of sustainable aviation fuels;

     (5)  From January 1, 2045, each year a minimum share of eighty-four per cent of sustainable aviation fuels; and

     (6)  From January 1, 2050, each year a minimum share of one hundred per cent of sustainable aviation fuels.

     (c)  The state energy office shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session on the status and progress of the Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program.

     (d)  For the purposes of this section:

     "Sustainable aviation fuels" means synthetic fuels, certain biofuels produced from agriculture or forestry residues, algae, biowaste, used cooking oil, certain animal fats, or recycled jet fuels from waste gases and waste plastic.  "Sustainable aviation fuels" excludes waste oils from palm and soy materials."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Hawaii State Energy Office; Sustainable Aviation Fuel; Greenhouse Gas Emissions

 

Description:

Establishes the Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program within the State Energy Office to work with the Department of Transportation and fuel suppliers in order to establish a sustainable fuel portfolio standard for the use of sustainable aviation fuels.

 

 

 

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