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HB64 • 2026

RELATING TO ELECTRIC BICYCLES.

RELATING TO ELECTRIC BICYCLES.

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Sponsor
SOUZA, PERRUSO
Last action
2025-12-08
Official status
Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Checked against official source text during the last sync.

Rules for Electric Bicycles

This bill sets rules about electric bicycles, including the minimum age to ride them and what information sellers must give buyers.

What This Bill Does

  • Raises the minimum age to ride a low-speed electric bicycle from fifteen to sixteen years old.
  • Does not allow anyone to sell or offer for sale any bicycle with a motor unless it is a low-speed electric bicycle.
  • Requires people who sell low-speed electric bicycles to give buyers information about how to safely use and follow laws related to these bikes.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who ride low-speed electric bicycles
  • Businesses that sell bicycles with motors

Terms To Know

Low-speed electric bicycle
A type of bicycle powered by a motor, following specific speed and design rules set by the U.S. government.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if someone breaks these new rules.
  • It is unclear how this will affect existing laws about bicycles in Hawaii.

Bill History

  1. 2025-12-08 D

    Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

  2. 2025-01-21 H

    Referred to TRN, CPC, referral sheet 1

  3. 2025-01-16 H

    Introduced and Pass First Reading.

  4. 2025-01-13 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

RELATING TO ELECTRIC BICYCLES.
Department of Transportation; Low-Speed Electric Bicycles; Requirements; Prohibitions
Increases the minimum age for use of low-speed electric bicycles. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of bicycles equipped with motors except low-speed electric bicycles. Requires sellers of low-speed electric bicycles to provide purchasers with educational materials.

Current Bill Text

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HB64

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

64

THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025

STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating
to Electric Bicycles
.

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

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Chapter 293, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read
as follows:

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Low-speed electric
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No person shall sell or offer for sale a bicycle equipped with a motor except
a low-speed electric bicycle.

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Any person selling a low-speed electric bicycle shall provide each
purchaser with educational materials that explain the safe operation and
applicable laws and regulations governing the use of low-speed electric
bicycles; provided that the department of transportation shall make available
to any person selling one or more low-speed electric bicycles any educational
materials to be provided pursuant to this subsection.

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As used in this section, "low-speed
electric bicycle" shall have the same meaning as in title 15 United States
Code section 2085.
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Section 291C-143.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
is amended to read as follows:

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Low-speed
electric bicycles; operator age.
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No
person under the age of [
fifteen
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sixteen
shall operate a
low-speed electric bicycle as defined under title 15 United States Code section
2085."

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This Act does not affect rights and
duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were
begun before its effective date.

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Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken.
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New statutory
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This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Department
of Transportation; Low-Speed Electric Bicycles; Requirements; Prohibitions

Description:

Increases
the minimum age for use of low-speed electric bicycles.
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Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of
bicycles equipped with motors except low-speed electric bicycles.
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Requires sellers of low-speed electric
bicycles to provide purchasers with educational materials.

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